This Week in SABR: September 9, 2016

September 9, 2016/in This Week in SABR /by admin

Welcome to “This Week in SABR!” Click here to view this week’s newsletter on the web. Here’s what we’ve been up to as of September 9, 2016:

Registration now open for 2016 SABR Arizona Fall League Experience

We hope you’ll join us for the eighth annual SABR Arizona Fall League Experience, which will be held Thursday, November 3 to Saturday, November 5, 2016. All baseball fans are welcome to attend.

The event will feature four AFL games — at four different ballparks — showcasing baseball’s top prospects. We’ll also have a ballpark dinner at Scottsdale Stadium with a special guest speaker and the Arizona Major League Alumni auction on Friday evening.

On Saturday, November 5, attendees will join members of SABR’s Flame Delhi Chapter for their regional fall meeting, with research presentations and guest speakers. We’ll conclude the conference with the nationally televised Fall Stars Game on Saturday evening at Surprise Stadium. All of this, including transportation, is included in one low registration price.

Register now by clicking here! Registration is $175 for all SABR members and guests before October 7, 2016; $195 afterward.
Host hotel: SABR’s recommended hotel is the Holiday Inn Express & Suites (3131 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85251) in Old Town Scottsdale. Click here to book your room online or call the hotel at (480) 675-7665 and mention “SABR” to book your room at our special group rate of $116/night (plus tax).

Your registration fee includes all game tickets; an AFL Media Guide; a special evening with Arizona Major League Alumni; and transportation to and from all events.

The Arizona Fall League (mlbfallball.com) is baseball’s premier player development league. In the first seven years of the conference, attendees were treated to sneak peeks at Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Buster Posey, Stephen Strasburg, Nolan Arenado, Gerrit Cole, Billy Hamilton, and Gary Sanchez before they hit the big leagues.

All baseball fans are welcome to attend, so join us in November for the SABR Arizona Fall League Experience!

Related link: Jim Callis: Who are the top prospects in the 2016 Arizona Fall League? (MLB.com)
SABR AFL highlights: Find photos and recaps of previous SABR AFL Experiences at SABR.org/AFL

**Get the Fall 2016 Baseball Research Journal delivered straight to your inbox**

Once again, SABR is offering members the opportunity to opt out of receiving the printed version of the Fall 2016 Baseball Research Journal. We’ll deliver the e-book version of the Fall 2016 BRJ in the format of your choice (EPUB, MOBI/Kindle or PDF) straight to your inbox in early November. Click here to learn more about receiving the e-book edition of the BRJ.

Opt out of receiving the printed edition by Saturday, October 1 in order to get early access to all the great content in the BRJ in e-book format and online at SABR.org.

To opt out of receiving the printed version of the Baseball Research Journal: Click here to edit your membership profile. Scroll to the bottom and select “Receive publications electronically.” Then save your changes.

Please note: If you do nothing, you will continue to receive two print editions of the Baseball Research Journal every year by mail.

If you’ve never read a Baseball Research Journal in e-book form, click here to try it out with the Spring 2015 edition. The Baseball Research Journal, and all SABR e-books, are available in EPUB, MOBI/Kindle or PDF formats.

To read articles from the BRJ archives, click here.

Don’t forget to renew: You can renew your SABR membership at any time in order to continue receiving the Baseball Research Journal, The National Pastime, and many other member benefits throughout the year. Click here to view your membership status and expiration date, or renew your membership.

Educators, sign up your class for a discounted SABR Student Group Affiliate Membership

A Student Group Affiliate Membership will provide students with access to many of the electronic benefits that SABR members enjoy, including “This Week in SABR,” e-book editions of the Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime, free SABR e-books, and access to the members-only section of SABR.org. This membership will not include any printed publications or voting rights.

In order to make the Student Group Affiliate Membership affordable for groups to join, here are the options we offer:

College/University groups/classes: For an annual fee of $250, a group of up to 25 students can receive a one-year electronic SABR affiliate membership.
High School/Middle School groups/classes: For an annual fee of $100, a group of up to 20 students can receive a one-year electronic SABR affiliate membership.

Any educational class or student group at the middle school, high school or college/university level is eligible for a SABR affiliate membership, as long as a faculty member, teacher, or advisor is an active SABR member (or registers to join.) The teacher/advisor will be listed as the group contact on the SABR website.

The teacher/advisor will be asked to collect the money, names and e-mail addresses for all students wishing to join, and submit those to the SABR office at one time. In addition, the advisor/instructor must be an active SABR member or sign up for a regular SABR membership; annual dues are $65, with discounts available for adults under the age of 30 or over 65.

To sign up for a Student Group Affiliate Membership, or if you have any questions about how it might work for your group or class, please contact SABR Vice President Dr. Leslie Heaphy at Lheaphy@kent.edu or (330) 244-3304.

Schedule finalized for 2016 SABR Philadelphia 19th Century Baseball Interdisciplinary Symposium

Join us for the Philadelphia 19th Century Baseball Interdisciplinary Symposium, co-hosted by SABR’s Nineteenth Century Research Committee and the Connie Mack/Philadelphia Chapter, will take place from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 12, 2016, at Maggiano’s Restaurant, 1201 Filbert St. in the Center City of Philadelphia.

We’ll have a full day of programming that will include a Welcoming Address by Major League Baseball’s Official Historian John Thorn; a Luncheon Keynote presentation by veteran Philadelphia newspaper reporters and editors Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin, co-authors of Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America; a panel discussion on Philadelphia’s 19th Century Baseball’s Movers & Shakers, moderated by Dick Rosen; four other Research Presentations devoted to seldom addressed aspects of 19th-century baseball by such experts as Jerrold Casway, Ralph Carhart, Richard Hershberger, John Shiffert, and Matt Albertson.

Space is limited, so reserve your spot today!

Registration: Click here to download a registration form. Registration is $95 per person, for SABR members and up to three guests. Please make check or money order payable to SABR and include ““Phila. 19cBB Symposium” on the memo line. Mail form and payment to Peter Mancuso, 6970 Ely Rd., New Hope, PA 18938, before November 1, 2016.
Schedule: Click here to view the detailed schedule for the Philadelphia 19th Century Baseball Interdisciplinary Symposium

For more information, please contact Peter Mancuso at peterplus4@earthlink.net.

Learn more about new SABR Diversity and Inclusion Committee

SABR is pleased to announce the formation of a Diversity and Inclusion Committee, which was established during the SABR 46 convention in Miami.

Our new D&I committee will be dedicated to promoting outreach into traditionally underrepresented communities in SABR’s membership base, and ensuring that SABR events provide a welcoming environment to individuals of all backgrounds. The strategy and vision for the SABR D&I Committee will be led by a steering committee, comprised of SABR Director Emily Hawks, D&I committee chair; SABR Vice President Leslie Heaphy, chair of the Women in Baseball Research Committee; Anthony Salazar, chair of the Latino Baseball Research Committee; and Larry Lester, chair of the Negro Leagues Research Committee.

The SABR D&I Committee will also have several affiliate members, who will be crucial in our community outreach and inclusion efforts. If you are interested in joining the committee as an affiliate member, please contact Emily Hawks at emilyhawks@gmail.com.

Download your free e-book copy of The National Pastime: Baseball in the Sunshine State

Since 2009, The National Pastime has served as SABR’s convention-focused publication. Published annually, this research journal provides in-depth articles focused on the respective geographic region where the national convention is taking place in a given year.

The SABR 46 convention is set to begin this week in Miami, and we have dedicated the theme of The National Pastime to baseball in the Sunshine State. All SABR members receive a free e-book copy of The National Pastime as part of their membership benefits, while attendees of the national convention will also receive a souvenir print edition in their goody bags.

Download the e-book: Click here to download your free e-book copy of the 2016 convention journal, The National Pastime: Baseball in the Sunshine State (PDF, EPUB, or MOBI/Kindle formats)

Having trouble downloading our e-books? To view PDF files on your computer, click here to download the free Adobe Reader software. Having trouble downloading e-books to your Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader or iPad? Click here for additional help.

If you aren’t able to attend the convention in Miami, please enjoy this issue of The National Pastime as your virtual trip to South Florida. Happy reading!

To learn more about contributing to a future SABR publication, click here.

— Cecilia M. Tan, editor

Read it online: Click here to read all articles from The National Pastime: Baseball in the Sunshine State online at SABR.org.
Buy the magazine: Click here to purchase a print edition of The National Pastime: Baseball in the Sunshine State from the SABR Bookstore.

Call for papers: 2017 SABR Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference

All SABR members are invited and encouraged to submit a Research Presentation Proposal Abstract on any topic of 19th-century baseball for the 2017 Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. The ninth annual Ivor-Campbell Conference is scheduled for April 21-22, 2017.

The deadline for proposal Abstracts is October 31, 2016. Your abstract must be between 200-500 words for a 20- to 25-minute presentation. Please include name, title, and contact information and send your proposal as a Microsoft Word or PDF attachment to Peter Mancuso at peterplus4@earthlink.net.

This deadline enables us to publish the complete program and schedule in time for the release of our 2017 Winter Issue of our quarterly newsletter, “Nineteenth Century Notes,” in early January, when registration for “The Fred” begins.

For any questions, please contact Peter Mancuso at peterplus4@earthlink.net.

5 new SABR biographies published

Five new biographies were posted this week as part of the SABR Baseball Biography Project, which brings us to a total of 3,845 published biographies. Here are the new bios published this week:

Dick Brodowski, by Bill Nowlin
Foster Castleman, by Chris Rainey
Bob Porterfield, by Warren Corbett
Joe Quinn, by Rochelle Nichols
Ken Szotkiewicz, by Chad Moody

All new biographies can be found here: http://sabr.org/bioproj/recent

Search for any SABR biography: You can now visit sabr.org/bioproj_search to search for any player — or manager, executive, scout, spouse, broadcaster, or umpire — who appears in the SABR BioProject. You can also browse all of these BioProject categories and a lot more, including 300-game winners, Hall of Famers, 1960s All-Stars, or Negro Leaguers, at our Browse page: sabr.org/bioproj/browse.

1934 St. Louis Cardinals biographies now posted online

In SABR’s The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals: The World Champion Gas House Gang, edited by Charles F. Faber and published in 2014, we highlighted one of the most colorful crews ever to play the National Pastime.

What a cast of characters it was! None was more picturesque than Pepper Martin, the “Wild Horse of the Osage,” who ran the bases with reckless abandon. The irrepressible Dizzy Dean delivered on his boasts by winning 30 games in 1934, the last National League hurler to achieve that feat. Dizzy and his brother Paul Dean accounted for all of the Cardinal victories in the 1934 World Series.

The club’s hitters were led by the New Jersey strong boy, Joe “Ducky” Medwick, who hated the nickname, preferring to be called “Muscles.” Presiding over this aggregation was the “Fordham Flash,” Frankie Frisch. Rounding out the club were worthies bearing such nicknames as Ripper, “Leo the Lip,” Spud, Kiddo, Pop, Dazzy, Ol’ Stubblebeard, Wild Bill, Buster, Chick, Red, and Tex. Some of these were aging stars, past their prime, and others were youngsters, on their way up. Together they comprised a championship ball club.

The SABR BioProject biographies that appeared in the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals book can now be read online at: http://sabr.org/category/completed-book-projects/1934-st-louis-cardinals.

You can also purchase the book or download the e-book by clicking here. SABR members can download all SABR Digital Library e-books for free at SABR.org/ebooks.

6 new stories published by the SABR Games Project

Six new game stories were posted this week as part of the SABR Games Project. Here are the new game stories:

October 14, 1908: Cubs win World Series for second year in a row, by Mike Huber
July 8, 1936: Baltimore police tame the U.S. Olympic baseball team, by Jimmy Keenan
July 3, 1943: Red Sox rookie Leon Culberson hits for the natural cycle — with inside-the-park home run, by Mike Huber
September 10, 1967: Joe Horlen’s no-hitter rekindles White Sox’s pennant dreams, by Gregory H. Wolf
May 15, 1973: ‘Just a matter of time’: Nolan Ryan’s first no-hitter, by Gregory H. Wolf
October 13, 2011: Rangers’ C.J. Wilson yields natural cycle to four consecutive Tigers batters in ALCS, by Mike Huber

All new Games Project stories can be found here: http://sabr.org/gamesproject/recent

Get involved: Writing for the Games Project is an easy way to get involved as a SABR member. Find out how by reading the Games Project FAQs section or checking out the Authors’ Guidelines.
Seeking a new Chief Editor: Would you like to help contribute to the SABR Games Project? We’re seeking a new Chief Editor (or editors) to help coordinate the editing for all Games Project stories. This is a crucial role, but unglamorous and thankless — though we do try to thank editors as much as we can. If you have any experience editing and would like to help, please contact Greg Erion or Bruce Slutsky. Fact-checkers are also wanted; you could volunteer, for example, to read all game essays from the early 1950s for accuracy. Please contact the Games Project officers above for more details.
Still waiting for your story to appear? Due to changes in the editing team, it may be possible that Games Project stories submitted in the past few months for editing have been lost prior to their being vetted and published. If you have submitted an article and not heard back from an editor or seen your article published yet, please resubmit your article(s) to Len Levin at lenlevin5@hotmail.com. We are working hard to post all back stories that were submitted and we apologize for any inconvenience this development may have caused.

**Listen to Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM on Sunday nights**

Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM, a radio show hosted by SABR President Vince Gennaro, will air this weekend at its regular time, 7:00-8:00 p.m. ET on Sundays, on MLB Network Radio.

This week’s guests are former major-league reliever Mike Stanton, who will discuss his memories of 9/11 in New York, and Eric Roseberry of Call to the Pen, on Brian Dozier’s incredible second half.

Now, you can also watch video highlights of Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM on MLB.com and you can also listen to all recent episodes on-demand on the SiriusXM Internet Radio App.

Video preview: Anthony Castrovince breaks down the Cleveland Indians’ dominant rotation (MLB.com)

Click here to watch more video highlights of Baseball SABR Style from MLB.com.

Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM focuses on examining and interpreting the statistical analysis that plays a critical role in baseball today. It airs weekly throughout the year on MLB Network Radio, available to subscribers nationwide on XM channel 89, Sirius channel 209, and on the SiriusXM Internet Radio App.

ICYMI: Highlights from last week’s This Week in SABR

We’ve heard your feedback: Some of you have said you look forward to “This Week in SABR” every Friday, but sometimes there are just too many compelling articles and announcements to read every week. We’re not complaining — hey, keep up the great work! — but we know the feeling. So in an effort to make the length of this newsletter more manageable to read, we’ll summarize some of the repeating/recurring announcements in a special “In Case You Missed It (ICYMI)” section of “This Week in SABR”.

Here are some major headlines from recent weeks that we don’t want you to miss:

All previous editions of This Week in SABR can be found here: http://sabr.org/content/this-week-in-sabr-archives.

For more information, click here.

Welcome, new members!

We’d like to welcome all of our new SABR members who have joined this week. You can find all Members-Only resources at members.sabr.org and the Membership Handbook can be downloaded here.

Please give these new members a warm welcome and help them make the most of their membership by giving them the opportunity to get involved in their local chapter or a research committee.

You can find contact information for any SABR member in the online membership directory (SABR.org/directory).

Name	Hometown	Name	Hometown
Matthew Clever	Macungie, PA	Tess Kolp	Kalamazoo, MI
John Dowd	Chicago, IL	Mark Lebsock	Escondido, CA
Brett Doze	Lawrence, KS	Paul Morris	St. Louis, MO
Robert Frey	Iowa City, IA	Doug Redington	Elon, NC
Tony Hightower	Clarksville, TN	Brandon Rose	Fort Myers, FL
Jim Hindley	Burlington, ON	Stefan Schropp	Macon, GA
Chris Holke	Cary, IL	Denise Stillman	Oaklawn, IL
Wayne Holliday	Powell, OH	Justin Volman	Tuscaloosa, AL
Thomas Keeler	St. Paul, MN	C. Terry Walters	Mechanicsburg, PA
Sean Kingsepp	Hicksville, NY

Research Committee news

Here are the new SABR research committee updates this week:

Biographical Research: July/August 2016 newsletter
Games Project: Would you like to help contribute to the SABR Games Project? We’re seeking a new Chief Editor (or editors) to help coordinate the editing for all Games Project stories. This is a crucial role, but unglamorous and thankless — though we do try to thank editors as much as we can. If you have any experience editing and would like to help, please contact Greg Erion or Bruce Slutsky. Fact-checkers are also wanted; you could volunteer, for example, to read all game essays from the early 1950s for accuracy. Please contact the Games Project officers above for more details.

Find all SABR research committee newsletters at SABR.org/research.

Regional Chapter news

Here are the new regional chapter updates this week:

Connecticut Smoky Joe Wood Chapter meeting/ballgame photo gallery (September 3; New Britain, CT)
Robinson-Kell Chapter meeting recap (August 20; Little Rock, AR)
Rogers Hornsby Chapter new website: After months of hard work, I am happy to report that we have a new and improved website for the Rogers Hornsby Chapter at sabrhornsby.org. Ryan Pollack deserves the bulk of our gratitude for navigating us through a process in which we considered our options and created our own WordPress site. Thanks also to Monte Cely and Jan Larson for their able assistance helping get the new website in shape. This new website will ensure that we have a reliable online presence for years to come. — Gilbert Martinez
Best Practices handbook: Chapter leaders, download the new Chapter Leaders Best Practices Handbook on the Admin Tools page at admin.sabr.org. The handbook offers suggestions and guidelines for meetings, speakers, revitalizing a chapter, and getting publicity for SABR and chapter events.

Visit SABR.org/chapters for more information on SABR regional chapters.

SABR Events Calendar

Here is a list of upcoming SABR events:

September 10: Halsey Hall Chapter Hot Stove Saturday Morning (Minneapolis, MN)
September 10: Forbes Field Chapter meeting (Pittsburgh, PA)
September 10: Norm King: “Au jeu/Play Ball: The 50 Greatest Games in the History of the Montreal Expos” (Ottawa, ON)
September 12: Philip Ross: “Negro Leagues Baseball .311” (Queens, NY)
September 14: Bob Davids Monthly Hot Stove Dinner (Arlington, VA)
September 15: Magnolia Chapter “Third Thursday” meeting (Sandy Springs, GA)
September 17: Jack Graney Chapter meeting (Cleveland, OH)
September 17: Brian Kenny: “Ahead of the Curve” book signing (Montclair, NJ)
September 18: Sean Kane: “Negro Leagues Beisbol” exhibit opening (Morgantown, WV)
September 18: SABR Board of Directors conference call
September 19: Larry Dierker Chapter monthly meeting (Houston, TX)
September 19: Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter monthly meeting (St. Louis, MO)
September 20: Bob Davids Chapter Maryland Hot Stove Dinner (Silver Spring, MD)
September 21: Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter “Called Shot” monthly meeting (Baltimore, MD)
September 22: Rocky Mountain Chapter monthly luncheon (Denver, CO)
September 22: Bergino: “The Baseball Whisperer” with Michael Tackett (New York, NY)
September 24: Living Cuban Baseball Legends luncheon (Miami, FL)
September 24: Allan Roth Chapter meeting (La Habra, CA)
September 24: Rogers Hornsby Chapter “Béisbol Mexicano” ballgame/meetup (Round Rock, TX)
September 27: Connie Mack Chapter “Ted Williams Walk” (Philadelphia, PA)
September 28: Magnolia Chapter “Fourth Wednesday” meeting (Tucker, GA)

All SABR meetings and events are open to the public. Feel free to bring a baseball-loving friend … and make many new ones! Check out the SABR Events Calendar at SABR.org/events.

Around the Web

Here are some recent articles published by and about SABR members:

Leslie Heaphy: History made in Rockford as International Women’s Baseball Center opens (Excelle Sports)
Brian Mills: Are the umpires at it again? (The Hardball Times)
Jeff Katz: More than you ever knew about Vin Scully’s movie and TV career (Jeff-Katz.com)
Don Drooker: My pal Vinny (Rotisserie Duck)
Aaron Gleeman: Joey Votto credits second-half surge to … Mays and Musial? (Baseball Prospectus)
Meg Rowley: Searching for weirdness in the Baseball-Reference Play Index (Baseball Prospectus)
Mark Stoler: The hottest streak in baseball (Things Have Changed)
Marty Appel: The underappreciated Earle Combs (The National Pastime Museum)
David Laurila: Q&A with Danny Duffy on pitching (and not overthinking) (FanGraphs)
Graham Womack: Despite decline, Albert Pujols is still an easy Hall of Fame choice (The Sporting News)
Cee Angi: The 1990 Reds, stumbling on to a World Series title (The National Pastime Museum)
Jen Mac Ramos: Don’t forget Sam Lynn in Bakersfield (The Hardball Times)
Bill Clark: Prodigious Negro Leagues pitcher John Donaldson deserves recognition (Columbia Tribune)
Skip Nipper: Ghosts of Sulphur Dell (262 Down Right)
Bill Felber: Looking back at the Providence Grays (The National Pastime Museum)

Read these articles and more at SABR.org/latest.

This Week in SABR is compiled by Jacob Pomrenke. If you would like us to include an upcoming event, article or any other information in “This Week in SABR,” e-mail jpomrenke@sabr.org.

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