At the end of each regular season, the America East Conference names major award winners in baseball.
Currently, it names a Coach, Pitcher, Player, and Rookie of the Year.
Through the end of the 2019 season, Stony Brook has won 21 major awards, the most of any school in the conference.
[1] In the conference's 25–year history, a single team has swept the awards six times.
Three instances came before 1996 (when the conference Rookie of the Year was added as the fourth award): Central Connecticut in 1990 and Delaware in 1992 and 1995.
[19] Four of the award's winners – Maine's Larry Thomas, Northeastern's Adam Ottavino, Stony Brook's Nick Tropeano, and Hartford's Sean Newcomb – have gone on to pitch in the MLB.
It is named for Len Harlow, who worked in athletic communications for Maine and the conference.
[42] In 2012, Stony Brook outfielder Travis Jankowski became the first America East Player of the Year award winner to be drafted in the first round of the MLB Draft, and the second America East player overall after Northeastern's Carlos Peña.
[1] Five recipients – Maine's Mark Sweeney, Delaware's Cliff Brumbaugh, Mench, Vermont's Matt Duffy, and Stony Brook's Travis Jankowski – have appeared in the MLB.
[64] Two of the award's recipients – Delaware's Kevin Mench and Binghamton's Scott Diamond – later played in the MLB.