Dorothy Jane (Zander) Seymour Mills (July 5, 1928 – November 17, 2019) was an American baseball author, historian and researcher. She met her future husband

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while attending

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, where he was teaching. In 2010, Oxford University Press credited her as a co-author of the books ''Baseball: The Early Years'', ''Baseball: The Golden Age'', and ''Baseball: The People's Game'', which had all been published under her husband's name. In 2017, the Society for American Baseball Research created the Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award in her name to recognize "any person with a sustained involvement in women's baseball or any woman with a longtime involvement in baseball in any fashion."

Books

* ''Baseball: The Early Years'' (1960), Oxford University Press, with Harold Seymour * ''Baseball: The Golden Age'' (1971), Oxford University Press, with Harold Seymour * ''Baseball: The People's Game'' (1990), Oxford University Press, , with Harold Seymour * ''A woman's work: writing baseball history with Harold Seymour'',

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, * ''Chasing baseball: our obsession with its history, numbers, people and places'' (2010), McFarland & Company, , with Richard C. Crepeau * ''Drawing card: a baseball novel'' (2012), McFarland & Company, * ''First mystery: the kiss'' (2017), BluewaterPress, * ''Second mystery: the wet bathing suit'' (2017), BluewaterPress, * ''Third mystery: the phone call'' (2017), BluewaterPress,

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Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award (Women in Baseball)
– Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mills, Dorothy Seymour 1928 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers American women novelists Baseball writers Case Western Reserve University alumni Writers from Cleveland American women historians Sports historians Historians from Ohio