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SABR 53: Research Presentations

Learn more about our SABR 53 research presentations on this page. Click here to learn more about the poster presentations on display at SABR 53. Abstracts and presenter bios will be available soon.

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  • Paul Allen, “Bright Lights, Black Stars”
  • Mark Armour, “How Many Games Did Satchel Paige Pitch?”
  • John Bauer, “The Death of a League: The Fall of the American Association, 1952-1962
  • Chris Betsch, “How the 1910 Athletics Got Babe Ruth Suspended (Sort of)”
  • Melissa Booker, “The Knuckleball: Baseball’s Magical Pitch”
  • Tom Bowen, “Gone But Not Forgotten: A Tour of Lost Dallas/Fort Worth Professional Ballparks of the 20th Century”
  • John J. Burbridge Jr., “Billy Martin in Texas”
  • Jude Butler, “The Legacy and Future of Baseball in Fort Worth”
  • Eric Bynum, “The Texas League Controversy of 1914”
  • Hunhee Cho and Eunwoo Jung, “How Gen Z’ers in Korea Sparked a New Era of 10 Million Baseball Fans”
  • Alan Cohen, “The Great Negro League Home Run Log”
  • Adam Darowski, “Julio, Ichiro, Miñoso, and … Carrillo? Professional Baseball’s 4,000 Hit Club”
  • David Firstman, “Khris Davis: ‘Mr. .247′”
  • Robert F. Garratt, “Baysball: the Giants, the A’s and the 1989 Earthquake Series”
  • Brenden Gilbreath, “Heroes Get Remembered, But Legends Never Die: Properly Recognizing the Contributions of Negro League Veterans”
  • Mike Haupert, “Babe Ruth’s Anomalous 1929 Season: Why Did His Bases on Balls Plummet?”
  • Paul Jackson, “A Haunted Player: The Impact of Stigma and Superstition on the Career of a Deadball Catcher”
  • Chris Jaffe, “How Slow Was Steve Trachsel? How Fast Was Mark Buehrle?”
  • Jem Jebbia, “From Fernandomania to Sho-Time: The Evolution of Media in Legacy Construction”
  • Justin Krebs, “Citizen Rosebud: Jesse Owens, the 1946 Portland Rosebuds, and the Story of the West Coast Negro Baseball Association”
  • R.J. Lesch, “The Giants in Marlin, 1908-1918”
  • Allison Levin, “Dying to Diehard: Growing Fan Identification Through Gamification”
  • Daniel R. Levitt, “The Merkle Aftermath: Two Weeks of Giants Shenanigans”
  • John Nogowski, “Don’t Forget Harry Heilmann!”
  • Ebenezer Olubayode, “The Influence of Bat Speed and Swing Length on Fouling Off 2-Strike Pitches: A Bayesian Causal Analysis”
  • Mark Panuthos, “Al Lopez and the 1925 Florida State League Championship”
  • John Racanelli, “Baseball’s Mad Scientist: James E. Bennett”
  • Rick Reiff, “Gavy Cravath: His Time is Now”
  • Stephen V. Rice, “The Baseball Portraits of Carl J. Horner, 1902-1909”
  • Jason Schwartz, “The “Savior” Does Not Answer Letters: Dave Hoskins and the Uneven, Unheralded, and Unfinished Integration of the Texas League”
  • Neal D. Traven, “More-Than-One and Done”
  • Steve Treder, “From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Ownerships of the (Oakland) Athletics, 1980-2025”

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