Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award Winners

2009
Robert M. Gorman (Rock Hill, SC) and David Weeks (Rock Hill, SC) for Death at the Ballpark: A Comprehensive Study of Game-Related Fatalities, 1862-2007 (McFarland)
Dennis Pajot (Milwaukee, WI) for The Rise of Milwaukee Baseball: The Cream City from Midwestern Outpost to the Major Leagues, 1859-1901 (McFarland); and
L.M. Sutter (Norton, VA) for Ball, Bat and Bitumen: A History of Coalfield Baseball in the Appalachian South (McFarland).

2008
Ron Selter for Ballparks of the Deadball Era
Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson and Tim Wiles for Baseball's Greatest Hit
Jim Walker and Rob Bellamy for Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on
Television

2007
Paul DeBono, The Chicago American Giants (McFarland)
Bill Felber, A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant (University of Nebraska Press)
William F. McNeil, Black Baseball Out of Season: Pay for Play Outside the Negro Leagues (McFarland)

2006
John Dewan, The Fielding Bible (ACTA Sports)
Ed Koszarek, The Players League: History, Clubs, Ballplayers, and Statistics (McFarland)
Jeff Sackmann, for research found at his Web site, www.minorleaguesplits.com

2005
Will Carroll, The Juice (Ivan R. Dee)
Robert K. Fitts, Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game (Southern Illinois University Press)
Steven R. Hoffbeck, Swinging for the Fences: Black Baseball in Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press)

2004

Peter Bjarkman, Diamonds Around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball (Greenwood Press)
Timothy A Johnson, Baseball and the Music of Charles Ives: A Proving Ground (Scarecrow Press)
Rob Neyer and Bill James, The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (Simon and Schuster)

2003

Mark Armour and Dan Levitt, Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way (Brassey's Inc.)
Jim Vitti, The Cubs on Catalina (Settefrati Press)

2002

Larry Lester, Baseball's Black Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953 (U of Nebraska Press)
Joseph Reaves, Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia (U of Nebraska Press)

2001

Jim Albert and Jay Bennett, Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics and the Role of Chance in the Game (Copernicus)
David Vincent, Lyle Spatz, and David W. Smith, The Mid-Summer Classic (U of Nebraska Press)
Greg Rhodes and John Snyder, Redleg Journal (Road West)

2000

Joel Hawkins and Terry Bertolino, The House of David Baseball Team (Arcadia)
Tom Simon, Burlington, VT, representing the Gardner-Waterman Chapter of SABR, The Green Mountain Boys of Summer (New England Press)

1999

Greg Rhodes and Mark Stang, Reds in Black and White (Road West)
Bob Tiemann for research on attendance in the National Association, 1871-1875, published in the sixth edition of Total Baseball (Total Sports)

1998

Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund, editors, Jackie Robinson: Race Sports, and the American Dream (M.E. Sharpe)
Chris Holaday, Professional Baseball in North Carolina: An Illustrated City-by-City History, 1901-1996 (McFarland)
Marshall D. Wright, The International League: Year-By-Year Statistics, 1884-1953 (McFarland)

1997

Joseph Dittmar, Baseball Records Registry: The Best and Worst Single-Day Performances and the Stories Behind Them (McFarland)
Jonathan Fraser Light, The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball (McFarland)
David Nemec, The Great Encyclopedia of 19th Century Major League Baseball (Donald I. Fine Books)

1996

Dan Gutman, The Way Baseball Works (Simon and Schuster)
Richard Orodenker, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century American Sportswriters (Gale Research)
Frederick Ivor-Campbell, Robert L. Tiemann and Mark Rucker, editors, Baseball's First Stars (SABR)

1995

George W. Hilton, The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919 (Stanford Univ. Press)
Dan Gutman, Banana Bats and Ding-Dong Balls: A Century of Baseball Inventions (Macmillan)
John Benson and Tony Blengino, Baseball's Top 100: The Best Individual Seasons of All-Time (Diamond Library)