Lyle Spatz is the chairman of the Society for American Baseball Research's Baseball Records Committee. He is the author of numerous baseball books, including Dixie Walker: A Life in Baseball (2011) and Historical Dictionary of Baseball (2012), and coauthor of 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (2012). Spatz's baseball articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Total Baseball, Baseball Digest, The Baseball Research Journal, and more. In 2000 he was presented with SABR's most prestigious honor, the L. Robert Davids Award.