Callie Batts Maddox ’98, assistant professor of sports leadership and management at Miami University in Ohio, recently won the 2018 Doug Pappas Award for the best oral research presentation at the Society for American Baseball Research annual convention. Her presentation was titled, “Ty Cobb has Nothing on Her: Early Twentieth Century Women’s Collegiate Baseball in Ohio.”
Maddox was chosen to give an oral presentation based on a blind peer-review process of abstract submissions where only 34 presenters were selected.
In 2017, Maddox was on the Whittier campus to participate in a Women’s History Month panel for the Institute for Baseball Studies, “Equal to the Game: Women and Baseball.” Sponsored in collaboration with the USC Annenberg Institute of Sports, Media and Society and the International Women’s Baseball Center, the symposium featured a panel of alumnae from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League as well as scholarly presentations on women and baseball. Maddox’s presentation was titled, “Women’s Collegiate Baseball: Then and Now.”