On February 12 the Society for American Baseball Research announced the winner of its 2024 Seymour Medal. We not only published the winner of this year’s medal but the runner-up as well!

Steven P. Gietschier’s Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years won the 2024 Seymour Medal, which honors the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year. Gietschier will receive his award during the 31st annual NINE Spring Training Conference on Saturday, March 6, 2024, in Tempe, Arizona.

The level of research Steve Gietschier put into this book had Seymour Medal written all over it. The writing was excellent.

– Seymour Medal Selection Committee

The runner-up for the award was Erik Sherman’s Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers which retells Fernando Valenzuela’s arrival and permanent influence on Dodgers history—while bringing redemption to the organization’s controversial beginnings in Los Angeles.

Congratulations to our authors and others who were considered for this award!