SABRcast with Rob Neyer

Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer. SABRcast features insights and analysis of what’s happening in modern baseball on and off the field, plus compelling interviews with figures from around the game — and music from The Baseball Project.

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Neyer is a longtime baseball writer and editor for ESPN.com, SB Nation, and FoxSports.com. He began his career as a research assistant for groundbreaking baseball author Bill James and later worked for STATS, Inc. He has also written or co-written seven baseball books, including The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (with Bill James), winner of the Sporting News/SABR Baseball Research Award, and most recently Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game, winner of the 2019 CASEY Award.

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Episode #248: January 8, 2024

SABRcast #248: Steve Steinberg, Don Zminda, Mitchell Nathanson

This week, Rob hosts an Authors Roundtable to discuss the process of book writing with special guests Steve Steinberg, Don Zminda, and Mitchell Nathanson. Steinberg, a former SABR Seymour Medal winner, is the co-author (with Lyle Spatz) of Mike Donlin: A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen. Zminda, the former president/director of Stats LLC, is the author of recent books on Harry Caray and the Black Sox Scandal. Nathanson, a professor of law at Villanova University, is the author of Under Jackie’s Shadow: Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind.

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What’s Rob Reading?

The Federal Case: A Novel, by J.B. ManheimThe Federal Case: A Novel
By J.B. Manheim

“In 1914 the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs declared itself a “major” league and began pirating players from the established leagues. Ban Johnson, the most powerful man in Major League Baseball, led the fierce resistance to this move. In 1915 Federal League owners filed a lawsuit claiming that the American and National Leagues were restraining trade in violation of the nation’s new antitrust laws. The litigation languished until an informal settlement ended the case—and the league’s existence. But was that the whole story? A century later, young night-schooled lawyer Andy Dennum has landed a position with a prestigious law firm, only to find himself tasked with mucking out the firm’s archive of presumedly dead files.”

Archived Episodes

Episode #247: Andy Andres (January 2, 2024)