
David W. Smith
David W. Smith (1948- ) founded Retrosheet in 1989 and has been…

Ray Nemec
Ray Nemec (1929-2015) had already spent 30 years traveling throughout…

F.C. Lane
Ferdinand Cole "F.C." Lane (1896-1984) was the editor and a prolific…

Tom Heitz
Tom Heitz (1940- ) was the National Baseball Hall of Fame…

Robert Creamer
Robert Creamer (1922-2012), a prolific baseball writer whose…

J.G. Taylor Spink
J.G. Taylor Spink (1888-1962) occupied a command post in the…

Clifford S. Kachline
Clifford S. Kachline (1921-2010) left an indelible mark on the…

John B. Holway
John B. Holway (1929-2024) researched baseball for more than…

Sean Forman
Sean Forman (1972- ) launched Baseball-Reference.com, now baseball’s…

Charles Alexander
Charles C. Alexander (1935- ) began his career as a baseball…
2003 Lee Allen Award Winner
Alexander Hearn of Indianapolis, Indiana won the 2003 Lee Allen…
2004 Lee Allen Award Winner
Corissa Westergard, Shelby Johnson, and Mackenzie Heyl of Davenport,…
2006 Lee Allen Award Winner
The 2006 winner of the Lee Allen History of Baseball Special…

Bob Davids Award: David Vincent
The 1999 winner of SABR's highest honor, the Bob Davids Award,…

Lee Allen
Lee Allen (1915-1969) once said, “I care very little for statistics…

Bob Davids
Bob Davids (1926-2002) was the founder of SABR, the Society for…

Bill James
Bill James (1949- ) is the best known baseball analyst in the…

Peter Morris
Peter Morris (1962- ) Although he came to prominence by winning…

David Neft
David S. Neft (1936- ) was the driving force behind The Baseball…

Pete Palmer
Pete Palmer (1938- ) A mathematician and analyst; an encyclopedist…

Lawrence S. Ritter
Lawrence S. Ritter (1922-2004), an economics professor at New…

Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills
Harold Seymour (1910-1992) and Dorothy Seymour Mills (1928-2019):…

Jules Tygiel
Jules Tygiel (1949-2008) made his most lasting research contribution…

Bob Davids Award: Lyle Spatz
The winner of the Bob Davids Award for the year 2000 is Lyle…