SABR

SABR Convention

SABR 43
July 31-August 4, 2013
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107


The SABR 43 Planning Committee began meeting in September 2011. We recruited members from the Connie Mack Chapter and assessed our skills to see how best we could organize this momentous happening for the City of Brotherly Love. Fortunately, several in our crew have had experience in organizing conventions, including the 2002 Boston Convention.

The convention will be held at the Marriott Downtown in Center City Philadelphia, a quick light rail ride from Philadelphia Airport and Amtrak. Center City is the hub of Philly’s cultural, business and social life. It is a veritable trove of attractions served by an excellent mass transit system.

In addition to the usual fun of ballgames, research presentations and great panels with baseball executives, former players and media personnel, we intend to have special events that will include:

SABRites will also have the opportunity to:

  • Walk the same cobblestones that Ben Franklin trod
  • Sit in President Washington’s pew
  • Observe the Liberty Bell up close
  • Visit the home of Connie Mack
  • See the final resting place of Harry Wright (with the headstone “The Father of Baseball”)
  • See the field where Ed Bolden’s Philadelphia Stars played
  • Visit spots where the fields of 1830s baseball were located

When SABR last visited Philadelphia in 1974, the Phils played at the no-specific-purpose Veterans Stadium. In 2013, we will take you to cozy Citizens Bank Park, one of the more attractive baseball stadiums in the country. Despite the Philllies’ longest consecutive-game-sellout streak in baseball history, we are confident that given our good relationship with the Phils, we will obtain game tickets in several sections of the park.

The SABR 43 Planning Committee eagerly awaits the crowds of SABR’s baseball experts, historians, statisticians, general fans and their families who will visit our “olde countrie towne”. And we fully expect to declare Philadelphia as the “Baseball Capital of the World” when SABR 43 convenes here in 2013.

Click here to register for SABR 43. We hope you'll join us!

— Seamus Kearney and Dick Rosen
Philadelphia/Connie Mack Chapter
SABR 43 chairs

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