Wisconsin student wins 2013 SABR Lee Allen History of Baseball Award
SABR is pleased to announce the winner of the Lee Allen History of Baseball Award for 2013.
Grace Olson of Lincoln Middle School in La Crosse, Wisconsin, won the Lee Allen History of Baseball Award for her junior individual exhibit, “The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.”
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 http://www.nhd.org/SpecialPrizeinfo.htm.
Originally published: June 28, 2013. Last Updated: June 28, 2013.