This Week in SABR: August 21, 2026
Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, August 21, 2026.
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Marlene Vogelsang honored as 2026 SABR Founders’ Day Award recipient
SABR All-Time Eras Team revealed for Integration Era
More highlights, photos from SABR 54 in Cleveland
Join us on September 24 for a Scholar Session with MLB’s Tyrone Brooks
Call for papers: Turnstyle: The SABR Journal of Baseball Arts
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Marlene Vogelsang honored as 2026 SABR Founders’ Day Award recipient
Marlene Vogelsang of San Leandro, California, was recognized this week as the recipient of the 2026 SABR Founders’ Day Award, which recognizes a member who has contributed significant or enduring service as a leader of a regional chapter or research committee.
Vogelsang, a SABR member since 2004, took over as president of the Bay Area-based Lefty O’Doul Chapter in 2007, and has served in a leadership role for the past two decades.
“Baseball gives us many gifts and one of those gifts to me has certainly been SABR,” Vogelsang said. “It’s been a pleasure to give back to the organization and to the people who have given so much to me. SABR works because of all of you and you give to it, and I’m happy to be a part of that work. … SABR is truly for everyone. I’m not a historian or a researcher or an author or an analyst. I’m a baseball fan, and I’ve been so happy to find a home with all of you here in SABR.”
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
SABR All-Time Eras Team announced for Integration Era (1947–1972)
Throughout the 2026 season, SABR members will have a chance to vote on SABR’s All-Time Eras Teams as we celebrate the 150 years of baseball and American history since the founding of the National League in 1876. On Tuesday, August 18, SABR revealed the Integration Era team in a special Zoom webinar, covering players and teams from 1947 to 1972. More than 1,000 SABR members cast a vote on these ballots. The top vote recipients at each position were selected for the first team. Click on a link below to view the players, managers, and executives selected, along with their SABR biographies and statistics from Baseball-Reference.com:
Before the team was unveiled, acclaimed author Howard Bryant delivered a presentation on baseball during the Integration Era. Click here to watch a video recording of Bryant’s presentation and the team reveal.
Visit SABR.org/all-time-eras-teams to learn more about the project.
- Vote now! Voting for the Free Agency Era (1973–2000) teams is now open at SABR.org. All SABR members are eligible to vote in the online ballot. The final team will be revealed in a Zoom webinar on Wednesday, September 16, with a presentation by Daniel A. Gilbert of the University of Illinois. Click here to pre-register for the Zoom meeting.
Check out more highlights, photos from SABR 54 in Cleveland
Couldn’t make it to Cleveland for SABR 54? Check out stories, photos, and multimedia clips from the SABR 54 convention in Cleveland below.
- Listen to highlights from MLB Players Association 60th Anniversary Panel with Mark Armour, Ezra Frankel, Michael Haupert, Dan Levitt (audio)
- Listen to highlights from Cleveland Guardians Analytics Panel with Sky Andrecheck, Kyle Burris, Keith Woolner (audio)
- Listen to highlights from all 32 research presentations at SABR 54 (audio)
- Listen to highlights from committee meeting speakers at SABR 54, including Bruce Allardice, Dan Cichalski, Gary Cieradkowski, Jorge Colón Delgado, Steve Etzel, Jim Leeke, Phil Rosenzweig, and more (audio)
For more coverage of SABR 54, visit SABR.org/convention.
Join us on September 24 for a special SABR Scholar Session with MLB’s Tyrone Brooks
All student and young professional members of SABR are invited to join us for our next SABR Scholar Session, held virtually on Zoom at 7:00 PM Eastern on Thursday, September 24.
Join host Tyrone Brooks, Senior Director, Front Office and Field Staff Diversity Pipeline Program at Major League Baseball, for our free virtual series created exclusively for SABR student and young professional members.
During this session, Tyrone will discuss baseball’s offseason hiring timeline and ways you can set yourself apart from other applicants. We’ll also spend some time linking you with fellow student and young professional members in a networking session designed to build your connections throughout the industry.
- To learn more or to pre-register for the SABR Scholar Session on Zoom, please contact Jessica Smyth.
Get your SABR merch at our new online shop
SABR is excited to announce the launch of the new SABR Shop, an online store featuring SABR-branded apparel, home goods, prints, and more for baseball fans.
Among the featured items are exclusive prints showcasing cover art from the Baseball Research Journal, along with a growing collection of SABR merchandise celebrating the organization’s worldwide community. Baseball Research Journal posters feature every edition including the artwork of acclaimed artist and SABR member Gary Cieradkowski, with iconic depictions of Babe Ruth and Satchel Paige amongst other legends of the game. Apparel options include hats, shirts, sweatshirts, and pullovers in men’s, women’s, and unisex selections. New merchandise and designs will continue to be added in the coming months, offering fresh options for the SABR fan in your life.
Visit the SABR Shop today at sabr.shop.
Call for papers: 2027 SABR Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference
All SABR members are invited and encouraged to submit a Research Presentation Proposal Abstract on any topic of 19th-century baseball for the 2027 Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. The 18th annual Ivor-Campbell Conference is scheduled for April 16-17, 2027.
The deadline for proposal Abstracts is October 31, 2026. Your abstract must be between 250-500 words for a 20- to 25-minute presentation focused primarily on events taking place prior to 1901. Please include name, title, and contact information and send your proposal as a Microsoft Word or PDF attachment to Peter Mancuso.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Register now for 2026 SABR Northern New Jersey 19th Century Baseball Interdisciplinary Symposium
SABR’s Nineteenth Century Research Committee will host the Northern New Jersey 19th Century Interdisciplinary Symposium as a special virtual event on Saturday, November 14, 2026. The focus of this symposium will be on the rich early baseball and related history of the region, which extends from the New York state border south through Monmouth and Mercer counties.
- Registration for all SABR members is now open; click here to sign up. The cost is $15 per person. The one-day Zoom event will run from approximately 12:00 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time on November 14.
The symposium will be highlighted by a keynote address from Jonathan Mercantini, Associate Provost for Special Projects and Professor of History at Kean University. He is an appointed member of the New Jersey Historical Commission and a Trustee of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. The welcome address will be given by John Thorn, the Official Historian of Major League Baseball and the co-founder of SABR’s Nineteenth Century Committee.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Call for papers: Turnstyle: The SABR Journal of Baseball Arts
With the recent release of Volume 5 of Turnstyle: The SABR Journal of the Baseball Arts, SABR’s Baseball and the Arts Committee now turns its sights to submissions for Volume 6.
All SABR members are encouraged to send along your submission, or your questions, to editors Joanne Hulbert or Jay Hurd before September 15, 2026. We are looking for poetry, memoir, artwork, humor, short fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, and parody.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Writing opportunity: 2002 Anaheim Angels book
SABR is planning to publish a new book in 2027 for the 25th anniversary of the 2002 Anaheim Angels team that won the franchise’s first World Series championship. We are seeking authors to write a biography of Clay Bellinger, Ramón Ortiz, and Troy Percival, and a handful of memorable game recaps. If you are interested in contributing, please contact Bill Nowlin or Paul Hensler.
Find new updates to the SABR Research Collection below, including the Baseball Biography Project, Games Project, and Oral History Collection.
2 new stories published at SABR BioProject
- Rube Parnham, by Edward Damer
- Johnny Ray, by Madison McEntire
Visit SABR.org/bioproject to learn more about the SABR Biography Project or to get involved.
3 new stories published at SABR Games Project
- June 10, 1956: New Hampshire nips Washington State for only College World Series win, by Kurt Blumenau
- August 22, 1959: A time Ted Williams tipped his cap after hitting a home run, by Bill Nowlin
- July 4, 1976: Basepath blunder costs Phillies’ Tim McCarver a Bicentennial grand slam, by John Fredland
Visit SABR.org/gamesproject to learn more about the SABR Games Project or to get involved.
The Negro Leagues’ 1931 Homestead Grays: The Color of Greatness
Edited by Thomas Kern and Bill Nowlin
Visit SABR.org 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:
- Save the date! SABR 55 will be in Birmingham in 2027
- SABR Defensive Index rankings released through MLB games of August 9
- SABR Analytics Certification courses now available in Spanish
- Photos, highlights from Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference in Memphis
- 2026 executives, college baseball staffs added to SABR MLB Team Employee Database
- Overlooked 19th Century Base Ball Legends project concludes with final selections
- Save the date: Join us for SABR Analytics Conference on March 12–14, 2027
- Read articles from the Spring 2026 Baseball Research Journal
- New Research Resources portal and member login launched
- Learn more about recipients of SABR Research Grants in 2026
- Fourth course in SABR Analytics Certification program is now available
- Learn more about new SABR Institutional Memberships
- Negro Leagues statistics added to SABR Lahman Baseball Database
- View a collection of nearly 100,000 player surveys in the Weiss Baseball Questionnaires collection
- Hundreds of ProQuest US newspapers added to SABR Research Resources
- Find complete collection of SABR-Rucker Archive baseball images online
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rex Arrasmith | Sedona, AZ | Bob Joyce | Humble, TX | ||
| John Aston | Downey, CA | Max Martinez-Almenas | Fort Lee, NJ | ||
| Christopher Barnett | Mountain Brook, AL | James McAdams | Bloomingdale, IL | ||
| Marianne Biskup | Stockton, CA | Patrick McConnell | Northglenn, CO | ||
| Jared Bond | Blacksburg, VA | Jason Pemberton | Calgary, AB | ||
| Rod Conerly | Spring, TX | Colton Porter | Cedarburg, WI | ||
| Nathan Cryder | Lexington, KY | Bobby Schmeltz | Washington, DC | ||
| Mark Fox | Cheswick, PA | Anthony Selvaggio | Webster, NY | ||
| Thomas Gibbons | Tempe, AZ | Sebastian Slade | Falmouth, ENG | ||
| Troy Hamilton | Dublin, OH | Donna Syed | Kansas City, MO | ||
| Mike Harris | Wellesley, MA | Chris Thompson | Shawnee, KS | ||
| David Hart | San Diego, CA | Michael Tuller | Plainview, NY | ||
| Justin Harvey | The Colony, TX | Omar Ventura | Chandler, AZ | ||
| Noel Hermele | Denver, CO | Jennifer Weier | Magnolia, TX | ||
| kevin ivy | Denham Springs, LA | Alex Yoon | Suseong-gu, KOR | ||
| Greg Johanson | Odenton, MD | Hyeonggeun Yun | Yongin-si, KOR |
- Events Calendar: Find details of all upcoming SABR events.
- Video Replays: This week, we heard from Howard Bryant (“Baseball in the Integration Era”); Justin Mckinney (The Shortstop Was a Crook); and David Herman (Almost Yankees). Click here to view video replays of virtual SABR events.
Upcoming Virtual Meetings
- August 22: Rogers Hornsby (TX) Chapter meeting with Tim Christ (1:00 PM CDT)
- August 22: LA Public Library: International Baseball Panel with Rob Fitts, Michael Clair, Aaron Fischman, and Yuriko Gamo Romer (2:00 PM PDT)
- August 24: Bob Davids (DC) Chapter meeting with Hannah Dean (7:00 PM EDT)
- August 24: Clyde Sukeforth (NH/ME) Chapter meeting with Addy Baird (7:30 PM EDT)
- August 25: Mathewson-Plank (Central PA) Chapter meeting with Jim Levering (7:00 PM EDT)
- August 27: Magnolia (GA) Chapter meeting with Tim Christ (7:30 PM EDT)
- August 30: Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter meeting with Bob Cullen (7:00 PM EDT)
Upcoming In-Person Meetings
- August 22: Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter: Orioles ballgame/meet-up (Baltimore, MD)
- August 24: Long Island Ralph Kiner Chapter movie night (Dix Hills, NY)
- August 29: Boston Chapter: WooSox ballgame/meet-up (Worcester, MA)
- August 29: Lefty O’Doul Chapter: Oakland Ballers ballgame/meet-up (Oakland, CA)
- August 30: Clyde Sukeforth Chapter: New Hampshire Fisher Cats ballgame/meet-up (Manchester, NH)
- August 30: Central Illinois Chapter: WPBL ballgame/meet-up (Springfield, IL)
To add your SABR event to our calendar listings, please contact Jacob Pomrenke.
- Origins: August 2026 newsletter
Sign up for SABR research committee announcements at SABR.org/research/committees.
- Schott-Pelican Louisiana Chapter: Summer 2026 newsletter (New Orleans, LA)
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:
- Jonah Gardner: Women’s baseball stats added to Baseball Reference (Sports-Reference.com)
- Tyler Kepner: Club 162: Yankees’ Gerrit Cole is rolling to a record he didn’t even know about (The Athletic)
- Jesse Dougherty: He Spent Five Days With the Nats But Never Played. Is He a Big Leaguer? (NOTUS.org)
- Jay Jaffe: Tommy John (1943-2026): Crafty Lefty and First Recipient of a Game-Changing Surgery (FanGraphs)
- Jayson Stark: MLB players and teams poised to make history, from Yordan Alvarez to the Brewers (The Athletic)
- Mark Simon: Yankees Shortstops and the Best Defenses by Committee (Sports Info Solutions)
- Alex Speier: Caleb Durbin’s early struggles have been replaced by the rise of ‘The Durbinator’ (Boston Globe)
- Eno Sarris: Paul Skenes is struggling. Is there a flaw in his arsenal that needs fixing? (The Athletic)
- Ginny Searle: Which Playoff Contenders Need an SoS? (Baseball Prospectus)
- Sarah Langs: 7 stats and facts to know from Joshua Báez’s debut for the ages (MLB.com)
- Ben Lindbergh: Brand-New Batters Are Making the Majors Look Easy (The Ringer)
- Derrick Goold: Cooperstown calls for Joshua Baez’s 3-homer debut cleats, which he borrowed from a teammate (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- Peter Abraham: Adley Rutschman trade similar to Red Sox’ Elston Howard deal in 1967 (Boston Globe)
- Patrick Dubuque: The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule: A Dissent (Baseball Prospectus)
- Ben Clemens: Mathemadage: Hard In, Soft Away (FanGraphs)
- Daniel R. Epstein: The Brewers Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Sliders (Baseball Prospectus)
- Jonah Weiss Honors Larry Doby’s New Jersey Roots at SABR 54 (EIN Presswire)
- Michael Clair: After years of being told ‘women can’t play baseball,’ WPBL star Denae Benites is smashing dingers and having fun (MLB.com)
- Bradley Woodrum: A Home Run Battle Brewing in Springfield (Baseball Prospectus)
- Jen Ramos Eisen/Frankie de la Cretaz: New Women’s Pro Baseball League Offers Hope—And Frustrations (Defector)
- Scott Chiusano: ‘Beg your pardon, Miss Umpire’: Over a century ago, Amanda Clement made history calling games (MLB.com)
- Dan Szymborski: Which Teams Have Suffered the Most Due to Injuries? (FanGraphs)
- Ted Cotti: Kansas City becomes home to the nation’s first College Baseball Hall of Fame (Kansas City Magazine)
- Frederic J. Frommer: ‘I felt like Babe Ruth’: baseball’s 3ft 7in pinch-hitter, 75 years on (The Guardian)
- Benjamin Hill: ‘Peanut Guy’ Erik Mertens has visited every Minor League and MLB ballpark (MiLB.com)
- David Laurila: Arsenal Included, ChiSox Southpaw Noah Schultz Remains a Work In Progress (FanGraphs)
- Ray Routhier: Celebrating the Mainer who helped bring baseball to Japan (Portland Press Herald)
- Jason Coskrey: ‘Ghost’ win prospects add intrigue to NPB clubs’ jockey for playoff positions (Japan Times)
- Baek In-chun, the only .400 hitter in Korean baseball history, dies at 83 (JoongAng Daily)
- Sam Gazdziak: Obituary: Butch Huskey (1971-2026) (RIP Baseball)
- Bill Staples Jr.: Chet Brewer and the 1935 Bismarck Churchills (International Pastime)
- Mark Kolier: Harlond Clift – a Great Third Baseman Who Nearly Disappeared (Almost Cooperstown)
- Jeff Cohen/Len Aberman: Baseball and BBQ interview with Roy Carlson and George Hovsepian (Baseball and BBQ)
- Jason Schwartz: Topps Traded Leaderboard (SABR Baseball Cards)
- Coop Daley/Rob Fitts: End of an Era: The 2006 Aeon All-Star Series (SABR Asian Baseball)
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: August 21, 2026. Last Updated: August 21, 2026.