| Seymour Medal Award | 
| Year | 
Book Title | 
Author | 
Publisher | 
| 
1996
 | Fleet
Walker's Divided Heart | 
 David Zang | 
 University of Nebraska Press | 
 | 1997 | 
 Honus Wagner: The Life of Baseball's "Flying Dutchman" | 
 Arthur D. Hittner | 
 McFarland Publishing Company | 
 | 1998 | 
 The Detroit Tigers: Club and Community, 1945-95 | 
 Patrick Harrigan | University of Toronto Press | 
 | 1999 | 
 Baseball's Last Dynasty: Charlie Finley's Oakland A's | 
 Bruce Markusen | 
 Masters Press and Contemporary Books | 
 | 2000 | 
 Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 | 
 Bill Marshall | 
 University of Kentucky Press | 
 | 2001 | 
 Past Time: Baseball as History | 
 Jules Tygiel | 
 Oxford University Press | 
 | 2002 | 
 Early Baseball and the Rise of the National League | 
 Tom Melville | 
 McFarland Publishing Company | 
 | 2003 | 
 Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era | 
 Charles C. Alexander | 
 Columbia University Press | 
 | 2004 | 
 Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan | 
 Peter Morris | 
  University of Michigan Press | 
 | 2005 | 
 Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution | 
 Neil Lanctot | 
 University of Pennsylvania Press | 
 | 2006 | 
 Baseball Before We Knew It | 
 David Block | 
 Bison Books:  University of Nebraska Press | 
 | 2007 | 
 Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball | 
 Peter Morris | 
 Ivan R. Dee |