As SABR celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2021, we are excited to both commemorate our history and look forward to our shared vision of the organization’s future. We hope you are able to join us as we continue to come together in thoughtful baseball fellowship, since SABR could not have reached this golden milestone without members like you. The virtual Summer of SABR: Golden Celebration Series will be a highlight of this year’s festivities, filled with compelling research presentations and panel discussions, including the return of the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference.
As a nonprofit organization, SABR relies on the generosity of donors and members to thrive. We hope you will consider a donation to sustain and grow our wonderful baseball community.
By joining our FUTURE 50 Campaign, you will help ensure SABR’s next 50 years are even brighter than the first 50.
You can support SABR’s Future 50 Campaign by making a gift of at least $100 by June 4, 2021. We will use your best gift of $100, $300, $500, or $1,000 to boost initiatives in several key areas of SABR’s mission:
- Research: continued support for groundbreaking baseball-related research, books, and articles, while adding new research tools and databases for members like the recently announced access to Newspapers.com.
- Scholarship: furthering the reach and impact of SABR’s world-class committees and conferences with expanded virtual offerings to augment in-person events, like the Summer of SABR: Golden Celebration Series.
- Preservation: digitization of the impressive Rucker Archive, and commitment to upholding the stories and lives of those who should not be forgotten or overlooked.
- Future of the Game: creation of a new SABR certification curriculum and development of student and professional programming to share our passion for the game with a younger, broader audience.
SABR has been fortunate to swell its membership ranks to more than 6,800 — an increase of more than 1,300 year-over-year. The above improvements to the organizational mission will help us grow membership to an all-time high, an appropriate milestone for our 50th anniversary.
In addition, all donors joining the Future 50 Campaign with a gift of $100 or more will receive the following:
$100 or more
- SABR 50th Anniversary lapel pin
- Complimentary registration to the Summer of SABR: Golden Celebration Series
- Recognition in This Week in SABR and on SABR.org
$300 or more
- Paperback edition of The National Pastime: The Future According to Baseball journal. (The 2021 issue of The National Pastime will focus on the future through the lens of baseball. Just as baseball is a reflection of culture and society in both the past and present, it can also serve as catalyst, context, and predictor of change.)
- SABR 50th Anniversary lapel pin
- Complimentary registration to the Summer of SABR: Golden Celebration Series
- Recognition in This Week in SABR and on SABR.org
$500 or more
- Customized SABR Dugout Mug featuring 50th Anniversary logo
- Paperback edition of The National Pastime: The Future According to Baseball journal
- SABR 50th Anniversary lapel pin
- Complimentary registration to the Summer of SABR: Golden Celebration Series
- Recognition in This Week in SABR and on SABR.org
- Recognition during an upcoming Summer of SABR virtual event
Also, ten randomly selected donors will win an autographed copy of Eric Nusbaum’s 2021 Seymour Medal-winning book Stealing Home.
Thank you so much for your consideration in joining the Future 50 Campaign. With your support, SABR will continue to be the world’s essential baseball community for the next 50 years and beyond!