This Week in SABR: April 12, 2024

April 12, 2024/in This Week in SABR /by Jacob Pomrenke

Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, April 12, 2024.
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SABR Board of Directors election begins next week
Early registration for SABR 52 in Minneapolis now open
1 week left to apply for Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference scholarship
Join us in Baltimore for Union Park marker dedication
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Henry Aaron’s 715th home run

Early registration is open for SABR 52 in Minneapolis

Join us in Minneapolis for SABR’s 52nd annual convention! Conference and hotel registration for SABR 52 on August 7-11, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, is now available at SABR.org/convention.

Click here for complete details on SABR 52 Early-Bird Registration and optional sessions, including a Minnesota Twins game, St. Paul Saints game, and Target Field ballpark tour.

SABR 52 will be distinct from its predecessors, as it will feature a Hall of Fame speaker lineup we know you’ll love — including Rod Carew, Tony Oliva, Bert Blyleven, and Jim Kaat — and will be the most accessible and social experience we’ve ever organized as we emphasize SABR’s ability to unite all of us in baseball fellowship. This year’s streamlined registration options will provide for a consistent and accessible experience for all attendees and the lowest registration price since 2018. We hope you’ll join us this summer in Minneapolis!

Visit SABR.org/convention to learn more.

1 week left to apply for Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference scholarship

Deadline extended! Students, apply before April 19, 2024, to be considered for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend SABR’s annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference on June 6-9, 2024, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. Click here to learn more or to download a Yoseloff Scholarship application.

All baseball fans are welcome to attend the 2024 Malloy Conference. Full and single-day registration is available for a discounted rate before May 24, along with a new virtual registration option. In-person attendees will also have an opportunity to view the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s new exhibit, The Souls of the Game: Voices of Black Baseball.

Schedule: Click here to view the 2024 Malloy Conference schedule.
Information Packet: Click here to download the conference information packet (PDF)
Yoseloff Scholarship: Students, learn more or apply for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend the 2024 Malloy Conference. Deadline: April 19, 2024.
Library Grants: Click here to download an application for the $500 Dick Clark Memorial Library Grants (PDF). Deadline: September 16, 2024.

Visit SABR.org/malloy to learn more or to register.

Join us in Baltimore for Union Park historical marker dedication

SABR’s Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter invites all baseball fans to join us at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, April 19 for a dedication ceremony of the Union Park historical marker placed by the chapter on the front façade of the St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center at 321 E. 25th St. in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter was the recipient of a SABR Local Grant in 2023 to help install the Union Park historical marker.

Speakers at the ceremony will include Michael Gibbons, Bernard McKenna, Burt Solomon, Janet Marie Smith, and Bill Stetka. A reception will follow at Peabody Heights Brewery, 401 E. 30th St., which is located on the former site of Oriole Park V.

Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.

Download the 2024 Board of Directors Election Guide

SABR members, please pay attention to the e-mail address that you have on file with SABR; you will receive a message from tellers@sabr.org on Tuesday, April 16 with a link to vote online in the 2024 SABR Board of Directors election. The poll will close at 11:59 p.m. Mountain Standard Time on Tuesday, April 30. 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.

Election Guide: Click here to download the 2024 SABR Election Guide (PDF)
Virtual Candidate Forum: Click here to watch a replay of the 2024 Virtual Candidate Forum (YouTube)

You will find three items on the 2024 election ballot: the election of the SABR Vice President, Secretary, and two (2) Directors positions. Click here to learn more.

Deadlines approaching for SABR Convention, Negro Leagues student scholarships

With generous funding from The Nanar and Anthony Yoseloff Foundation, Inc., SABR will award up to four scholarships to high school and college students who wish to attend these upcoming events:

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference: Click here to download an application or learn more about the Yoseloff Scholarship. This scholarship will pay for all registration fees and expenses associated with the Jerry Malloy Conference on June 6-9, 2024, in Cooperstown, New York. Deadline to apply: April 19.
SABR 52: Click here to download an application or learn more about the Yoseloff Scholarship. This scholarship will pay for all registration fees and expenses associated with the SABR 52 convention on August 7-11, 2024, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Deadline to apply: May 17.

In addition, SABR’s Negro Leagues Committee awards $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors in its annual Thomas R. Garrett Scholarship essay contest. Students must write a 1,200-word essay answering a question related to one of the Negro League figures who are the namesakes of the scholarships. Deadline to apply: April 15. Click here to download an application or learn more about the scholarships.

Visit SABR.org/scholarships to learn more about student scholarship opportunities.

Ron Gabriel Award Committee seeking nominations

The Ron Gabriel Award Committee is accepting nominations for the 2025 award. Please email your nominations to Gary Sarnoff.

The Ron Gabriel Award rewards the author(s) for best research, published or unpublished, on the subject of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Click here to learn more.

January 22 Board minutes posted

Minutes from the Board of Directors conference call on January 22, 2024, have now been posted on the SABR website.

Click here to view all past minutes of SABR Board meetings.

Find new updates to the SABR Research Collection below, including the Baseball Biography Project, Games Project, and Oral History Collection.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Henry Aaron’s 715th home run

It’s nearly impossible to overstate Henry Aaron’s greatness on and off the baseball field. His record of 755 home runs, shattering Babe Ruth’s iconic career mark while enduring relentless racist threats in the segregated Jim Crow South, transcended the game. Fifty years ago this week, on April 8, 1974, Aaron surpassed Ruth with his 715th career home run.

His quiet brilliance and proud spirit displayed over a 23-year Hall of Fame career with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves made him one of the most visible Black men in American society, an idol to millions of fans and generations of ballplayers.

In the SABR Research Collection, you can find memorable game recaps from Aaron’s career, in-depth analysis of his home run record, an interview with the scout who signed him, and dozens of rare photos and images from the Rucker Archive.

8 new stories published at SABR Games Project

April 19, 1949: Pirates’ Rip Sewell outduels Cubs’ Dutch Leonard in first Opening Day matchup of starters in their 40s, by John Fredland
May 6, 1962: Solly Hemus draws Mets’ first ejection in extra-inning win, by Kurt Blumenau
April 16, 1974: Steve Carlton’s pitching and hitting vanquish Bob Gibson, Cardinals, by Steve Ginader
June 9, 1974: Richie Zisk hits for cycle, Willie Stargell homers twice as Pirates slam Giants, by Mike Huber
April 15, 1975: Ryan Express rolls past Twins in rowdy Minnesota opener, by Mike Worley
April 18, 2007: Wakefield, home runs put Red Sox on top of AL East, by Bill Nowlin
June 25, 2010: Edwin Jackson throws 149-pitch no-hitter for Diamondbacks, by Thomas J. Brown Jr.
May 26, 2023: Luis García Jr. goes 6-for-6 with two doubles in one inning as Nationals beat Royals, by Laura H. Peebles

In addition, these stories from SABR’s Ebbets Field: Great, Historic, and Memorable Games in Brooklyn’s Lost Ballpark (2023), edited by Gregory H. Wolf, were posted online this week:

June 21, 1922: Carson Bigbee’s big day busted by boots, by Ken Carrano
July 2, 1925: A Rube Awakening: Brooklyn bats bombard Boston’s Marquard, by Mark S. Sternman
July 20, 1925: Dodgers’ Dazzy Vance ties NL record with 17 strikeouts, by Gregory H. Wolf
September 13, 1925: Dazzy Vance tosses first no-hitter in Ebbets Field history, by Gregory H. Wolf
July 12, 1929: A new ‘dead’ ball? Brooklyn wins after wild 9th inning, by Doug Feldmann
September 6, 1930: Brooklyn scores season-high 22 runs to ignite win streak, by Chris Rainey
May 18, 1931: Babe Herman becomes first Brooklyn player to hit for the cycle at Ebbets Field, by Mike Huber
May 14, 1933: Hack Wilson’s pinch-hit, walk-off grand slam sends Dodgers home victorious, by Doug Feldmann
September 21, 1934: Daffy Dean dazzles with no-hitter against Brooklyn, by Gregory H. Wolf
May 18, 1935: Negro League Brooklyn Eagles play inaugural home opener at Ebbets Field, by Gregory H. Wolf
August 27, 1937: Fred Frankhouse tosses rain-shortened no-hitter, by Gregory H. Wolf

Visit SABR.org/gamesproject to learn more about the SABR Games Project or to get involved.

Sox Bid Curse Farewell: The 2004 Boston Red Sox
Edited by Bill Nowlin

Visit SABR.org/ebooks to download the free e-book edition or save 50% off the paperback edition of all Digital Library books.

Here are some SABR headlines from recent weeks that we don’t want you to miss:

Please give a warm welcome to all new SABR members who joined this week! View more Members-Only resources at members.sabr.org or click here to download the Membership Handbook. Find contact information for any SABR member in the online Membership Directory.

NAME	HOMETOWN	NAME	HOMETOWN
Susan Allen	Charleston, SC	Ryan Manley	Fort Worth, TX
Geordie French	Monkton, MD	Phil Mann	New York, NY
Barry Gray	Erie, PA	Nicholas Miller	Deerfield Beach, FL
William Gustafson	San Jose, CA	Rishik Narla	Cumming, GA
Christopher Heaton	West Roxbury, MA	Jim Reid	Louisville, KY
Jesus Hills	Seoul, KOR	Shane Trimble	Spencer, IN
Sean Kuehn	Tulsa, OK	Owen Wassel	Pittsburgh, PA
Angelo Lucrezia	Mahwah, NJ

Events Calendar: Find details of all upcoming SABR events.
Video Replays: This week, we heard from Elena Dugan (“Integrated Baseball at Phillips Academy Andover”). Click here to view video replays of virtual SABR events.

Upcoming Virtual Meetings

April 15: Bob Broeg St. Louis (MO) Chapter meeting (6:00 p.m. CDT)
April 15: Halsey Hall (MN) Chapter research committee meeting (7:00 p.m. CDT)
April 16: Bud Metheny (VA) Chapter meeting with Zak Ford (8:00 p.m. EDT)
April 16: New SABR Member Experience Meeting (8:00 p.m. EDT)
April 18: Kevin Baker author event (6:00 p.m. EDT)
April 18: Larry Doby (SC) Chapter meeting with Edwin C. Epps (7:00 p.m. EDT)
April 18: Pee Wee Reese (KY) Chapter meeting with Benjamin Hill (7:00 p.m. EDT)
April 18: Bay Area/Sacramento Chapter joint meeting with Mitchell Nathanson and Patrick Holcomb (7:00 p.m. PDT)
April 20: Hank Gowdy Columbus (OH) Chapter book club meeting with Jacob Kornhauser (9:30 a.m. EDT)

Upcoming In-Person Meetings

April 13: Dayton Chapter meeting (Dayton, OH)
April 13: Halsey Hall Chapter book club meeting (Roseville, MN)
April 13-14: Dubuque Baseball Classic (Dubuque, IA)
April 16: Bob Davids Chapter Hot Stove Dinner (Silver Spring, MD)
April 17: Rocky Mountain Chapter monthly luncheon (Denver, CO)
April 17: Halsey Hall Chapter meeting (Roseville, MN)
April 18: Field of Dreams Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Des Moines, IA)
April 18: Eric Vickrey author event (Seattle, WA)
April 19-20: 2024 Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Conference (Cooperstown, NY)
April 20: Babe ‘n’ Bob Chapter Breakfast (Edgewater, MD)

To add your SABR event to our calendar listings, please contact Jacob Pomrenke.

Minor Leagues: Spring 2024 newsletter

Sign up for SABR research committee announcements at SABR.org/research/committees.

Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter: Spring 2024 newsletter (Baltimore, MD)

Sign up for SABR chapter announcements at SABR.org/chapters.

Click here to learn more about SABR chartered communities.

Here are some recent articles published by and about SABR members:

David Dennis Jr.: Fifty years after Hank Aaron 715th home run, his legacy remains at Gresham Park (Andscape)
Matt Monagan: One magic town. 60 pro players. And they’re all related to Ronald Acuña Jr. (MLB.com)
Emily Nemens: Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal (LitHub.com)
Ginny Searle: Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani, and the Moral Hazard of Speculation (Baseball Prospectus)
Michael Baumann: MLB Avoids Worst-Case Gambling Scenario. But It’s Not Time to Relax. (FanGraphs)
Sarah Langs: The greatest sibling combos in MLB history (MLB.com)
Patrick Dubuque: How Do We Make Relievers Worse? (Baseball Prospectus)
Jay Jaffe: More UCL Tears Prompt Pointed Exchange, Few Answers to Baseball’s Thorny Mess (FanGraphs)
Tyler Kepner: Juan Soto’s Bronx debut followed an earthquake but provided no aftershocks (The Athletic)
Curt Smith: New book hails the world of Hispanic broadcasting (Sports Broadcast Journal)
Mark Simon: Scouting The Home Plate Umpires And Their Tendencies (ACTA Sports)
Ben Clemens: The Stolen Base Explosion Hasn’t Continued (FanGraphs)
Andrew Golden: What Nationals pitchers visually focus on during each pitch (Washington Post)
Ginny Searle: Metering Mike Trout (and His Contemporaries) (Baseball Prospectus)
Stephen J. Nesbitt: Top prospect Jackson Holliday cherishes Orioles debut: ‘All I could have asked for’ (The Athletic)
Derrick Goold: Cardinals aim to strike an ‘aggressive’ mindset for retooled bullpen to ‘attack’ (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Alex Speier: It appeared the Red Sox had addressed their defensive problems, but they’ve taken a turn for the worse (Boston Globe)
David Laurila: Adam Cimber Dropped Down For Under-the-Radar Success (FanGraphs)
Barrett Snyder: The Unseen Heroism of Sarah Langs: Shaping Baseball’s Narrative Beyond the Playing Field (West Chester Quad)
Michael Clair: Kerry Carpenter is living his dream big league life (MLB.com)
Dan Hayes/Eno Sarris: How Twins starter Joe Ryan’s refined pitch mix could help him break through in 2024 (The Athletic)
Ryan Divish: While it’s still very early, the Mariners’ strikeout trends are troubling (Seattle Times)
Jayson Stark: Presenting Baseball’s All-Eclipse Team, from Sonny Gray to Moonlight Graham (The Athletic)
Justin McGuire: McCormick Field at 100: 10 memorable moments (Mountain Xpress)
Amanda Lane Cumming: I Love a Panic! Or, the Mariners and the Month of April (NW Baseball History)
Gary Cieradkowski: Phil Weintraub: It certainly is a strange game (Infinite Baseball Card Set)
Vince Guerrieri: Judy Garland Signs National Anthem Before 1939 Home Opener (Cleveland Magazine)
Dave Kaplan: The Bill Yancey Experience (Ball Nine)
Jason Schwartz: Topps Knew Henry Aaron Would Be Great (Hobby News Daily)
Rich Klein: The Strange Card Career of Pancho Herrera (Hobby News Daily)
Derek Bain: Hardball Retro Replays – 1985-1989 “Originals” (SABR Games and Simulations)

Please note: Some articles may require a separate subscription to view online. SABR does not endorse, and is not responsible or liable for, any content that appears on a third-party website.

This Week in SABR is compiled by Jacob Pomrenke. If you would like us to include an upcoming event, article, or any other information in “This Week in SABR,” e-mail jpomrenke@sabr.org. To find past editions of TWIS, click here.

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Originally published: April 12, 2024. Last Updated: April 12, 2024.

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