Society For American Baseball Research - Awards

Awards

SABR annual awards include:

• Bob Davids Award: for exceptional SABR members who have made contributions to SABR and baseball that reflect ingenuity, integrity, and self-sacrifice. It is SABR's highest honor, and was established in 1985.
• Henry Chadwick Award: for baseball researchers—historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists.
• Seymour Medal: best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year.
• McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award: for authors of the best articles on baseball history or biography completed during the preceding calendar year (published or unpublished).
• Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award: for projects which do not fit the criteria for The Seymour Medal or the McFarland-SABR Award.
• Jerry Malloy Book Prize: best book-length nonfiction manuscript submitted by a member of SABR.
• Doug Pappas Research Award: best oral research presentation at the Annual Convention.
• Lee Allen Award: for the best baseball research project at the annual National History Day competition.
• Jack Kavanagh Memorial Youth Baseball Research Award: research paper by a researcher in grades 6–8 (middle school category), grades 9–12 (high school category), or undergraduates 22 and under (College Category).