| Baseball Labor Relations Strike Up Research Interest |
| For Immediate Release August 27, 2002 |
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) has its eye on baseball’s current labor talks from a research point-of-view.
With the help of Doug Pappas, Chair of the SABR Business of Baseball Research Committee, SABR has put together sources for anyone interested in the history of baseball labor relations. Here is some suggested reading:
In Print
Charles P. Korr, The End of Baseball As We knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81
Paul D. Staudohar, ed., Diamond Mines: Baseball and Labor
Roger I. Abrams: The Money Pitch: Baseball Free Agency and Salary Arbitration
Out of Print
Lee Lowenfish, The Imperfect Diamond
John Helyar, Lords of the Realm
Marvin Miller, A Whole Different Ball Game
A more extensive list of baseball labor research sources is available at SABR’s The Baseball Index. TBI, at www.baseballindex.org, is an online catalog to baseball research containing references to over 175,000 index records (citations) to books, articles, song sheets, yearbooks, advertisements, media guides, cartoons, poems, media guides, cartoons, and more. It is by far the most extensive index/bibliography to baseball literature, its coverage many times that of existing paper indexes and bibliographies.
Since 1971, members of SABR have gained a unique reputation within the baseball community for gathering and sharing new and novel information about the game. The research efforts of SABR members are aided, in part, by SABR research committees. These committees serve to network those members interested in discovering more about particular aspects of the game.
The Business of Baseball Committee was founded in 1994 to study all aspects of baseball administration and off-the-field activity including economic, organizational, labor and legal issues. Pappas maintains his own website with current updates on baseball labor issues at http://www.roadsidephotos.com/baseball/laborstatus.htm .
SABR (pronounced “Saber”) is an international organization headquartered in Cleveland, OH. The Society's mission is to foster the study of baseball, to assist in developing and maintaining the history of the game, to facilitate the dissemination of baseball research and to stimulate interest in baseball.
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