Gary Belleville, Tom Reinsfelder, William Weinbaum win 2026 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Awards
The 2026 winners of the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, which honors the best articles on baseball history or biography completed or published during the preceding calendar year, are:
- Gary Belleville, “September 13, 1897: The Washington Ladies’ Day Riot that never was,” SABR Games Project, July 25, 2025
- Tom Reinsfelder, “Some of the Least Explored Resources: Dissertations and Theses on the Subject of Baseball (1908–2024),” SABR Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2025
- William Weinbaum, “‘He was a legend’: An oral history of Satchel Paige’s final game at 59,” Andscape, February 28, 2025
Belleville is a retired information technology professional from Victoria, British Columbia, and a SABR member since 2007. Reinsfelder is the Distinguished Librarian at Penn State University and a SABR member since 2022. Weinbaum is a producer and digital journalist at ESPN, and a SABR member since 2021.
The McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award honors the author(s) of the best articles or papers, published or unpublished, on baseball history or biography completed during the preceding calendar year. Eligible works include magazine and journal articles, previously unpublished chapters or articles in anthologies or other books with multiple authors, and unpublished research papers and written versions of oral presentations.
The selection committee included Roberta J. Newman (chair), Stephanie Liscio, and Allen Tait.
For a complete list of winners of the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, click here.
Originally published: March 19, 2026. Last Updated: March 18, 2026.