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Steve Moore Books in Order

Steve Moore has written 13 books, published between 1989 and 2019. The first book is Born in the Bleachers: Sports Cartoons (1989) and the newest is It Only Laughs When I Hurt 2: Another In the Bleachers Collection of Painfully Funny Sports Injury Cartoons (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
1989–2019
Pages on record
1,814 in 11 of 13 books
Reading time
30–45 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,814 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

See all 13 books in order Printable Steve Moore checklist

Sports cartoon collections appear in the catalogue listed for Steve Moore, alongside the Bleachers and King of the Bench series. Born in the Bleachers: Sports Cartoons (1989) is the first title, and Back to the Bleachers: Baseball Cartoons (1996) and Dibs on His Clubs!: An In The Bleachers Golf Collection (2004) came later. Titles from 2017 and 2018 include Control Freak (2017), No Fear! (2017) and Comeback Kid (2018). Subjects include children's fiction, golf, baseball, phobias and middle school boys.

How many Steve Moore books are there?

Steve Moore has 13 books, released between 1989 and 2019. They include 2 series and 1 title listed outside any series.

Steve Moore Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Steve Moore books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Born in the Bleachers: Sports Cartoons by Steve Moore, book 1 of the Bleachers series (1989)
  2. Cover of Where Golfers Buy Their Pants and Other Collected Cartoons: Sports Cartoons by Steve Moore (1994)
  3. Cover of Back to the Bleachers: Baseball Cartoons by Steve Moore, book 3 of the Bleachers series (1996)
  4. Cover of The Best of In the Bleachers: A Classic Collection of Mental Errors by Steve Moore, book 4 of the Bleachers series
  5. Cover of Dibs on His Clubs!: An In The Bleachers Golf Collection by Steve Moore, book 5 of the Bleachers series (2004)
  6. Cover of No Fear! by Steve Moore, book 1 of the King of the Bench series (2017)
  7. Cover of Control Freak by Steve Moore, book 2 of the King of the Bench series (2017)
  1. 1
    Born in the Bleachers: Sports CartoonsBleachers #11989 · 95 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198995
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  2. 2
    Revolution in the Bleachers: More Sports CartoonsBleachers #21991 · 95 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199195
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Where Golfers Buy Their Pants and Other Collected Cartoons: Sports Cartoons1994 · 93 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199493
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Back to the Bleachers: Baseball CartoonsBleachers #31996 · 95 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199695
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    The Best of In the Bleachers: A Classic Collection of Mental ErrorsBleachers #42003 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003160
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Dibs on His Clubs!: An In The Bleachers Golf CollectionBleachers #52004 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Doctor Who Classics, Vol. 2Doctor Who Classics #22008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    No Fear!King of the Bench #12017 · 214 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017214
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Control FreakKing of the Bench #22017 · 211 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017211
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    KickingScreamingKing of the Bench #32018 · 166 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018166
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  11. 11
    Comeback KidKing of the Bench #42018 · 179 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018179
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  12. 12
    It Only Laughs When I Hurt: An In the Bleachers Collection of Painfully Funny Sports Injury CartoonsBleachers #62019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    It Only Laughs When I Hurt 2: Another In the Bleachers Collection of Painfully Funny Sports Injury CartoonsBleachers #72019 · 234 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019234
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Steve Moore books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Bleachers in order

7 books
  1. 1. Born in the Bleachers: Sports Cartoons
  2. 2. Revolution in the Bleachers: More Sports Cartoons
  3. 3. Back to the Bleachers: Baseball Cartoons
  4. 4. The Best of In the Bleachers: A Classic Collection of Mental Errors
  5. 5. Dibs on His Clubs!: An In The Bleachers Golf Collection
  6. 6. It Only Laughs When I Hurt: An In the Bleachers Collection of Painfully Funny Sports Injury Cartoons
  7. 7. It Only Laughs When I Hurt 2: Another In the Bleachers Collection of Painfully Funny Sports Injury Cartoons

King of the Bench in order

4 books
  1. 1. No Fear!
  2. 2. Control Freak
  3. 3. KickingScreaming
  4. 4. Comeback Kid

Doctor Who Classics in order

1 book
  1. 2. Doctor Who Classics, Vol. 2

Standalone books

1 book

1 Steve Moore title here is not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Steve Moore books in order?

You only need to read Steve Moore books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Steve Moore

Start with Born in the Bleachers: Sports Cartoons (1989), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Steve Moore book?

It Only Laughs When I Hurt 2: Another In the Bleachers Collection of Painfully Funny Sports Injury Cartoons (2019) is the newest Steve Moore book released so far.

Is there a new Steve Moore book coming?

No next Steve Moore book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Steve Moore at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Steve Moore title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Steve Moore books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,814 pages across the 11 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 166 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Steve Moore books, 6 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Steve Moore books are about

11 of the 13 Steve Moore books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: caricatures and cartoons is tagged on 6 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.