Robert Whiting honored with SABR's prestigious Henry Chadwick Award

From the Society for American Baseball Research news release on Feb. 12:

“Robert Whiting (1942 – ) has been a writer and journalist for many decades, with a primary focus on Japanese culture. He has written three books on Japanese baseball: The Chrysanthemum and the Bat: The Game Japanese Play (1977), You Gotta Have Wa: When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond (1989), and The Meaning of Ichiro: The New Wave from Japan and the Transformation of Our National Pastime (2004) — each groundbreaking in the field.”

The Henry Chadwick Award was established in November 2009 to honor baseball’s great researchers—historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists—for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past.

Apart from honoring individuals for the length and breadth of their contribution to the study and enjoyment of baseball, the Chadwick Award will educate the baseball community about sometimes little known but vastly important contributions from the game’s past and thus encourage the next generation of researchers.

The contributions of nominees must have had public impact. This may be demonstrated by publication of research in any of a variety of formats: books, magazine articles, websites, etc. The compilation of a significant database or archive that has facilitated the published research of others will also be considered in the realm of public impact.

Past winners of the Chadwick Award include Sporting News founder J.G. Taylor Spink, legendary sportswriter Leonard Koppett, and statistical innovator Bill James.

https://sabr.org/latest/sabr-announces-2023-henry-chadwick-award-recipients