The Seymour Medal
The Seymour Medal, named in honor of Dr. Harold Seymour and Mrs. Dorothy (Seymour) Mills, honors the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year.
Not more than one Seymour Medal shall be given each year. If, in the judgment of the awards committee, a worthy candidate cannot be found, no medal shall be awarded.
The first three Medals were awarded at the SABR National Convention. In 1999, SABR held the first Seymour Medal Conference at Cleveland State University in conjunction with the awarding of the medal.
The selection committee consists of: Dick Beverage (chair), Paul Adomites and John Burbridge.
All Seymour Medal-winning books can be purchased at the SABR Bookstore.
To view more detailed criteria on selecting the Seymour Medal winners, click here.
Please note: No research project will be considered for more than one SABR Research Award.
2013 award nominations
To submit a nomination for the 2013 awards, for books released during the 2012 calendar year, please send back this downloadable nominating form plus THREE (3) copies of the work to:
E-mail: RBeverage@aol.com
or
Mail: Dick Beverage, 420 Robinson Cir, Placentia, CA 92870-1518
Seymour Medal winners
- 2012: Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year, by Glenn Stout (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- 2011: 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York, by Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg (University of Nebraska Press)
- 2010: Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye (Random House)
- 2009: Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star, by Tom Swift (University of Nebraska Press)
- 2008: Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman, by Lee Lowenfish (University of Nebraska Press)
- 2007: A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, (two-volume set) by Peter Morris (Ivan R. Dee)
- 2006: Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game, by David Block (University of Nebraska Press)
- 2005: Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution, by Neil Lanctot (University of Pennsylvania Press)
- 2004: Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan, by Peter Morris (University of Michigan Press)
- 2003: Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era, by Charles C. Alexander (Columbia University Press)
- 2002: Early Baseball and the Rise of the National League, by Tom Melville (McFarland)
- 2001: Past Time: Baseball as History, by Jules Tygiel (Oxford University Press)
- 2000: Baseball's Pivotal Era: 1945-1951, by William Marshall (The University Press of Kentucky)
- 1999: Baseball's Last Dynasty: Charlie Finley's Oakland A's, by Bruce Markusen (Masters Press)
- 1998: The Detroit Tigers: Club and Community, 1945-95, by Patrick Harrigan (University of Toronto Press)
- 1997: Honus Wagner, the Life of Baseball's "Flying Dutchman", by Arthur D. Hittner (McFarland)
- 1996: Fleet Walker's Divided Heart, by David Zang (University of Nebraska Press)
