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Robert Franklin founded McFarland and Company in 1979. He remains connected to the company as President Emeritus, while Rhonda Herman now serves as president and Steve Wilson serves as Editor-in-Chief.
McFarland and Company is based in Jefferson, North Carolina. The independent publisher has maintained this location since its founding in 1979.
McFarland and Company had published approximately 7,800 titles as of available records. The company produces around 350 new scholarly monographs and reference titles each year, with initial print runs averaging 600 copies per book.
McFarland and Company is known for sports literature, especially baseball history, as well as chess, military history, and film. The company primarily serves libraries and uses direct mail to reach niche enthusiast audiences.
The McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award is an annual prize presented by the Society for American Baseball Research to authors of the best articles on baseball history or biography from the preceding calendar year. The award was previously called the Macmillan-SABR Baseball Research Award from 1987 to 2000 before McFarland became the sponsoring publisher.
McFarland and Company publishes several scholarly journals, including Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues, Clues: A Journal of Detection, Journal of Information Ethics, Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, and North Korean Review.