2016 Greg Spira Award Opens for Entries
The 2016 Greg Spira Baseball Research Award opened for entries on January 16, 2016.
2015 Greg Spira Baseball Research Award Winner Named
The winners of the 2015 Greg Spira Baseball Research Award were announced on Sunday.
2014 Greg Spira Baseball Research Award Winner Named
The winners of the 2014 Greg Spira Baseball Research Award were announced on Sunday.
2014 Greg Spira Award Opens for Entries
The 2014 Greg Spira Baseball Research Award opened for entries on January 16, 2014. Last year’s winner was Trent McCotter, an attorney residing in Washington, D.C., who was awarded top honors for his essay, “Cal Ripken’s Record for Consecutive Innings.”
First Greg Spira Baseball Research Award Winner Named
The winner of the first Greg Spira Baseball Research Award, named in honor of the late co-founder and managing editor of Frequent Business Traveler magazine, was announced Saturday. Trent McCotter, an attorney residing in Washington, D.C., was awarded top honors for his essay, “Cal Ripken’s Record for Consecutive Innings.” …
Greg Spira Award created to recognize young baseball researchers
A group of distinguished writers and researchers have collaborated to create a new award as a memorial to the late baseball researcher and SABR member Greg Spira. The Greg Spira Baseball Research Award (www.SpiraAward.org) will be given annually in recognition of the best published article or paper containing original baseball research by a person 30 years old or younger. The winning entry must display innovative analysis or reasoning.
Working with the Spira family, the creators of the Greg Spira Award include SABR members Sean Forman (Baseball-Reference.com), Joe Hamrahi (Baseball Prospectus), Sean Lahman (Baseball1.com) and Gary Gillette (24-7 Baseball, LLC), along with Dave Pease (Baseball Prospectus).
The winner of the Greg Spira Baseball Research Award will receive a cash prize of $1,000. The program will also recognize two additional writers with awards of $200 for second place and $100 for third place…
Award honoring researcher Spira announced
An award has been established in memory of Greg Spira, a baseball researcher who was ahead of his time and passed away in December at age 44.
The Greg Spira Baseball Research Award will be given annually in recognition of the best published original research by a person age 30 or younger.
“The winning entry must display innovative analysis or reasoning,” according to the statement announcing the award Friday, which would have been Spira’s 45th birthday.
Raised in New York City and a Harvard graduate, Spira founded the Internet Baseball Awards in 1991 and announced the 2011 winners a month before his death, caused by complications from polycystic kidney disease and a subsequent kidney transplant…
Greg Spira Baseball Research Award Announced
A group of distinguished baseball writers and researchers have collaborated to create a new award as a memorial to the late baseball researcher Greg Spira. The new Greg Spira Baseball Research Award (www.SpiraAward.org) will be given annually in recognition of the best published article or paper containing original baseball research by a person 30 years old or younger. The winning entry must display innovative analysis or reasoning.
Greg Spira founded the annual Internet Baseball Awards (IBA) in 1991 and announced the 2011 winners a month before his death. Spira was an early adopter and a pioneer in using the Internet to advance baseball analysis, particularly via Usenet’s groundbreaking rec.sport.baseball as well as via BaseballProspectus.com.
Spira later contributed to many sports books as a researcher, writer, and editor, including the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, the ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia, Total Baseball, and several annual periodicals about the Mets. A lifelong and passionate Mets fan, Spira died on December 28, 2011 in his native New York City…
Greg Andrew Spira
Greg Andrew Spira ’89cl died December 28 in New York City from complications of polycystic kidney disease and a kidney transplant. He was a co-founder of The Diesel Driver and Frequent Business Traveler magazines and an online pioneer. In 1991, two years before the invention of the first Web browser, he founded the Internet Baseball Awards, which turned 20 in 2011; he also helped develop Usenet online baseball discussion groups, notably rec.sport.baseball, and co-founded both Baseball Prospectus, a website focusing on sabermetric analysis of the sport, and BaseballBooks.net. As a freelance editor and researcher he worked on a variety of publications, including Ultimate Yankees Companion, USA Today Sports Weekly’s Best Baseball Writing, ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, and Sports Illustrated Sports Almanac. His own library of books on contemporary sports numbered in the thousands. He leaves his brother, Jonathan, and his mother, Marilyn.
Greg Spira baseball library finds a new home at SABR office
In his short life, SABR member Greg Spira built one of the most admired private baseball libraries in the world.
John Thorn, Major League Baseball’s official historian, told MLB.com in January that Spira’s collection of “modern” baseball books could well be unparalleled.
“Greg got everything that came out,” Thorn said. “So if you’re talking about modern baseball books, say 1990 forward, I don’t know who would equal Greg, apart from a library.”
Spira, 44, passed away on December 28, 2011, after…