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Cleveland, OH – The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) announced recently that Red Sox Vs. Yankees co-author Harvey Frommer has been selected to deliver the keynote speech at the Seventh Annual Seymour Conference honoring the best book of baseball history or biography.  The conference will be held at the Radisson Gateway in Cleveland on May 13-15 and is sponsored by the Cleveland Indians.

“Harvey Frommer is an accomplished writer of sports, and brings a vast amount of experience in the art of the oral history, one of the many tools at the disposal of the historian. From his Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball to his latest work on the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, Frommer shows that he is a baseball writer and historian of repute,” said SABR executive director John Zajc. 

Mr. Frommer, who co-authored Red Sox Vs. Yankees with his son, Fredric J. Frommer, is the author of 34 other sports books, including:

·         The New York Yankee Encyclopedia

·         New York City Baseball,

·         Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Line

·         A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team. 

The Seymour Medal, named in honor of Dr. Harold Seymour and Dorothy Jane Mills (formerly Seymour), is awarded to the book judged the best work of baseball history or biography in the preceding year. The Seymour Medal Conference, held annually, attempts to continue the promotion of baseball scholarship begun by its namesakes, and to celebrate fine baseball writing in all forms. Finalists for the award are scheduled to be announced in mid-April.

Online registration for the conference is available through the SABR Store.  For more information or to have a conference registration form sent to you, contact the SABR office at info@sabr.org.

SABR (pronounced “Saber”) is an international organization headquartered in Cleveland, OH. The Society's mission is to foster the study of baseball, to assist in developing and maintaining the history of the game, to facilitate the dissemination of baseball research and to stimulate interest in baseball.

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