Henry Chadwick Award

The Henry Chadwick Award was established by the Society for American Baseball Research in November 2009 "to honor those researchers, historians, analysts, and statisticians whose work has most contributed to our understanding of the game and its history". On March 1, 2010, SABR announced a first class of awardees. Up to five awardees will be announced in future years. The award is considered to be a sort of Hall of Fame of persons who have distinguished themselves in the fields covered by the award. Winners are selected by a three-member pannel of distinguished peers and the award can be bestowed posthumously. The second group of honorees was announced on February 17, 2011, and a new class has been announced in early February of each following year.

The award is named for Henry Chadwick, who is a member of the Hall of Fame and is credited with writing baseball's first rule book.

Award Winners

• Charles Alexander (2011)
• Lee Allen (2010)
• Mark Armour (2014)
• Gary Ashwill (2021)
• Peter C. Bjarkman (2017)
• David Block (2015)
• James E. Brunson III (2022)
• Jefferson Burdick (2018)
• Bill Carle (2013)
• Henry Chadwick (2010)
• Dick Cramer (2015)
• Robert Creamer (2012)
• Bob Davids (2010)
• Bill Deane (2015)
• John Dewan (2016)
• Paul Dickson (2013)
• Sean Forman (2011)
• Michael Haupert (2020)
• Tom Heitz (2012)
• John Holway (2011)
• Bill James (2010)
• Cliff Kachline (2011)
• Leonard Koppett (2019)
• F.C. Lane (2012)
• Ernie Lanigan (2014)
• Jane Leavy (2022)
• Larry Lester (2016)
• Dan Levitt (2017)
• Fred Lieb (2013)
• Norman Macht (2016)
• Jerry Malloy (2015)
• Bob McConnell (2018)
• Larry McCray (2017)
• Peter Morris (2010)
• Alan Nathan (2021)
• David Neft (2010)
• David Nemec (2015)
• Ray Nemec (2012)
• Rob Neyer (2019)
• Marc Okkonen (2014)
• Daniel Okrent (2022)
• Peter Palmer (2010)
• Robert W. Peterson (2021)
• Francis Richter (2013)
• Lawrence Ritter (2010)
• Allan Roth (2019)
• Tom Ruane (2016)
• Cory Schwartz (2014)
• Harold Seymour (2010)
• Dorothy Seymour Mills (2010)
• Thomas Shea (2020)
• Tom Shieber (2018)
• David W. Smith (2012)
• Lyle Spatz (2017)
• Tom Tango (2020)
• John Tattersall (2013)
• J.G. Taylor Spink (2011)
• John Thorn (2013)
• Jules Tygiel (2010)
• Andrew Zimbalist (2018)

Further Reading

• "Henry Chadwick Award", in The Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Volume 39, Number 1 (Summer 2010), pp. 122-131.
• Alan Schwarz: "Baseball historians get their own Hall", The New York Times, March 2, 2010 [1]

Related Sites

• SABR announcement of the inaugural class of winners
• The award's page at the SABR site