* Announcement: Branch Rickey bio wins SABR Award

May 16, 2008

Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman has been awarded the Seymour Medal as the best baseball history or biography of 2007.

Also recognized as “finalists” were Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball by Norman Macht and Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line by Adrian Burgos, Jr.

Author Lee Lowenfish will receive the honor at an Awards Breakfast during the 2008 SABR convention on Sunday, June 29 in Cleveland.

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.

You can read the press release, which links to previous Seymour winners, here.

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1 * BaseballinDC May 18, 2008 at 9:14 am

I’m delighted to see this book honored. It was truly exceptional. I cannot say it is better than the others, since I haven’t read them, but this bio is among the very best books I’ve ever read. Lowenfish goes beyond basic facts to truly understand how Rickey viewed the world. The result is a compelling portrait.

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