Vote now for 2024 SABR Overlooked 19th Century Legend of the Year
Each year, SABR’s Nineteenth Century Research Committee selects its Overlooked 19th Century Base Ball Legend — a 19th century player, manager, executive or other baseball personality not yet inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
All SABR members are eligible to cast a vote for the winner. The winner will be announced this summer during the Nineteenth Century Committee’s business meeting at SABR 52 in Minneapolis.
Bud Fowler, SABR’s 2020 Overlooked Legend, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was honored on Induction Day in 2022. The Hall of Fame’s Classic Baseball Era Committee, which votes on eligible candidates for induction whose greatest contributions to the game were realized prior to 1980, is next scheduled to vote in December 2024.
- 2024 finalists: Earlier this year, committee members selected the 12 finalists for the 2024 Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legend. Click here to view the finalists’ bios, compiled by project co-chairs Adam Darowski and Joe Williams. Voting in the final election will run until July 15, and will be open to all SABR members.
- Vote now! Click here to access the 2024 ballot. All SABR members are eligible to vote in the election for this year’s Overlooked 19th Century Legend. You *MUST* select five candidates — ranking them from first choice to fifth choice — from among the candidates presented. You are only allowed to vote once. ALL BALLOTS MUST BE CAST PRIOR TO 11:59 p.m. PDT on Monday, July 15, 2024.
Click here for a list of past winners or to learn more about the project.
Originally published: June 23, 2024. Last Updated: June 24, 2024.