SABR 54
July 29-August 2, 2026
Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel
100 Lakeside Ave E
Cleveland, OH 44114
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The Society for American Baseball Research held its 54th annual convention on July 29–August 2, 2026, at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown in Cleveland, Ohio. Click here to find the full schedule of events.
The annual SABR convention, which is open to all baseball fans, includes top featured speakers from around the baseball world — front office executives, players, managers, scouts, journalists, historians, and analysts — innovative panel discussions, groundbreaking research presentations and poster presentations, committee meetings, ballgames, the SABR Trivia Contest, and most of all, the opportunity to make and renew baseball friendships over the course of this exciting and memorable event.
SABR 54 featured a Major League-sized speaker lineup, alongside an invigorated social experience emphasizing SABR’s ability to unite all of us in baseball fellowship.
Check out stories, photos, and multimedia clips from the SABR 54 convention in Cleveland below.
- Listen to highlights from Chris Antonetti’s welcome remarks (audio)
- Listen to highlights from Bob Kendrick’s fireside chat with Stephanie Liscio (audio)
- Listen to highlights from Tom Hamilton’s Oral History interview with John McMurray (audio)
- View photo galleries from each day at SABR 54
- Anthony Salazar selected as 2026 Bob Davids Award recipient
- Levon Nazarian, Chuck Hildebrandt win 2026 convention presentation awards
- Bob DiBiasio, Jim Folk honored with 2026 SABR Roland Hemond Award
- SABR chapters, committees honored for exceptional performance in 2025-26
- Scott Kent comes home with plenty of hardware in SABR 54 Trivia Contest
- Overlooked 19th Century Base Ball Legends project concludes with final 8 selections
- Cecilia Tan: 9 Things I Learned at SABR 54 (Why I Like Baseball)
- Jason Schwartz: Baseball Cards Committee Recap of SABR 54 (SABR Baseball Cards)
- Marc Bona: ‘Baseball Art as the Game’s Storyteller’ on display in downtown Cleveland (Cleveland.com)
- Justice B. Hill: A powerful voice Cleveland needs to hear about League Park’s future is coming here (Cleveland.com)
- Stay tuned for more highlights, stories, and photos from SABR 54 soon!
Featured Speakers
Click here to learn more about our Featured Speakers at SABR 54
- Chris Antonetti, Cleveland Guardians President of Baseball Operations
- Moderator: Vince Guerrieri, president of SABR’s Jack Graney Cleveland Chapter
- Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City
- Moderator: Stephanie Liscio, author of Integrating Cleveland Baseball: Media Activism, the Integration of the Indians, and the Demise of the Negro League Buckeyes
Oral History interview: Tom Hamilton
- Tom Hamilton, Cleveland Guardians broadcaster and 2025 Ford C. Frick Award recipient
- Moderator: John McMurray, chair of SABR’s Oral History Committee
1990s Cleveland Indians Panel
- Sandy Alomar Jr., 1990 American League Rookie of the Year, Gold Glove-winning catcher, and 1997 All-Star Game MVP
- Carlos Baerga, fan favorite as a switch-hitting second baseman during his 14-year major league career
- Mike Hargrove, who won two AL pennants and 5 consecutive AL Central Division titles as Cleveland’s manager from 1991 to 1999
- Kenny Lofton, all-around star center fielder who holds Cleveland franchise record for stolen bases
- Charles Nagy, three-time All-Star pitcher and Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame inductee
- Moderator: Paul Hoynes, Cleveland Plain Dealer sports writer and BBWAA Career Excellence Award recipient
Cleveland Guardians Baseball Analytics Panel
- Sky Andrecheck, Assistant General Manager, Cleveland Guardians
- Keith Woolner, Principal Data Scientist, Baseball Analytics, Cleveland Guardians
- Kyle Burris, Director, Research & Development, Cleveland Guardians
- Moderator: Zack Meisel, The Athletic
60th Anniversary of the MLB Players Association Panel
- Mark Armour, award-winning author and baseball historian
- Ezra Frankel, Director of Baseball Economics, MLB Players Association
- Mike Haupert, Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
- Dan Levitt, award-winning author and baseball historian
- Moderator: Katie Krall, SABR Director and professor at Northwestern University
Major League film screening and Q&A
- David S. Ward, Academy Award-winning writer and director of Major League
- Moderator: Jonathan Knight, author of The Making of Major League: A Juuuust a Bit Inside Look at the Classic Baseball Comedy
Learning the Score: Bats, Balls, and Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Billy Altman, founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and a Major League Baseball official scorer
All guests must adhere to SABR’s Event Code of Conduct at all times. We are dedicated to maintaining an open, inclusive environment at all SABR events.
- SABR Convention History: Click here for a multimedia look back at every SABR convention since 1971.