Barbara Gregorich selected as 2024 SABR Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Author and historian Barbara Gregorich was honored on Saturday, September 21, 2024, with the Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award during the SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference.
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.
Gregorich is the author of Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball, which won the MacMillan-SABR Research Award in 1993. She has also produced three volumes of notes about her work, Research Notes for Women at Play (2010, 2013, and 2015), which have been invaluable for other researchers. She grew up in a small town in Ohio before earning a B.A. at Kent State University and an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin. Her first novel was She’s On First in 1987 and she has written many other books since. In 2012, she authored Jack and Larry, about Jack Graney of the Cleveland Indians and his dog Larry.
In 2016 she donated all of her research materials from Women at Play to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library. She has also written a wide range of articles on topics such as Jackie Mitchell, Bloomer Girl teams, and Maud Nelson, among others. She has also delivered a presentation called “When Women Played Baseball” all over the country, and continues to be an active scholar and mentor.
In addition to Gregorich, the other finalists for the 2024 award were author and historian Jean Hastings Ardell; professional umpire Lisa Turbitt; and Maud Nelson, early 20th-century star pitcher and promoter.
Click here for a list of previous award recipients.
Originally published: September 21, 2024. Last Updated: September 21, 2024.