SABR announces Chadwick Award winners

March 9, 2022

James E. Brunson III, Jane Leavy, and Daniel Okrent have been named recipients of the Society for American Baseball Research’s esteemed Henry Chadwick Award, “established to honor the game’s great researchers … for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past.”

Bethesda Interview: Jane LeavyLeavy is the author of biographies about three of the games iconic figures in The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, and Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, and The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created for which she won the Seymour Medal in 2019. (Here are our Bookshelf Conversations on the Ruth book and the Mantle/Koufax projects.)

Play Ball - DBusiness MagazineOkrent published the wonderfully entertaining collection The Ultimate Baseball Book, originally in 1979 with an update in 2000. He also released one of those single-contest analyses in Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game in 2000. And if that’s not enough, he is also credited as one of the “founding fathers” of what we now know as fantasy baseball.

Black Baseball, 1858-1900: A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires: Brunson III, James E.: 9780786494170: Amazon.com: BooksBrunson published the three-volume Black Baseball, 1858-1900: A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires in 2019.

Mazel tov to the worthy honorees.

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