Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review is pleased to announce the winner of the second annual Dave Moore Award for the "most important baseball book" of 2000, as selected by our panel of judges:

Havana Heat
by Darryl Brock

Our congratulations to Mr. Brock and Total / Sports Illustrated!

About the Author:
A former History and English instructor, Darryl Brock previously wrote the acclaimed novel, If I Never Get Back, a 1990 bestseller that one reviewer recently described as "[o] ne of the finest pieces of baseball fiction to ever reach the reading public . . ." Mr. Brock, having also lived in Spain and Oregon, is a thirty-year resident of the Bay Area, and shares his home in Berkeley, California, with his wife, actress-teacher Lura Dolas, and their aged poodle, Sophie, who inexplicably seems to have become a football fan.

Publisher: Total / Sports Illustrated www.ts-pub.com

Date published: Spring, 2000

Length: 304 pages

Format: cloth

Price: $24.95

Congratulations to the other authors and publishers who were among the finalists for the 2000 Dave Moore Award, and a special thank you to Robert Dodge, Seth Forman, Elizabeth Frank, Bill Meiners, and Rick Wilber for lending their time and talents while serving as judges for this year's award.