Supplemental.2014-TNP – Society for American Baseball Research https://sabr.org Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:02:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Get your copy of “Houston Baseball: The Early Years 1861-1961” https://sabr.org/journal/article/get-your-copy-of-houston-baseball-the-early-years-1861-1961/ Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:49:59 +0000 http://dev.sabr.org/journal_articles/get-your-copy-of-houston-baseball-the-early-years-1861-1961/ All SABR 44 convention attendees received a free copy of Houston Baseball: The Early Years 1861-1961, edited by Mike Vance and produced by SABR’s Larry Dierker Chapter, as part of their registration goody bag.

The story of Houston’s transition from the minors to a Major League city is one that includes all manner of politics, personalities and back room deals that feature some of the biggest names in the sport. Houston Baseball: The Early Years 1861-1961 also has chapters on the black baseball teams in Houston that ran on a parallel course in the days of segregation. It has amateur, women’s and youth baseball, high school and college teams and even covers the media that covered baseball. There is an amazing collection of stories on the days when Houston was a Spring Training site and on the numerous exhibitions that brought the cream of the big league crop through town. 

Richly illustrated and expertly told, Houston Baseball: The Early Years 1861-1961 is a story for all fans of Houston baseball and Houston history. Learn more about the book or order at Amazon.com.

]]> Editor’s note: Baseball in the Space Age https://sabr.org/journal/article/editors-note-baseball-in-the-space-age/ Sat, 19 Jul 2014 02:53:02 +0000 http://dev.sabr.org/journal_articles/editors-note-baseball-in-the-space-age/ A note from the editor of The National Pastime.

This issue of The National Pastime is dedicated to baseball in Houston since 1961. For the past several years, each annual issue of TNP has centered on the geographic area of SABR’s summer convention site. Since the convention moves around, that has given us great range: Philadelphia, Minnesota, Southern California have hosted recent conventions and corresponding issues of TNP have been produced. But this is the first one that will have a time-limited component as well as a geographic one. Why? SABR’s Houston chapter is releasing a book for the convention, too: Houston Baseball: The Early Years, 1861–1961. (Visit HoustonBaseball.org to order your copy of that book.)

Houston Baseball is a gorgeous hardcover book and will be given to each attendee of the convention. With the first hundred years of Houston baseball covered so thoroughly in that publication, it made sense to focus The National Pastime for this summer on the space age and the arrival of Major League Baseball in the region. So here we have a special issue centered almost entirely on the Houston Astros (née Colt .45s) and their two influential and iconic homes, short-lived Colt Stadium and the Astrodome.

The Houston MLB franchise has been around only slightly longer than I have, but the Colts/Astros have amassed more than their share of history in the five-plus decades since their launch. Friends in Texas always tell me that “everything is bigger in Texas,” and that certainly applies to the role of the Astrodome in pop culture, and to the outsize personality of team owner Roy Hofheinz, who was one part P.T. Barnum, two parts George Steinbrenner, and all Texan.

If you weren’t able to attend the convention in Houston, please enjoy reading this issue of The National Pastime as your virtual trip to “Space City” in the Lone Star State. Seventeen SABR members will be your tour guides. Happy reading!

CECILIA M. TAN is SABR’s Publications Editor. She can be reached at ctan@sabr.org.

]]> Download the 2014 TNP e-book https://sabr.org/journal/article/download-the-2014-tnp-e-book/ Sat, 19 Jul 2014 02:44:27 +0000 http://dev.sabr.org/journal_articles/download-the-2014-tnp-e-book/ Since 2009, The National Pastime has served as SABR’s convention-focused publication. Published annually, this research journal provides in-depth articles focused on the respective geographic region where the national convention is taking place in a given year. All SABR members receive a free e-book copy of The National Pastime as part of their membership benefits, while attendees of the national convention also receive a souvenir print edition in their goody bags.

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]]> The National Pastime: Baseball in the Space Age (Houston, 2014) https://sabr.org/journals/baseball-in-the-space-age/ Sat, 19 Jul 2014 02:43:25 +0000 http://dev.sabr.org/journal/baseball-in-the-space-age/