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SABR recently announced the winners of The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award and The McFarland-SABR Baseball Research award.
The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award honors those individuals whose outstanding research projects completed during the preceding calendar year have significantly expanded our knowledge or understanding of baseball. It has been awarded annually since 1995 and each winner receives a plaque and a cash award, sponsored by The Sporting News. Nominations for the award are sought beginning in October.
This year’s Sporting News winners are:
- Mark Armour and Dan Levitt for the research they did to produce their book, Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way
- Jim Vitti for the research he did to produce his book, The Cubs on Catalina.
Thanks to members of this year’s TSN selection committee, Neal Traven, Leslie Heaphy, and Ron Kaplan.
The McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award honors the authors of the best articles or papers, published or unpublished, on baseball history or biography completed during the preceding calendar year. Eligible works include magazine and journal articles, previously unpublished chapters or articles in anthologies or other books with multiple authors, unpublished research papers and written versions of oral presentations. Authors honored for unpublished work may not later receive a SABR research award for that work (or work that is substantially the same) in published form.
This year’s McFarland winners are:
- Charlie Bevis for: "Evolution of the Sunday Doubleheader and Its Role in Elevating the Popularity of Baseball" presented at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in June 2003. Judges commented, "It covered an important subject and it explained aspects of scheduling that I was not cognizant of. They have become dinosaurs in today's game."
- Robert H. Schaefer, for: "The Great Baseball Match of 1858, Base Ball’s First All-Star Game," which is currently unpublished. Of this article, judges said, "Well researched and told with an eye on the larger picture."
- Bob Gorman and David Weeks, for: "Foul Play, Fan Fatalities in Twentieth-Century Organized Baseball" published in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture (Vol 12 # 1) Fall 2003. Judges called this work a "well-researched and well-written article about an unusual aspect of the game. Compared to sports in other countries we are remarkably well-behaved as a sporting public, though that appears to be changing."
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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