| Larry Tye Wins Seymour Medal for "Satchel" |
| For Immediate Release March 08, 2010 |
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The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is pleased to announce that Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye (Random House), has been named the winner of the 2010 Seymour Medal.
In Satchel, Tye provides an exhaustively well-researched look at one of the most intriguing personalities of the 20th century. One of twelve children born to an Alabama washerwoman, Paige earned the nickname “Satchel” as a child while working as a railroad porter. Tye takes the reader through Paige’s introduction to baseball in reform school, the years he spent setting unbelievable records in the Negro Leagues, his major league debut at an age when most players are on the verge of retirement, and his life after baseball. The Seymour Medal selection committee said of the book that it’s “Written about a man who died 30 years ago, but it’s like he’s walking through the pages of this book.” Satchel was also a 2009 New York Times Notable Book.
Tye will receive his award at the Seymour Medal Conference, April 30-May 2 at the Radisson Hotel, Gateway, in Cleveland, Ohio. The Conference begins with a reception on Friday evening, April 30, at the Baseball Heritage Museum 530 Euclid Avenue. Veteran baseball writer Lisa Winston is scheduled to deliver the keynote address.
The Seymour Medal, named in honor of Dr. Harold Seymour and Dorothy Jane Mills (Seymour), is awarded each spring to the best book of baseball biography or history published in the previous calendar year. In addition to Satchel, the other finalists for this year’s award were After Many a Summer, by Robert E. Murphy (Union Square Press) and Yogi Berra, Eternal Yankee, by Allen Barra (W.W. Norton). This year’s Seymour Medal Committee members included Peter Buckingham, Larry Gerlach, and John Burbridge. The Seymour Medal Conference is presented with the generous support of the Cleveland Indians Baseball Club.
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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