From Alan Schwartz at the New York Times:

"For almost 40 years, the Society for American Baseball Research has painstakingly unearthed and saluted the accomplishments of long-forgotten contributors to the game. Now it will honor the stars of its own: by creating, in effect, the Baseball Historian Hall of Fame.

SABR announced on Monday its inaugural class of winners of its new Henry Chadwick Award -– (fittingly) nine people whose work is far better known, even among casual fans, than most realize."

You can read more about the Chadwick Award's inaugural class at SABR. And here at Baseball-Reference, congratulations (and gratitude) are certainly in order for the honorees -- without their years of service to the game, there's a good chance this site doesn't exist right now. So, to Lee Allen, Bob Davids, Bill James, Peter Morris, David Neft, Pete Palmer, Lawrence Ritter, Harold Seymour, and Jules Tygiel: Thanks.

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