Bob Davids Award
The Bob Davids Award honors SABR members whose contributions to SABR and baseball reflect the ingenuity, integrity, and self-sacrifice of the founder and past president of SABR, L. Robert “Bob” Davids. Voluntary activities in the area of administration and research are among those contributions considered.
SABR’s highest honor, the Bob Davids Award was established by the Board of Directors in 1985, and is awarded each year at the annual convention. Learn more about Bob Davids at the SABR BioProject or on our SABR Founders page.
Below is a list of previous award winners.
Award Winners
- 2024: D. Bruce Brown
- 2023: Neal Traven
- 2022: F.X. Flinn
- 2021: Vince Gennaro
- 2020: Peter Mancuso
- 2019: Bill Lamb
- 2018: Larry McCray
- 2017: Larry Lester
- 2016: Stew Thornley
- 2015: Dan Levitt
- 2014: Leslie Heaphy
- 2013: Dick Beverage
- 2012: Jan Finkel
- 2011: Bill Nowlin
- 2010: Mark Rucker
- 2009: Tom Ruane
- 2008: Mark Armour
- 2007: Andy McCue
- 2006: John Thorn
- 2005: David W. Smith
- 2004: Dick Thompson
- 2003: Frederick Ivor-Campbell
- 2002: Evelyn Begley
- 2001: Larry Gerlach
- 2000: Lyle Spatz
- 1999: David Vincent
- 1998: John Pardon
- 1997: Len Levin
- 1996: Jack Kavanagh
- 1995: Cliff Kachline
- 1994: A.D. Suehsdorf
- 1993: Bill Carle
- 1992: Robert Tiemann
- 1991: Frank Phelps
- 1990: John Holway
- 1989: Pete Palmer
- 1988: E. Vern Luse
- 1987: Robert Hoie
- 1986: Joseph Simenic
- 1985: Robert McConnell