Jacob Pomrenke
Jacob Pomrenke is SABR’s Director of Editorial Content. He has been a SABR member since 1998 and is the chairman and newsletter editor for the Black Sox Scandal Research Committee. He is the editor of Scandal on the South Side: The 1919 Chicago White Sox, published by SABR in 2015, and the Eight Myths Out project in 2019. He has also moderated panel discussions at the SABR Annual Convention on Shoeless Joe Jackson (2010, Atlanta), the 50th anniversary of Eight Men Out (2013, Philadelphia), and the 100th anniversary of the 1919 World Series (2019, San Diego). He has appeared as a subject-matter expert on baseball scandals on MLB Network’s Triumph and Tragedy: The 1919 Chicago White Sox (2010), PBS NewsHour (2019), ESPN’s Backstory: Banned* For Life (2020), and other programs. He is also a member of the Baseball Records, Deadball Era and BioProject committees and his work has appeared in the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Memories and Dreams magazine, The National Pastime Museum, Seamheads.com, and other outlets. Before he joined the SABR staff in 2011, he spent 10 years working as a reporter, page designer and editor at the North County Times and San Bernardino Sun newspapers in California, and The Times in Gainesville, Georgia. Find more of his work at jacobpomrenke.com.
SABR books edited by Jacob Pomrenke
SABR BioProject biographies written by Jacob Pomrenke
SABR Games Project stories written by Jacob Pomrenke
- April 23, 1919: Lefty Williams, White Sox win in Kid Gleason’s managerial debut
- January 26, 1919: The Flu Mask Baseball Game
- April 12, 1918: Red Faber, White Sox win exhibition game in epicenter of influenza pandemic
- October 7, 1917: Red Faber’s pitching, not baserunning, lead to White Sox victory in Game 2
SABR Journal Articles written by Jacob Pomrenke
- 1919 White Sox: Introduction
- 1919 American League salaries
- 1919 White Sox: Walking Off to the World Series
- 1919 White Sox: The Pitching Depth Dilemma
- 1919 White Sox: Prologue (Offseason, 1918-19)
- 1919 White Sox: Epilogue (Offseason, 1919-20)
- 1918 Winter Meetings: Baseball Returns from the Great War
- 1919 Winter Meetings: The End of the Deadball Era
- No ‘Solid Front of Silence’: The Forgotten Black Sox Scandal Interviews
- Bringing Home the Bacon: How the Black Sox Got Back into Baseball
SABR Research Topics written by Jacob Pomrenke
SABR Research Articles written by Jacob Pomrenke
SABR Ballparks written by Jacob Pomrenke