Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, September 12,…
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 — All SABR members exclusively receive the…
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2025 — SABR is pleased to announce the continuation…
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The 1945 Negro World Series, the final one before the desegregation…
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The 1945 East-West Game at Comiskey Park in Chicago was the 15th…
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The Brooklyn Dodgers’ relocation to Los Angeles was not yet…
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If the Philadelphia Phillies played their August 7, 1969, exhibition…
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Salary arbitration can drive a wedge between a player and team…
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All student and young professional members of SABR are invited…
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Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, September 5,…
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With no one out, the bases loaded, and his team holding a four-run…
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It was probably no great surprise when the city of Flint, Michigan,…
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The Chicago Cubs opened 1982 with rookie Ryne Sandberg at third…
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Melodramatic as it may sound, the Seattle Mariners were fighting…
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Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, August 29, 2025.…
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True, a hitter going for .400 doesn’t like outs – but was…
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Charles “Doc” Kanupp was a minor-league fixture who came…
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St. Louis Cardinals fans were pumped for the arrival of the Los…
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This Week in SABR: September 12, 2025
Subscribe to the Fall 2025 print edition of the SABR Baseball Research Journal
Tommy Cahill
Jim McGinley
SABR and Deborah Marshall to honor student biomechanics research with award recognition
September 13-20, 1945: Cleveland Buckeyes sweep Homestead Grays to win Negro League World Series
July 29, 1945: West offense lights up Comiskey Park to break deadlock in Negro League all-star series
September 22, 1957: Don Drysdale defeats Robin Roberts in Dodgers’ next-to-last game at Ebbets Field; Jim Gentile belts first home run
August 7, 1969: Awash in drama, Phillies punt exhibition against farm team in Reading
June 5, 1995: Big Unit baffles Birdland bats, Buhner bashes Big Ben
Announcing finalists for 2025 Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award
Join us on October 20 for a special SABR Scholar Session for students and young professionals with Josh Kalk and Josh Ruffin
This Week in SABR: September 5, 2025
Scott Brosius (2025)
May 23, 1901: Chicago’s Clark Griffith intentionally walks Philadelphia’s Nap Lajoie with bases loaded to help preserve victory
September 5, 1951: Two paying fans watch minor league pitchers’ duel between Grand Rapids, Flint
April 23, 1982: Rookie Ryne Sandberg records first two homers as Cubs drop slugfest to Pirates
May 26, 1995: As future of baseball in Seattle hangs in balance, Ken Griffey Jr. breaks wrist
This Week in SABR: August 29, 2025
August 31, 1941: Ted Williams hits one into a stiff wind for 31st home run of season
June 5, 1970: Cocó Laboy’s ninth-inning homer snaps Montreal Expos’ 11-game skid
June 5, 1970: Indians, Red Sox affiliates face off in veteran minor-league umpire’s last game
July 11, 1975: Walter Alston booed in St. Louis but Dodgers win
April 29, 2008: Max Scherzer retires 13 straight, fans 7 in perfect debut for Diamondbacks