John Burbridge, along with two other academics, selected the 2009 Seymour Medal recipient at the Seymour Medal Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 1. The Seymour Medal is given by the Society for American Baseball Research and honors the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year.
At the conference, Burbridge presented his research, titled “The Dodgers-Giants Rivalry Between 1947-1957: The Dark-Robinson Incident and Its Aftermath.”