North Carolina student wins 2023 Lee Allen History of Baseball Award
SABR is pleased to announce the winner of the Lee Allen History of Baseball Award for 2023.
Amy Snively of Cary, North Carolina, was the recipient of a Lee Allen History of Baseball Award for her senior paper, “Much More than a Box Score: Larry Doby’s Integration of the American League and the Destruction of Black Baseball.” Click here to read the winning paper.
Since 1996, SABR has honored the best baseball research project at the National History Day competition, an annual event in which students compete on a regional basis, followed by state competition, and then national finals at the University of Maryland.
The award is named in honor of Lee Allen, the historian at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum from 1950 to 1969. To view a list of past winners, click here.
For more information on National History Day, visit https://nhd.org/en/contest/national-contest/additional-special-prizes/.
Originally published: June 29, 2023. Last Updated: June 29, 2023.