SABR Overlooked 19th Century Base Ball Legends
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; stay tuned for more details on the online election later this spring. The winners are announced at the Nineteenth Century Committee’s annual meeting at the SABR convention.
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.
Here are the previous Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legends:
- 2024: Chris Von der Ahe
- 2023: Bobby Mathews
- 2022: Moses Fleetwood Walker
- 2021: Charlie Bennett
- 2020: Bud Fowler (elected to Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022)
- 2019: Jim Creighton
- 2018: William Hoy
- 2017: Bob Caruthers
- 2016: Jack Glasscock
- 2015: Tony Mullane
- 2014: Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams
- 2013: Ross Barnes
- 2012: Bill Dahlen
- 2011: Harry Stovey
- 2010: Deacon White (elected to Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013)
- 2009: Pete Browning
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For more information on the Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legends Project, contact project co-chairs Adam Darowski or Joe Williams, or visit the project’s Facebook page.