Three such journals--Spitball, Fan, and Elysian Fields Quarterly (previously known as the Minneapolis Review of Baseball)--demonstrate that the literature of baseball, like the game itself, can be found in abundance and splendor at a grass-roots level.
Over the years Spitball, Fan, and Elysian Fields Quarterly (EFQ)--as well as the latter's predecessor, the Minneapolis Review of Baseball (MRB)--have been the three predominant baseball literary journals, publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction on baseball.
Spitball, Elysian Fields Quarterly, and Fan, while unique in their perspectives and individual visions, all share a common outlook on the game of baseball.
The Casey Award was the first such annual award recognizing books exclusively related to baseball, predating the Society for American Baseball Research's Seymour Medal and Elysian Fields Quarterly's Dave Moore award by several years.
Over the years MRB--and Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review, as the journal was renamed in 1992--has displayed an eclectic personality, featuring pieces on baseball from the point of view of fiction, poetry, history, philosophy, economics, satire, politics, art, and business.
Beginning in 1992 MRB became known as Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review.
Spitball, Fan, Elysian Fields Quarterly, and the Minneapolis Review of Baseball are a special, distinct component in the realm of baseball culture for several reasons.
Subscription information for Elysian Fields Quarterly can be found at http://www.efqreview.com.
"Mission Statement of the Elysian Fields Quarterly," Elysian Fields Quarterly 11, no.