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Steve’s article, “Matty and the Browns: A Window onto the AL-NL War of 1901-1902,” appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture (Vol. 14, No. 2). It examines the story of pitching great Christy Mathewson’s signing with the St. Louis Browns and how the Browns’ visionary owner Robert Lee Hedges gave him up in the peace settlement of January 1903. The article has received the 2007 SABR-McFarland Award.

2007 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award Winners Announced
For Immediate Release May 24, 2007
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Cleveland, Ohio - The judges for the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award are pleased to announce that this year's winners are (in random order) Brian Carroll for “Early Twentieth Century Heroes: Coverage of Negro League Baseball in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender;” Mitchell Nathanson for “The Irrelevance of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption: A Historical Review;” and Steve Steinberg, “Matty and the Browns: A Window Onto the AL-NL War.”

The McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award honors the authors of the best articles or papers, published or unpublished, on baseball history or biography completed during the preceding calendar year.

Works eligible for the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award include magazine and journal articles, previously unpublished chapters or articles in anthologies or other books with multiple authors, unpublished research papers and written versions of oral presentations. Authors honored for unpublished work may not later receive a SABR research award for that work (or work that is substantially the same) in published form.

SABR will honor this year’s winners at their annual convention July 26-29 in St. Louis.

This year’s judges were Phil Bergen, William Humber and Fred Ivor-Campbell.

SABR (pronounced “Saber”) is an international organization headquartered in Cleveland, OH. The Society's mission is to foster the study of baseball, to assist in developing and maintaining the history of the game, to facilitate the dissemination of baseball research and to stimulate interest in baseball.