Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award (Women in Baseball)
In 2017, SABR’s Women in Baseball Committee established the Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award — “The Dorothy” — named in honor of Dorothy Seymour Mills and her lifetime of contributions to promoting women’s baseball.
Eligible candidates include any person with a sustained involvement in women’s baseball or any woman with a longtime involvement in baseball in any fashion — player, umpire, writer, executive, team owner, scout, etc. Candidates do not have to be living; it can be awarded posthumously. Self-nominations are accepted.
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2025 finalists
Here are the finalists for the 2025 Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award:
- Jean Hastings Ardell
- Maud Nelson
- Lisa Turbitt
The winner will be announced during the 2025 SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference on September 19-21. All baseball fans are welcome to attend the virtual conference.
Award winners
- 2024: Barbara Gregorich
- 2023: Maybelle Blair
- 2022: Justine Siegal
- 2021: Claire Smith
- 2020: Effa Manley
- 2019: Rachel Robinson
- 2018: Perry Barber