This Week in SABR: April 10, 2015
Welcome to “This Week in SABR!” Here’s what we’ve been up to as of April 10, 2015:
SABR 45: Get your tickets now for a special concert with The Baseball Project
Attendees at the SABR 45 convention this summer in Chicago will have a special opportunity to see The Baseball Project in concert on Thursday, June 25, 2015, in the Grand Ballroom at the Palmer House Hilton.
Advance presale tickets for The Baseball Project at SABR 45 are available for an early-bird price of $25 members/$40 non-members when you register for the SABR convention online at SABR.org/convention before May 15, 2015. Tickets will be $40 online after May 15 or until the concert venue reaches capacity.
Formed in 2007 by Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5, R.E.M.) and Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3, Gutterball), The Baseball Project began as a way for a couple of fans to pay musical tribute to our national pastime. But The Baseball Project has since blossomed into a full-fledged, much-loved band in its own right, one which includes drummer Linda Pitmon (Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3, Zuzu’s Petals), and Peter Buck and Mike Mills, founding members of R.E.M., one of the best-selling alternative rock bands of all time.
Their mutual love of baseball inspired them to record their first album, Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails, in 2008. It includes baseball-themed songs such as “Gratitude (For Curt Flood),” “The Yankee Flipper,” and “The Death of Big Ed Delahanty.” They followed up with Volume 2: High and Inside in 2011, which features the San Francisco Giants World Series-themed hit “Panda and the Freak” along with “Tony (Boston’s Chosen Son)” and “The Straw that Stirs the Drink.” Their third album, 3rd, was released in 2014.
To learn more about The Baseball Project, visit their website at thebaseballproject.net or their YouTube channel at youtube.com/thebaseballproject.
(Note: For those interested, The Baseball Project concert will not conflict with the SABR 45 Trivia Contest preliminaries on the schedule.)
Registration for SABR 45 is now available at SABR.org/convention.
SABR 45: Hotel room block at Palmer House Hilton almost sold out
Are you planning to come to SABR 45 this summer in Chicago? Our hotel room block at the Palmer House Hilton is almost sold out, so book your room today.
Join us June 24-28, 2015, at the Palmer House Hilton for a full week of baseball fun at SABR 45. Click here to book your room at the Palmer House Hilton online. The deadline to book your room at the SABR group rate of $189/night (plus tax) is 11:59 p.m. MST Friday, May 15, 2015, or until our room block is full.
The Palmer House Hilton is at 17 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603, in the heart of the downtown Loop, near two CTA stops — from O’Hare Airport, take the Blue Line to Monroe/Dearborn stop and then walk two blocks east on Monroe; from Midway Airport, take the Orange Line to the Adams/Wabash stop. If you have any questions about your reservation, please call the hotel at (312) 726-7500.
For more information on SABR 45, visit SABR.org/convention.
- Note: If you have already reserved your hotel room but have NOT registered to attend SABR 45, please go ahead and do that soon so we can get a more accurate count of our room block capacity. Early registration is available until May 15. Click here to register for SABR 45.
SABR member Roland Hemond honored with Phoenix youth field in his name
The Arizona Diamondbacks dedicated Roland Hemond Field on Thursday at Alkire Park in Phoenix, honoring the longtime SABR member as part of the “Diamonds Back” Youth Field Building Program, presented by APS.
Diamondbacks President and CEO Derrick Hall, Chief Baseball Officer Tony La Russa, and former All-Star Luis Gonzalez were on hand, along with other local dignitaries and many members of the Hemond family who flew in for the ceremony.
“What a wonderful career he has had,” Hall said. “No one has had more influence on the game of baseball than Roland Hemond. … I, too, am one of them. He has been a great mentor and adviser to me.”
The new ballfield is the latest in a series of accolades for the revered baseball executive who has spent more than six decades in the game. In 2011, Hemond became the second recipient of the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Buck O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award and was honored during Induction Week in Cooperstown, New York. For the past 14 years, SABR’s Scouts Research Committee has given out the annual Roland Hemond Award, which recognizes the baseball executive who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to professional baseball scouts and scouting, baseball’s unsung heroes who are near and dear to his heart. Roland himself was its first recipient. Later that year, he was crowned “King of Baseball” by Minor League Baseball at their annual Winter Meetings banquet.
Click here to view more photos and video of the scoreboard unveiling: http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-member-roland-hemond-honored-arizona-diamondbacks-youth-field-his-name
- Audio: Listen to Diamondbacks President/CEO Derrick Hall talk about Roland Hemond’s career and influence (MP3)
Read the Spring 2015 Baseball Research Journal online
SABR members, you can now read articles from the Spring 2015 edition of the Baseball Research Journal online at SABR.org:
http://sabr.org/research/spring-2015-baseball-research-journal
Those of you who receive the print edition should find your BRJ arriving in the next two to three weeks (if you haven’t gotten it already!) For digital subscribers, the e-book edition was delivered to your inboxes last week.
Here’s a note from Publications Editor Cecilia Tan about the Spring 2015 BRJ:
Spring is here! I don’t care if I still have six-foot high snow mounds in front of my house. If baseball season is here, it is officially spring, and winter can go stuff it. Migratory birds are onto something, leaving town and then coming back just in time for Opening Day and baseball season. I’m ready for a new season to unspool into history.
Every season has its twists and surprises. To be prepared for some of what’s to come, I just peeked at MLB.com’s “milestones” tracker. I see it predicts that if Alex Rodriguez returns to the field (as is currently expected) and stays healthy, he’ll pass the 3,000-hit milestone by mid-June. In fact, he’s poised to climb several of the all-time records lists; hits, runs scored, home runs, RBIs, games played, and a few other choice stats-ladders could see him moving up several rungs. But Rodriguez has demonstrated an uncanny knack for eliciting criticism in the face of success which will add intrigue to the numbers. If he passes Joe Morgan (34th) on the games-played list, or Stan Musial (8th) on the runs-scored list, comparisons beyond mere numbers will be inevitable. Can “character” be quantified?
I don’t mean that as a rhetorical question. I believe in the future we will see “intangibles” made tangible, “team chemistry” formulas, and psychological “makeup” measured in a useful way. Any major league team that believes they’ll find value and competitive advantage in it will be studying it. Scott Boras, when addressing the SABR convention in 2011, spoke at length about Harvey Dorfman, a pioneer in the mental aspect of baseball training. An article in this issue discusses Dorfman’s life and works.
The difference between a team’s Decision Sciences experts and many of us in SABR is this: their job is to look forward, our job is to look back. But ultimately the goal is the same: understand this game. We are still probing for ways to account for comparisons across eras, not only deadball/live ball but PED/non-PED. Our search for understanding requires cleaning the dataset, as Herm Krabbenhoft is doing with pre-1920 RBI records, and imagining what might have happened if things had been different, as Chuck Hildebrandt (with the help of thousands of SABR voters) did with simulations of All-Star Games that never were. We look at the rules and how they’ve changed, from Richard Hershberger’s discussion of the origin of the “dropped third strike” rule to Gil Imber’s analysis of the oh-so-recent introduction of video instant replay to MLB.
Stats show us unlikely is not the same as impossible, and that our idea of “usual” may be unusual. A “typical” issue of the Baseball Research Journal contains 15–20 articles which are “usually” between 2,500 and 6,500 words long. That is like saying the typical big-league inning has five batters who see five pitches each. (I’m making those numbers up, by the way: I’m certain someone has determined the actual means and medians.) But what is memorable is often what is atypical or unusual. This issue of the BRJ is atypical in that it contains fewer articles than usual, but several are longer than usual, which balances out. Like we always say, you have to play the games.
Play ball!
To learn more about contributing to a future SABR publication, click here.
We hope you enjoy reading the Spring 2015 Baseball Research Journal!
Look for 2015 SABR election ballot in your e-mail next week
SABR members, the 2015 Board of Directors election beginning on April 15 will include four ballot items: the election of the SABR President, Secretary, one Director’s position, and one By-Laws amendment change.
The candidates up for election are:
For President
- Vince Gennaro (incumbent)
For Secretary
- Todd Lebowitz (incumbent)
For Director
- George R. Skornickel
- Ty Waterman (incumbent)
You can read the proposed By-Laws changes, candidate biographies, along with full descriptions of the positions and responses the candidates made to a series of questions, in the 2015 SABR Election Guide below:
All members with an e-mail address on file as of April 1, 2015, will receive an e-mail on Wednesday, April 15 with a link to vote online in the 2015 SABR Board of Directors election. The poll will close at 11:59 p.m. Mountain Standard Time on Wednesday, April 29, 2015. The only way to vote online is through the link you will receive by e-mail. All e-mails will come from the address tellers@sabr.org; if you wish to add it to a whitelist in your e-mail client, that may help ensure that you will receive the e-mails.
For more information on the 2015 SABR election, click here.
SABR 45: Early registration, all-inclusive discounts close on May 15
Early registration for the SABR 45 convention, June 24-28, 2015, in Chicago, is now available at SABR.org/convention. Just a reminder that our ticket block for the Cubs-Dodgers game on Thursday, June 25 at Wrigley Field is limited and the game is expected to sell out. Game tickets in the SABR block will not be available after early registration ends on May 15 and will not be sold on-site during the convention.
Click here for complete information on SABR 45 registration rates, all-inclusive packages, and optional sessions. Or click here to register for SABR 45. More details on guest speakers, panelists, and presenters will be announced soon.
- Conference registration: Click here for complete information on SABR 45 registration rates. Once again, we’re offering a discounted all-inclusive package for the annual SABR convention. For a savings of $44 off the regular rate, SABR members can get:
— 1 full conference registration (regular rate: $199)
— Choose: 1 Upper Deck Box ticket to the Cubs game on Thursday, June 25 (regular: $48) OR 1 Terrace Reserved ticket (regular: $38)
— 1 round-trip ticket on the CTA Red Line train to and from Wrigley Field (regular: $6)
— 1 ticket to the Awards Luncheon on Friday, June 26 (regular: $50)The all-inclusive package is available to SABR members for $259 with an Upper Deck Box ticket or $249 with a Terrace Reserved ticket to the Cubs game instead, plus all of the above amenities. Please note: The all-inclusive packages are only available until May 15, 2015. Click here to register for SABR 45.
- Cubs ballgame: At SABR 45, we’ll be attending the Cubs-Dodgers game on Thursday afternoon, June 25, at Wrigley Field. The SABR block of tickets is available in two sections when you register: Upper Deck Box-Outfield ($48) or Terrace Reserved-Outfield ($38). This game is expected to sell out and our ticket block is only available on a first-come, first-serve basis through Friday, May 15, 2015. Game tickets in the SABR block will NOT be available for purchase on-site at the convention. Please note: Your purchase of a SABR 45 all-inclusive package includes round-trip transportation to and from Wrigley Field on the CTA Red Line train. (Purchasing a game ticket as part of regular/a la carte registration does NOT include transportation.) Click here for more details on SABR 45 registration.
- The Baseball Project concert: On Thursday evening, June 25, SABR 45 attendees will have a special opportunity to see The Baseball Project in concert in the Grand Ballroom at the Palmer House Hilton. Advance presale tickets are available for $25 members/$40 non-members when you register for SABR 45 before May 15, 2015. Tickets will be $40 online after May 15 or until the concert venue reaches capacity. Click here for more details.
Please note: The SABR 45 all-inclusive package includes 1 full conference registration; 1 ticket to the Cubs game on Thursday, June 25; 1 round-trip ticket on the CTA Red Line train; and 1 ticket to the Awards Luncheon on Friday, June 26. It does NOT include any other optional events such as the Downtown Baseball Walking Tour on Wednesday, June 24, The Baseball Project concert on Thursday, June 25, or the Historical Ballpark Sites Bus Tour on Sunday, June 28. Those tickets must be purchased separately.
All SABR 45 attendees will also receive a souvenir print edition of The National Pastime, our annual convention journal, focusing on baseball teams, players and events in the Chicago area. All SABR members, whether you attend the convention or not, will receive the expanded e-book edition of The National Pastime in their inboxes later this summer. Click here to register for SABR 45.
For more information on SABR 45, visit SABR.org/convention.
Students: Two weeks left to apply for SABR 45 Yoseloff Scholarship
With generous funding from The Anthony A. Yoseloff Foundation, Inc., SABR will award up to four scholarships to high school or college students to attend SABR 45 on June 24-28, 2015, in Chicago, Illinois. This scholarship will pay for registration, transportation and lodging (double occupancy) up to a total value of $1,250.
The objective of this scholarship fund is to encourage high school and college-level student engagement with baseball research and to engender an active interest in baseball and SABR. The Yoseloff scholarship is to assist young researchers who want to attend SABR’s annual convention and to introduce them to fellow SABR members. Through this fund, SABR hopes to inspire future baseball research, expose students to high-quality research and build the research capability of interested students.
- Download an application form: Click here to download a Yoseloff Scholarship form to attend SABR 45 in Chicago
All applications must be postmarked or e-mailed to Jeff Schatzki at jschatzki@sabr.org no later than FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2015.
For complete details and criteria, click here.
McMurray: Stolen bases in the Deadball Era, a relentless approach
Editor’s note: This article by John McMurray was originally published in the SABR Deadball Era Research Committee’s April 2015 newsletter.
In lore, the Deadball Era is often remembered for teams’ aggressive play and steadfast reliance on the stolen base. With home runs being rare, the employment of speed and daring on the bases shaped this period more than any other in baseball history. From 1901 through 1919, teams averaged more than 100 stolen bases in every season. Strikingly, from 1910 through 1914, American League teams exceeded 200 stolen bases each year on average, with National League teams trailing only slightly behind during that span. Such robust totals — there were more than 1,000 total steals in each league in seventeen of the nineteen seasons that made up the Deadball Era — would not be seen again in baseball until the early 1970s.
Yet it is also surprising how low individual stolen base totals were in each season during the Deadball Era. Though it is well known that no Deadball Era player ever stole as many as 100 bases in a season, it is less well-remembered that in six different seasons between 1901 and 1910, a mere 50 stolen bases would have been enough to lead the American League. In 1911, when the New York Giants led the National League with a still-record 347 stolen bases, the team leader was Josh Devore, with a relatively modest 61 steals.
As teams today rely more on the stolen base, it is worthwhile to recall that such trends have roots in the game from a century ago.
- Read the full article here: http://sabr.org/latest/mcmurray-stolen-bases-deadball-era-relentless-approach
— John McMurray
Listen to Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM
We invite you to listen to Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM, a new radio show hosted by SABR President Vince Gennaro, on Sunday nights on MLB Network Radio.
Baseball SABR Style focuses on examining and interpreting the statistical analysis that plays a critical role in baseball today. It will air weekly throughout the year on MLB Network Radio, available to subscribers nationwide on XM channel 89, Sirius channel 209, and on the SiriusXM Internet Radio App. (Recent shows are available afterward in the “on-demand” section of the SiriusXM app or website.)
For more information, click here.
Get a 20% discount off MLB.TV Premium Monthly subscriptions in 2015
The 2015 season has begun, and you now have the opportunity to take advantage of a special offer from MLB Advanced Media.
All SABR members can get a 20% discount off a MLB.TV Premium Monthly subscription. This discount is valid for each month of the 2015 season, so you can use it all year long:
With MLB.TV, you can watch every 2015 Regular Season out-of-market game LIVE or on-demand in HD Quality. Choose home or away broadcasts. MLB.TV is on your favorite devices, including iPhone, iPad, Android phones, Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation and more. Watch up to four games at once with Mosaic. DVR functionality lets you pause or rewind live games. PLUS, watch select 2015 Spring Training games LIVE online.
For any questions about your subscription, please contact MLB.TV Customer Service.
Registration now open for 2015 Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference
The 18th annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference will be held August 6-8, 2015, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference is open to all baseball, history and sports fans of all ages.
- Register today! Click here to register online at the SABR Store. Or click here to download a registration form (PDF); please mail your check or money order before July 31 to SABR Malloy Conference, 4455 E. Camelback Rd., Suite D-140, Phoenix, AZ 85018. Early registration is available until May 18, 2015.
Early-bird registration is $155 for an adult rate (includes all activities) or $110 for a student rate. Single-day registration for Friday or Saturday is $90. The rate for the Thursday education forum only is $15. Optional sessions are also available.
The 2015 Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference will celebrate the rich history of black baseball in Pittsburgh. We welcome proposals for oral and poster presentations from all research fields. Previous presenters have included college faculty, public school teachers, graduate students, and independent scholars. Presentations may focus on any topic related to the theme, “Baseball’s Best: the Grays and the Crawfords,” or other Negro Leagues issues. Some possibilities include: Josh Gibson, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Gus Greenlee, Cum Posey, Vic Harris, Cool Papa Bell, the Crawford Grill, and many others.
Visit SABR.org/malloy for information on the 2015 Call for Papers, Essay Contest, Art Contest, and Library Grant Program.
Check out the program and schedule for next week’s SABR Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Conference
Registration is now closed for the seventh annual Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference, which will be held April 17-18, 2015, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
Anyone wishing to be placed on a waiting list in the event of cancellations should contact Peter Mancuso at peterplus4@earthlink.net. The conference is open to all SABR members and up to two non-SABR family members or friends (ages 18 or over.)
- Program and schedule: Click here to download the 2015 conference program and schedule
The 2015 conference will be highlighted by a keynote address from baseball historian Jerrold Casway, along with a panel discussion, “Sporting News: Baseball in the 19th Century Press” with Jim Overmyer, Bob Tholkes, George Thompson, and John Thorn; a special presentation by James Brunson III (“Black Baseball: 1858-1900”); a Member Spotlight interview of Bob Bailey by Tom Simon; plus book signings, more research presentations, a welcome dinner, and more.
For more information, visit SABR.org/ivor-campbell19c or contact Peter Mancuso at peterplus4@earthlink.net.
- Related link: Click here to download the Nineteenth Century Committee’s Spring 2015 newsletter (PDF)
SABR Digital Library: Who’s on First: Replacement Players in World War II
Add a book about baseball’s true “replacement players” to your collection with the newest title from the SABR Digital Library:
Who’s on First: Replacement Players in World War II
Edited by Marc Z. Aaron and Bill Nowlin
Associate editors: James Forr and Len Levin
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-933599-91-5
ISBN (e-book): 978-1-933599-90-8
418 pages
During the four seasons the U.S. was at war in World War II (1942-1945), 533 players made their major-league debuts. There were 67 first-time major leaguers under the age of 21 (Joe Nuxhall the youngest at 15 in 1944). More than 60 percent of the players in the 1941 Opening Day lineups departed for the service. The 1944 Dodgers had only Dixie Walker and Mickey Owen as the two regulars from their 1941 pennant-winning team.
The owners brought in not only first-timers but also many oldsters. Hod Lisenbee pitched 80 innings for the Reds in 1945 at the age of 46. He had last pitched in the major leagues in 1936. War veteran and former POW Bert Shepard, with an artificial leg, pitched in one game for the 1945 Senators, and one-armed outfielder Pete Gray played for the St. Louis Browns.
The war years featured firsts and lasts. The St. Louis Browns won their first (and last) pennant in 1944 — a feat made more amazing by the fact that they had not finished in the first division since 1929. The 1944 team featured 13 players classified as 4-F. The Chicago Cubs appeared in the 1945 World Series but have not made it back since.
More than 50 members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) have contributed to this volume. We invite you to sit back and relax as you learn Who’s on First.
This book includes contributions from: Marc Z. Aaron, Thomas Ayers, Peter C. Bjarkman, Rich Bogovich, Bob Brady, Ashlie Christian, Alan Cohen, Rory Costello, Richard Cuicchi, Sidney Davis, Greg Erion, Charles Faber, Merrie A. Fidler, David Finoli, Duke Goldman, Rex Hamann, Rachel Hamelers, Tom Hawthorn, Leslie Heaphy, Lou Hernández, Michael Huber, Joanne Hulbert, Jay Hurd, David M. Jordan, Seamus Kearney, Marc Lancaster, Walter LeConte, Bob LeMoine, Barb Mantegani, Jeff Marlett, Mel Marmer, Bob Mayer, Mike McClary, Richard Moraski, Bill Nowlin, Jeff Obermeyer, Gregg Omoth, Armand Peterson, J.G. Preston, David W. Pugh, David Raglin, Chris Rainey, John Shannahan, James D. Smith III, Steve Smith, Lyle Spatz, Mark S. Sternman, Jim Sweetman, Cort Vitty, Charlie Weatherby, Bob Webster, Gregory H. Wolf, and Don Zminda.
SABR members, get this e-book for FREE!
- E-book: Click here to download the e-book version of Who’s on First: Replacement Players in World War II for FREE from the SABR Store. Available in PDF, Kindle/MOBI and EPUB formats.
- Paperback: Get a 50% discount on Who’s on First: Replacement Players in World War II paperback edition for $9.95 (plus shipping) from CreateSpace.
9 new biographies published by the SABR BioProject
Nine new biographies were posted as part of the SABR Baseball Biography Project, which brings us to a total of 3,147 published biographies. Here are the new bios:
- Otto Borchert, by Dennis Pajot
- Ed Carroll, by Bill Nowlin
- Powel Crosley Jr., by Charles F. Faber
- Frank Delahanty, by Bill Lamb
- Ben Geraghty, by Rory Costello
- Eddie Kasko, by Bill Nowlin
- Willie Mitchell, by Stephen V. Rice
- Bill Monbouquette, by Bill Nowlin
- Wally Moon, by Warren Corbett
All new biographies can be found here: http://sabr.org/bioproj/recent
You can find the SABR BioProject at SABR.org/BioProject.
Bios on more than just ballplayers: The ambitious goal of the SABR Baseball Biography Project is to publish a full-life biography of every major league player in history. But SABR members write about a lot more than just ballplayers. In addition, we have pages for Ballparks, Broadcasters, Executives, Managers, Scouts, Spouses, Umpires and a lot more on the BioProject website. You can browse all of these categories at http://sabr.org/bioproj/browse. So if you’ve ever thought, “Hey, that person (or ballpark) should get the full BioProject treatment” — write the story and we’ll publish it!
Get involved! If you’d like to help contribute to the SABR BioProject, visit our BioProject Resources page or read the FAQs section to get started. We’re also looking to expand the BioProject to include all “encyclopedic” articles on baseball-related subjects from past SABR publications or committee newsletters. If you come across an article you think should be included in the SABR “baseball repository” at the BioProject, send a copy or link to markarmour04@gmail.com or jpomrenke@sabr.org.
3 new stories published by the SABR Games Project
Three new game stories were posted this week as part of the SABR Games Project. Here are the new game stories:
- April 30, 1944: New York Giants score 26 runs; Weintraub has 11 RBIs, by Jack Zerby
- July 27, 1946: Rudy York hits two grand slams for Red Sox, by Mike Huber
- July 4, 1983: Dave Righetti tosses no-hitter on Fourth of July, by Bill Nowlin
The SABR Baseball Games Project was launched in January 2014 to research and write articles on major-league and Negro League regular, postseason, and All-Star Games. These game accounts will complement Retrosheet and Baseball-Reference box scores as well as BioProject essays on the players involved.
The articles are not intended to be mere play-by-play summaries, nor should they be first-person narratives. Rather the goal is to put each game in historical context — whether that history is of a particular player, team, season, or something even broader.
Visit the new Games Project website at SABR.org/gamesproject.
- Get involved: Writing for the Games Project is an easy way to get involved as a SABR member. Find out how by reading the Games Project FAQs section or checking out the Authors’ Guidelines.
- Questions: Contact Greg Erion for more information about the Games Project, James Forr to request an assignment, or Chip Greene to submit your draft article.
ICYMI: Highlights from last week’s This Week in SABR
We’ve heard your feedback: Some of you have said you look forward to “This Week in SABR” every Friday, but sometimes there are just too many compelling articles and announcements to read every week. We’re not complaining — hey, keep up the great work! — but we know the feeling. So in an effort to make the length of this newsletter more manageable to read, we’ll summarize some of the repeating/recurring announcements in a special “In Case You Missed It (ICYMI)” section of “This Week in SABR”.
Here are some major headlines from recent weeks that we don’t want you to miss:
- Click here for full coverage of the 2015 SABR Analytics Conference
- Nathaniel Grow, Chuck Kimberly win 2015 Larry Ritter Book Award
- Graham Womack: Catching up with sabermetrics pioneer Pete Palmer
- Meet Chuck McGill, the man who has discovered 500 minor-league no-hitters
- Andy McCue receives 2015 SABR Seymour Medal at NINE Conference banquet
- Sam Miller, Grant Brisbee, Jeff Sullivan win 2015 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards
- Arizona State, Stanford student teams win 2015 Diamond Dollars Case Competition
- SABR 45: Join us for a special concert with The Baseball Project
- Students: Apply for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend SABR 45 in Chicago
- All e-books in SABR Digital Library available for free to members
All previous editions of This Week in SABR can be found here: http://sabr.org/content/this-week-in-sabr-archives.
Welcome, new members!
We’d like to welcome all of our new SABR members who have joined this week. You can find all Members-Only resources at members.sabr.org and the New Member Handbook can be downloaded here.
Please give these new members a warm welcome and help them make the most of their membership by giving them the opportunity to get involved in their local chapter or a research committee.
You can find contact information for any SABR member in the online membership directory (SABR.org/directory).
Name | Hometown | Name | Hometown | ||
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Thad Abel | Grandville, MI | Roger Goldstein | Aurora, CO | ||
Larry Anderson | Albuquerque, NM | Rod McLeod | Orange, VA | ||
Charlotte Barber | Chapel Hill, NC | Robert Morelli | Derby, CT | ||
Robert Bruce | Colchester, CT | Jim Parks | Arlington, VA | ||
Jerry Dailey | Pickerington, OH | Diane Cameron Pascone | Guilderland, NY | ||
Orville Davis | Ruston, LA | Kent Putnam | Tallahassee, FL | ||
Tiffany Engel | Cincinnati, OH | Daniel Tomano | Berne, IN | ||
Zak Ford | Mather, CA | Eric Truchan | Keansburg, NJ | ||
Bill Fritsch | Pleasanton, CA |
Research Committee news
There were no new SABR research committee newsletters published this week.
Find all SABR research committee newsletters at SABR.org/research.
Regional Chapter news
Here are the new regional chapter updates published this week:
- Bill McCurdy’s photo essay on the Astrodome’s 50th anniversary celebration (Houston, TX; April 9)
Visit SABR.org/chapters for more information on SABR regional chapters.
SABR Events Calendar
Here is a list of upcoming SABR events:
- April 10-11: “Rare Baseball Films” with Dave Filipi (Columbus, OH)
- April 11: Rocky Mountain Chapter’s “Super Suite” Game of the Month (Denver, CO)
- April 11-12: Copper City Classic vintage baseball tourament (Bisbee, AZ)
- April 14: Halsey Hall Chapter research committee meeting (Edina, MN)
- April 15: Rocky Mountain Chapter 101st consecutive monthly luncheon (Denver, CO)
- April 16: Magnolia Chapter “Third Thursday” meeting (Atlanta, GA)
- April 17-18: Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference (Cooperstown, NY)
- April 18: Maine Chapter meeting (Orono, ME)
- April 18: Smoky Joe Wood Connecticut Chapter breakfast (Hamden, CT)
- April 20: Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter meeting (St. Louis, MO)
- April 20: Larry Dierker Chapter meeting (Houston, TX)
- April 21: Bob Davids Chapter Maryland Hot Stove Dinner (Silver Spring, MD)
- April 21: Jay Hurd: “Rube Foster and the Negro National League” (Medford, MA)
- April 21: NYU: “Life of the World Class Sports Journalist” panel (New York, NY)
- April 22: Magnolia Chapter “Fourth Wednesday” meeting (Tucker, GA)
- April 23: Bergino: “A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball” (New York, NY)
- April 23: John Thorn: “Stats versus Story” (Albany, NY)
- April 25: Halsey Hall Chapter spring meeting (Minneapolis, MN)
- April 25: Schott-Pelican Chapter spring meeting (New Orleans, LA)
- April 25: Emil Rothe Chapter meeting (Chicago, IL)
All SABR meetings and events are open to the public. Feel free to bring a baseball-loving friend … and make many new ones! Check out the SABR Events Calendar at SABR.org/events.
Around the Web
Here are some recent articles published by and about SABR members:
- Terry Mikesell: SABR member Dave Filipi to present rare baseball films this weekend in Ohio (Columbus Dispatch)
- Wendy Thurm: Major League Baseball reaches for its stars in the post-Jeter era (New Yorker)
- Dennis Pajot: Milwaukee’s Manning Vaughan and his long-forgotten baseball writing style (SABRMedia.org)
- Sam Fryberger: Q&A with Morris Eckhouse of Baseball Heritage Museum (Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage)
- M. Diane McCormick: SABR member Ted Knorr preserves memories of Negro Leaguer Rap Dixon (PennLive.com)
- Dan Lovallo: A 1983 interview with former Negro Leagues star Buck Leonard (Baseball on the Fly)
- Margaret J. Krauss: City of divided champions, Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays (WESA.fm)
- Graham Womack: Historic Locke Field in Texas to become apartment complex (Baseball Past and Present)
- Ryan Swanson: ‘They beat the hell out of us’: Jackie Robinson’s final game (The National Pastime Museum)
- Sean Lahman: Scout Dorothy Fox had an eye for baseball talent (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
- Ted Hesson: 11 women who would make kickass MLB announcers (Fusion.net)
- Rob Neyer: Has Don Newcombe been cheated out of the Hall of Fame by his ‘missing’ years? (FoxSports.com)
- Ben Lindbergh: Ready, set, Statcast: What the new data stream can teach us about MLB (Grantland)
- Niall Adler: Pac-12 Conference pride in the majors (Pac-12.com)
- Todd Radom: Cardinals’ birds-on-bat logo opened to mixed reviews in 1922 (ToddRadom.com)
- Bill Staples Jr.: America’s other ‘colored’ leagues: The legacy of Japanese-American baseball (Out of Bounds Magazine)
- Lane DeGregory: Don Zimmer’s wife documented every day of his 66 years in baseball (Tampa Bay Times)
- Ryan Whirty: Sioux City holds special place in black baseball history (Des Moines Register)
- Mark Herrmann: As baseball evolves, replacing past is price of progress (Newsday)
- Lawrence Hogan: Alex Pompez, a Latin American bird dog (The National Pastime Museum)
- Joe Guzzardi: Honus Wagner, would-be sheriff? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- Dayn Perry: A bar crawl through Cubs history (CBSSports.com)
- Gabriel Schechter: The most important pitching study ever done (Seamheads.com)
Read these articles and more at SABR.org/latest.
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Originally published: April 10, 2015. Last Updated: April 3, 2020.