Former Major League Umpire Jim Evans fields questions after his SABR 33 keynote speech.

Awards

The convention’s premier honor, the Bob Davids award, went to Fred Ivor-Campbell (see news release). Because Fred was unable to attend, Len Levin accepted the award on his behalf. When Bob Davids Award Committee member David Vincent called Fred to give him the good news, he fell silent for some time and reported his hands as shaking. Vincent told him that was the normal reaction.

Peter Morris won the USA Today Sports Weekly prize for Best Oral Presentation for his “The Origin of the Word Fan”. Winning USA Today Sports Weekly prize for Best Research Poster Presentation was John Jarvis for his “Trends, Exceptions and Results of IBB Usage”

Winning the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research award this year were Frank Ardolino for "Missionaries, Cartwright and Spalding;" Ron Briley for his research involved in "In the Tradition of Jackie Robinson: Ozzie Virgil and the Integration of the Detroit Tigers;" and Jim McConnell for "Dahlgren, You’re in There." The McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award honors the authors of the best articles or papers, published or unpublished, on baseball history or biography completed during the preceding calendar year.

Larry Lester and Joseph Reaves received this year’s Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research award for outstanding research projects completed during the preceding calendar year have significantly expanded our knowledge or understanding of baseball. Lester won for research he did to produce his book, Black Baseball’s National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953 and Reaves won for research included in his book, Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia. Both books are available through University of Nebraska Press.