Kevin Baker’s ‘The New York Game’ wins 2025 SABR Ron Gabriel Award
SABR is pleased to announce that The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City, by Kevin Baker and published by Knopf, has been selected as the winner of the Ron Gabriel Award in 2025.
The Ron Gabriel Award, given out by SABR’s Casey Stengel Chapter in New York, honors the author(s) of the best research, published or unpublished, on the subject of the Brooklyn Dodgers completed during the preceding calendar year. Eligible works include, but are not limited to, magazine and journal articles, previously unpublished chapters or articles in anthologies or other books with multiple authors, unpublished research papers, written versions of oral presentations, books, databases and websites.
The Ron Gabriel Award Committee is looking for new committee members and accepting nominations for future awards. If you want to join the team or submit a nomination for a work completed or published in 2025, please contact Gary Sarnoff.
Ron Gabriel (1941-2009), a native of Brooklyn, New York, and longtime resident of Bethesda, Maryland, was a former Vice President of SABR and instrumental in establishing the Bob Davids Chapter, which serves the Washington-Baltimore region. He was founder and president of the Brooklyn Dodger Fan Club, and a charter elected member of the Brooklyn Dodger Hall of Fame. Gabriel, who earned his Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from American University, was a retired U.S. Government executive, having served with the Postal Service Management Institute, the Department of Defense and the General Services Administration.
For a list of past award winners, click here.
Originally published: December 31, 2025. Last Updated: May 28, 2026.