Seymour Medal

Given by Society for American Baseball Researchers

112 oeuvres 7,782 Livres 180 critiques ½ 3.9

The Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal honors the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year.

Stages:
Tous, Winner (28), Finalist (84)
Années:
Tous, 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (3), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (4), 2016 (4), 2015 (4), 2014 (4), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2011 (4), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3), 2007 (5), 2006 (4), 2005 (3), 2004 (5), 2003 (7), 2002 (4), 2001 (4), 2000 (7), 1999 (6), 1998 (5), 1997 (5), 1996 (5)

Winner 28

ŒuvreAnnée
Intentional Balk: Baseball's Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating par Daniel Levitt2023
Forty Years a Giant: The Life of Horace Stoneham par Steven Treder2022
Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between par Eric Nusbaum2021
Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player par Jeremy Beer2020
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created par Jane Leavy2019
City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles par Jerald Podair2018
The Eighth Wonder of the World: The Life of Houston's Iconic Astrodome par Robert C. Trumpbour2017
Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius par Bill Pennington2016
Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion par Andy McCue2015
Smoky Joe Wood: The Biography of a Baseball Legend par Gerald C. Wood2014
Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan par Robert K. Fitts2013
Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year par Glenn Stout2012
1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York par Lyle Spatz2011
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend par Larry Tye2010
Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star par Tom Swift2009
Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman par Lee Lowenfish2008
A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball Volume 1: The Game on the Field par Peter Morris2007
Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game par David Block2006
Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution par Neil Lanctot2005
Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan par Peter Morris2004
Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era par Charles C. Alexander2003
Early Baseball and the Rise of the National League par Tom Melville2002
Past Time: Baseball As History par Jules Tygiel2001
Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 par William Marshall2000
Baseball's Last Dynasty: Charlie Finley's Oakland A's par Bruce Markusen1999
The Detroit Tigers: Club and Community, 1945-1995 par Patrick Harrigan1998
Honus Wagner: The Life of Baseball's "Flying Dutchman" par Arthur D. Hittner1997
Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer par David W. Zang1996

Finalist 84

ŒuvreAnnée
Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball par David Block2020
Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball par Christopher Phillips2020
Gehrig and the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud par Tony Castro2019
The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II par Anne R. Keene2019
Tom Yawkey: Patriarch of the Boston Red Sox par Bill Nowlin2019
Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line par Emily Ruth Rutter2019
The Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball and the White House par Curt Smith2019
Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character par Marty Appel2018
The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record par John Eisenberg2018
Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants par Robert F. Garratt2018
Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers (Sport and Society) par Debra A Shattuck2018
God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen par Mitchell Nathanson2017
Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit par Tom Stanton2017
The Selling of the Babe: The Deal That Changed Baseball and Created a Legend par Glenn Stout2017
In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball par Mark L. Armour2016
A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball par Jennifer Ring2016
The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees par Steve Steinberg2016
Baseball on Trial: The Origin of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption par Nathaniel Grow2015
The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession par Rick Huhn2015
Johnny Evers: A Baseball Life par Dennis Snelling2015
The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption par Stuart Banner2014
Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line par Tom Dunkel2014
The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych par Doug Wilson2014
One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season par Tony La Russa2013
Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931 par Norman L. Macht2013
Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella par Neil Lanctot2012
Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game par John Thorn2012
Fifty-Nine in '84 : Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had par Edward Achorn2011
Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball par Mark Armour2011
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood par Jane Leavy2011
Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee par Allen Barra2010
After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball par Robert E. Murphy2010
Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty par Daniel R. Levitt2009
"The Father of Baseball": A Biography of Henry Chadwick par Andrew J. Schiff2009
Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line par Adrian Burgos2008
Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball par Norman L. Macht2008
When to Stop the Cheering?: The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball (Studies in African American History and Culture) par Brian Carroll2007
The Origins And History of the All-american Girls Professional Baseball League par Merrie A. Fidler2007
Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made It America's Game par Mark Lamster2007
A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports par Brad Snyder2007
Breaking Into Baseball par Jean Hastings Ardell2006
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig par Jonathan Eig2006
Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend par Timothy M. Gay2006
The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball par Kevin Nelson2005
The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics par Alan Schwarz2005
Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924 par Reed Browning2004
The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour par James E. Elfers2004
Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal (Sport and Society) par Daniel A. Nathan2004
Beyond the Shadow of the Senators : The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball par Brad Snyder2004
Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston par Howard Bryant2003
Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis (SPORTS & AMERICAN CULTURE) par Jon David Cash2003
The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960 par Leslie A. Heaphy2003
The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81 (Sport and Society) par Charles Korr2003
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy par Jane Leavy2003
Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia (Jerry Malloy Prize) par Joseph A. Reaves2003
Much More Than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921 par Robert F. Burk2002
Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man par James N. Giglio2002
Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball's Biggest Crook par Martin Kohout2002
More than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History par David W. Anderson2001
Cy Young: A Baseball Life par Reed Browning2001
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life par Richard Ben Cramer2001
Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South par Bruce Adelson2000
A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward par Bryan Di Salvatore2000
The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball par Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria2000
Chris Von der Ahe and the St. Louis Browns par J. Thomas Hetrick2000
Smoke: The Romance and Lore of Cuban Baseball par Mark Rucker2000
The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938: Baseball Outlaws par R. G. Utley2000
Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball par Leonard Koppett1999
Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis par David Pietrusza1999
When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870 par William J. Ryczek1999
Baseball's radical for all seasons : a biography of John Montgomery Ward par David Stevens1999
The League That Failed par David Quentin Voigt1999
Baseball on the Border par Alan M. Klein1998
Jackie Robinson: A Biography par Arnold Rampersad1998
Big Red Dynasty: How Bob Howsam & Sparky Anderson Built the Big Red Machine par Greg Rhodes1998
New York Yankee Openers: An Opening Day History of Baseball's Most Famous Team, 1903-1996 par Lyle Spatz1998
Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike King Kelly (American Sports History Series) par Marty Appel1997
Honus Wagner: A Biography par Dennis DeValeria1997
Brooklyn's Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957 par Carl E. Prince1997
Creating the National Pastime par G. Edward White1997
Rogers Hornsby: A Biography par Charles C. Alexander1996
Diamonds of the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada par William Humber1996
The Beer and Whisky League: The Illustrated History of the American Association, Baseball's Renegade Major League par David Nemec1996
Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train par Henry W. Thomas1996

Descriptions

The Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal honors the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year.

(English, Award granter)
URL: https://sabr.org/awards/the-seymour-medal/
Given by the Society for American Baseball Researchers.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/books/Seymour_Medal.shtml (English, Member-written)

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