Baseball Americana at the Library of Congress, October 2-3
SABR Member's Film to Be Shown at Fourth Annual Baseball Film Festival Returns to Cooperstown Oct. 2-4
25th Anniversary Dinner of the St. Louis Browns Fan Club
Bill James to Appear at The New Yorker Festival
Baseball Americana at the Library of Congress October 2-3 The Library of Congress is holding a symposium entitled "Baseball Americana." It will be a unique celebration of our national pastime, held at the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. The Library's baseball collections are the largest in the world. This has led to the creation of a beautifully illustrated book, Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress, to be published by Harper Collins on September 29, 2009.
In addition, the Library's American Folklife Center has recently acquired a collection of one-of-a-kind oral history interviews with former professional players and managers, organized and conducted by former commissioner of Major League Baseball, Fay Vincent. http://www.loc.gov/folklife/Symposia/Baseball/
Those interested in attending the Friday evening and/or Saturday events should register early. The Friday afternoon events don't require registration. Registration and detail are available online.
SABR Member's Film to Be Shown at Fourth Annual Baseball Film Festival Returns to Cooperstown Oct. 2-4 (COOPERSTOWN, NY): The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will recognize the twin traditions of baseball and film when, for the fourth consecutive year, it hosts the Baseball Film Festival in Cooperstown, Oct. 2-4. One of those films will be "A Braves New World," a Milwaukee Public Television documentary produced by SABR member William Povletich. Povletich, author of the companion book Milwaukee Braves: Heroes and Heartbreak will be on hand for the screening.
IN all, thirteen films, with themes ranging from women in baseball to a baseball league in Israel, will be screened on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as filmmakers compete for three awards given at the conclusion of the festival: The Best Film Award, the Award for Baseball Excellence, and the Award for Film Making Excellence. A complete list of films is available on the Hall of Fame website.
Tickets for the screening of Film Festival entries are free of charge but limited and must be reserved. Members can reserve their tickets immediately, and any remaining seats will made available to the general public beginning Monday, Sept. 28 by calling the Membership department at 607-547-0397 or visiting the Membership desk in the Museum. The Awards Ceremony will be held on Sunday, Oct. 4, at 3 p.m. in the Grandstand Theater and is open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is open seven days a week year round, with the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. The Museum observes regular hours of 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. from Labor Day until Memorial Day Weekend. From Memorial Day through the day before Labor Day, the Museum is open from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. Ticket prices are $16.50 for adults (13 and over), $11 for seniors (65 and over) and for those holding current memberships in the VFW, Disabled American Veterans, American Legion and AMVets organizations, and $6 for juniors (ages 7-12). Members are always admitted free of charge and there is no charge for children 6 years of age or younger. For more information, visit our website at or call 888-HALL-OF-FAME (888-425-5633) or 607-547-7200.
25th Anniversary Dinner of the St. Louis Browns Fan Club Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009 ~ 6:30 pm Missouri Athletic Club 405 Washington Ave., St. Louis, MO 63101
Guest speaker is Mike Veeck, son of Bill Veeck. Veeck is part owner of six baseball teams and is a consultant for one other. In 2005, he was recognized by Baseball America as one of the 25 most influential people in baseball over the last 25 years. read more about Mike at: http://www.funisgood.net/.
Eight Former Browns are currently schedule to attend. Confirmed players include Roy Sievers, Ned Garver, Ed Mickelson, Bud Thomas,, J.W. Porter and Bill Jennings. Invited but not yet confirmed is Tommy Lasorda with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Lasorda spent part of spring training with the Browns in 1953. His attendance will be base on his schedule with the Dodgers during the playoffs.
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Program questions, contact: Bill Rogers: 314-892-8632 stlbrowns@swbell.net
Bill James to Appear at The New Yorker Festival Baseball author and analyst Bill James (BillJamesOnline.com) will
appear with Nate Silver, Sudhir Venkatesh, and Nancy Flournoy on a panel titled
"New Math: Crunching the Numbers" as part of the 10th-Anniversary New
Yorker Festival on Saturday, October 17, 2009. The panel will be held at 10:00
AM at the Cedar Lake Theatre (547
W. 26th St., New York, NY). At 3:00 PM, James will sign copies of
his books at McNally-Jackson Books (52
Prince St., New York, NY).
The panel will discuss the rise of statistical analysis in sports,
economics, and other walks of life. Fellow-panelist Nate Silver is the creator
of FiveThirtyEight.com which
accurately predicted the winner of the 2008 American presidential election in
49 states; Sudhir Venkatesh is a professor of sociology at Columbia University
and the author of Gang Leader for a Day (winner of the best book award
from The Economist); and Nancy Flournoy is a biostatistician and chair
of the statistics department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The panel
will be moderated by Ben McGrath, staff writer at The New Yorker.
