Learn more about recipients of SABR Local Grants in 2025
MARCH 17, 2025 — SABR is pleased to announce the recipients of Local Grants in 2025:
- Connie Mack-Dick Allen Chapter (Philadelphia, PA)
Philadelphia Negro Leagues Student Research Scholarships
Two scholarships for St. Joseph’s University students to research and create panels for a Negro Leagues exhibit to be permanently installed on campus. - Boston Chapter (Boston, MA)
Sea Foam House commemorative storyboard
Installing a commemorative storyboard at the site of the Sea Foam House in Hull, Massachusetts, the location for the first baseball game played under artificial light in 1880, more than five decades before the first major-league night game was played. - Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter (St. Louis, MO)
150th anniversary of St. Louis’s first major-league game
Funding a baseball event at Lindell Field in St. Louis’s Forest Park neighborhood. The centerpiece of the event will be a recreation of an 1875 baseball game between the St. Louis Brown Stockings and Boston Red Stockings, along with preprinted scorecards, programs, and a band to play period songs. - Roush-Lopez Gulf Coast Chapter (Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL)
St. Petersburg Spring Training Trolley Tour
Helping to produce printed materials for a monthly trolley tour around St. Petersburg’s historic spring training sites. Printed materials will promote both the tour and SABR. - Lefty O’Doul Bay Area Chapter (San Francisco, CA)
Lefty O’Doul Grave Marker Restoration
Funding the restoration of the local SABR chapter namesake’s gravestone at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. Among the repairs include repainting and sealing the .349 career batting average originally etched on the marble baseball at the monument. - Allan Roth Chapter (Los Angeles, CA)
Manzanar Baseball Project historical re-enactment
Contributing to a historical re-enactment of an all-star game featuring descendants of former incarcerees of Manzanar and other World War II-era internment camps, in addition to other members of California-based Japanese-American teams. This game, hosted by Great Leap Inc. and the Manzanar National Historic Site, will be viewed by 500 spectators on-site, as well as live-streamed and recorded to be archived online. The project aims to serve 5,000 people via digital platforms. SABR will be announced live, before and during the game, as well as acknowledged in all digital and printed materials.
The SABR Local Grants program provides an opportunity for chapters, research committees, and chartered communities to apply for funding for their projects under SABR’s Four Pillars: Research, Scholarship, Preservation, and Future of the Game. In total, $10,000 in SABR Local Grants will be awarded in 2025.
Click here to learn more about the 2024 Local Grant recipients.
All SABR chapters, chartered communities, and research committees are eligible to apply for future Local Grants. If you have an individual idea for a program grant, please follow up with your local chapter leadership or appropriate research committee to discuss an application.
To learn more, visit SABR.org/local-grants.
Originally published: March 17, 2025. Last Updated: March 15, 2025.