Henry Chadwick Award: Jerry Malloy
Jerry Malloy (1946-2000) was a pioneer researcher who has been honored by the creation of an annual Negro League Conference named for him, as well as a book prize. His first great contribution to baseball history was “Out at Home: Baseball Draws the Color Line, 1887.” This monumentally important essay, published in The National Pastime in 1983, transformed our understanding of black baseball and won commendation from C. Vann Woodward, the preeminent historian of American race relations. Malloy’s subsequent work included a contextual republication of Sol White’s History of Colored Baseball with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886–1936. The late Jules Tygiel, also a Chadwick Award recipient, said of him, “His articles for SABR were pathbreaking and exceptional and rank among the very best this organization has ever published. Even more so, I doubt that the best among us have ever been as generous with their research and support as was Jerry.”
Related links:
- Read John Thorn’s profile of Jerry Malloy in the Spring 2015 Baseball Research Journal
- Learn more about SABR’s Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference at SABR.org/malloy
- Read “Out at Home: Baseball Draws the Color Line, 1887,” by Jerry Malloy (Our Game)
- Read the SABR biography of black baseball pioneer Sol White, by Jay Hurd