Evans, Nowlin, McClure elected to SABR Board of Directors in 2025
MAY 8, 2025 — SABR members have elected Dan Evans, Bill Nowlin, and Bruce McClure to the organization’s Board of Directors in the 2025 election.
Dan Evans was elected as SABR’s Board President, receiving 862 of 874 first-preference votes.
Nowlin and McClure were elected as SABR Directors. Nowlin received 352 first-preference votes and was elected first in SABR’s simplified preferential voting system after 30 rounds of balloting. McClure received 183 first-preference votes and was elected second after voting preferences were transferred in 30 rounds of balloting. Both Directors will serve a three-year term through 2028.
Director candidate Tyrone Brooks received 231 first-preference votes, but was outvoted 411-394 in the final round of balloting for the second open seat.
Other candidates and their first-preference voting totals:
- Bill Pearch (128)
- Milbert O. Brown Jr. (38)
Evans’s election as President creates a vacancy for a Director’s seat, and a candidate will be appointed by the Board of Directors. Any SABR member who is interested in filling the rest of that seat’s term — which begins at the conclusion of the Annual Business Meeting at SABR 53 in June and runs until 2026 — should fill out the candidate statement form and send an email to Mark Armour.
Evans was elected to his first term as SABR Board President after he was appointed as a Director in 2021. He is a baseball executive who has had decision-making roles with five Major League Baseball franchises over the past four decades, including a stint as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2001 to 2004 and, most recently, a scout and Director of Pacific Rim Operations for the Toronto Blue Jays. He is the President of Baseball Operations for Athelyix Inc., mentors Sports Management Worldwide’s Baseball GM & Scouting online course, a Baseball-Reference Brand Ambassador, former Chief Operating Officer of The Field of Dreams Movie Site, and past president of the SABR Rocky Mountain Chapter. He is a native of Chicago and a graduate of DePaul University. He lives in Ankeny, Iowa.
Nowlin was elected as SABR’s Vice President in 2004 and re-elected for five more terms before stepping down in 2016, when he was elected as a Director. He has specialized in Red Sox research since he turned to writing and research in the late 1990s and has written, edited, or co-edited more than 75 books and more than 750 articles, many of which are Red Sox-related. He is one of three founders of Rounder Records, one of America’s most successful independent record labels. A member of the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, he has also traveled widely, visiting more than 125 countries to date, and has occasionally taught courses at Boston-area universities on “Baseball and Politics” and Sportswriting. He was the 2011 winner of the Bob Davids Award, SABR’s highest honor. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This is McClure’s first term as a Director; he has been a SABR member since 2021. He serves as founder and chair of the Clyde Sukeforth Chapter in Northern New England, social media director for the SABR Baseball Memories chartered community; and as a Membership Ambassador. He has worked with the New Britain Rock Cats and as a co-host of the Baseball’s Last Frontier: Stories From the Pecos League podcast. He lives in New London, New Hampshire.
Special thanks to Tellers Committee members Stephen Barnes, Steve Ginader, and Alex Marks for certifying the results on May 8 in a virtual meeting and to the Nominations Committee of Stew Thornley, Chris Dial, and Joanne Hulbert for their help in preparing the candidate statements.
The 2025 SABR elections featured online voting for the 16th consecutive year as well as traditional paper ballots. A total of 934 votes were received, constituting about 12.62 percent of the membership.
SABR members can find complete 2025 election results, including write-in candidates and voting totals, posted here.
A historical list of SABR’s Board of Directors can be found by clicking here. Past voting totals can be found here.
Originally published: May 9, 2025. Last Updated: May 8, 2025.