2010 The Sporting News-SABR Award Winners Announced
The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award, which recognizes outstanding baseball research in areas other than history and biography, has been awarded for the following books:
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Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson, written by Timothy M. Gay and published by Simon & Schuster
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Evaluating Baseball’s Managers: A History and Analysis of Performance in the Major Leagues, 1876–2008, written by Chris Jaffe and published by McFarland
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New Mexico Baseball: Miners, Outlaws, Indians and Isotopes, 1880 to the Present, written by L.M. Sutter and published by McFarland
The authors will receive their awards at the SABR 41 national convention, July 6-10 at the Long Beach Hilton in Southern California. The Sporting News sponsors the $200 cash awards that accompany the honor.
Gay is the author of Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend (University of Nebraska Press, 2006). His essays and articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, USA Today, and many other publications. Tim is a graduate of Georgetown University and lives in northern Virginia with his wife and three children.
Jaffe is an instructor of history and a columnist for the The Hardball Times. He lives in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Sutter also won The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award last year, for her book Ball, Bat and Bitumen: A History of Coalfield Baseball in the Appalachian South (McFarland). She is an artist, writer and baseball fan. A member of SABR, she lives in southwest Virginia.
The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award is designed to honor projects that do not fit the criteria for The Seymour Medal or the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award.
The selection committee consists of: Steve Gietschier (non-voting chair), Monte Cely, Andrew Goldblatt and Monica Nucciarone.
To submit a nomination for the 2011 awards, which will be presented at the SABR 42 national convention in 2012, please send the work’s title, author and publisher information to Steve Gietschier.
To see a complete list of The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award winners, click here.
Originally published: May 5, 2011. Last Updated: May 5, 2011.