Bevis, Nagata, Fitts, Brunke, Racanelli win 2023 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Awards
The 2023 winners of the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, which honors the best articles on baseball history or biography completed or published during the preceding calendar year, are:
- Charlie Bevis, “Four Girls in Spring 1974: The First Foot-Soldiers of Female Inclusion in Little League Baseball,” SABR Baseball Research Journal, Spring 2022
- Yoichi Nagata, Robert K. Fitts, and Mark Brunke, “The 1921 Native American Tours of Japan,” Nichibei Yakyu: US Tours of Japan, Volume 1: 1907-1958 (SABR, 2022)
- John Racanelli, “Death and Taxes and Baseball Card Litigation,” SABR Baseball Cards Blog, January 8-December 14, 2022
Bevis is a retired adjunct professor of English at Rivier University in Nashua, New Hampshire, and a member of SABR since 1984. He is the author of eight books on baseball history.
Nagata, a SABR member for more than 40 years, is the author of books on Japanese-American outfielder Jimmy Horio, the Tokyo Giants’ 1935 tour of North America, baseball at World War II internment camps, and others. Fitts is a three-time winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award, the founder of SABR’s Asian Baseball Committee, and the author of seven books on Japanese baseball. Brunke is the chapter secretary for Pacific Northwest SABR, a member of SABR’s Origins of Baseball Committee, and a contributor to Protoball.org.
Racanelli is a lawyer from Chicago, member of SABR’s Emil Rothe Chicago Chapter, and co-chair of the Baseball Landmarks Committee.
The McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award honors the author(s) of the best articles or papers, published or unpublished, on baseball history or biography completed during the preceding calendar year. Eligible works include magazine and journal articles, previously unpublished chapters or articles in anthologies or other books with multiple authors, and unpublished research papers and written versions of oral presentations.
The selection committee included Tom Hufford (chair), Barbara Mantegani, Stephanie Liscio, and Don Zminda.
For a complete list of winners of the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, click here.
Originally published: May 18, 2023. Last Updated: May 17, 2023.