This Week in SABR: July 10, 2020
Welcome to “This Week in SABR!” Click here to view this week’s newsletter on the web. Here’s what we’ve been up to as of July 10, 2020:
Join us this weekend for more SABR Virtual panels and presentations
We hope you’re excited for the start of SABR Virtual! Visit SABR.org/virtual-meetings to register now for our free online Zoom events through July 26, featuring online presentations, chats, and panel discussions with authors, scholars, and figures from around the game.
The SABR Virtual events kicked off Thursday with presentations by Mark Kanter, John Burbridge, and Paul Scimonelli. Click here to watch the replay of Day 1 on YouTube.
This weekend, we’ll also have a one-on-one interview with MLB’s Cory Schwartz, hosted by Dan Evans; and a panel discussion on “Half a Century in Half an Hour: SABR’s 50 at 50 Project” with Leslie Heaphy, John Thorn, Jason Schwartz; along with presentations by Tom Thress, David W. Smith, Mark Pankin, Lindsay J. Bell, Andy McCue, Jerry Amernic, Mike Haupert, and Herm Krabbenhoft.
Visit SABR.org/virtual-meetings to find the full schedule and register for each session.
Enter the SABR Virtual Raffle to win baseball memorabilia prizes
Enter the SABR Virtual Raffle for a chance to win a lineup card autographed by Tony Gwynn and other baseball memorabilia prizes!
Winners will be announced during a SABR Virtual session on July 26. Each raffle ticket entitles the participant to a chance to win one individual memorabilia item, which will be drawn at random.
The prizes include: Tony Gwynn Autographed Lineup Card; Bill James Bobblehead and SABR Thumb Drive; Hank Aaron Hartland Vintage Figurine; Lou Gehrig Montage First Edition Print; Bud Selig Autographed Baseball; Old Yankee Stadium Framed Print; 1957 MIlwaukee Braves World Series Mounted Team Photo. Click here to learn more.
- Click here to purchase a raffle ticket for $5 at the SABR Store
(To purchase a raffle ticket, you must be a SABR member. Visit SABR.org/join to sign up!)
The raffle is open to all SABR members. You do not have to be registered for a SABR Virtual session in order to win. Winners will be notified by e-mail after the random drawing on July 26, 2020, and prizes will be shipped via US Mail following the conference.
Submit questions for Annual Business Meeting on Saturday, July 11
As part of the SABR Virtual online conference, SABR will hold its Annual Business Meeting from 4:00-5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday, July 11, 2020.
In addition to updates from SABR CEO Scott Bush, Board President Mark Armour, and Treasurer F.X. Flinn, the Annual Business Meeting will also include the announcement of the 2020 Bob Davids Award, SABR’s highest honor.
SABR’s Board of Directors welcomes any questions from members during the Annual Business Meeting; please fill out our online form to submit a question in advance.
Each SABR Virtual session is limited to the first 100 SABR members who sign up. The Annual Business Meeting will also be livestreamed on SABR’s Facebook page for any SABR members to watch online.
For more information, visit SABR.org/virtual-meetings.
Take a 40% discount on University of Nebraska Press baseball books during SABR Virtual
During SABR Virtual, the University of Nebraska Press is offering its usual convention discount of 40% off and free shipping through August 15, 2020, including SABR’s upcoming 50th anniversary anthology.
To save 40%, enter the code 6ASAB2 in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click “Add Promotion Code.” Offer is good for US and Canadian shipments only.
Baseball has seen many changes in the last 50 years, and SABR’s upcoming 50th anniversary provides an opportunity to highlight the most memorable players, teams, and events from the game’s glorious past. SABR 50 at 50: The Society for American Baseball Research’s Fifty Most Essential Contributions to the Game, edited by Bill Nowlin and now available for pre-order from the University of Nebraska Press, celebrates and highlights SABR’s wide-ranging contributions to baseball history. Click here to learn more about this book.
Join us for more Stay Home With SABR virtual events
SABR chapters and committees are encouraged to set up virtual meetings to stay engaged with our members throughout the world at SABR.org, as part of our Stay Home With SABR initiative to assist in limiting the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Here are some more upcoming virtual events you can attend online:
- July 10: SABR Virtual: Day 2 with Tom Thress, David W. Smith, Mark Pankin, and a One-on-One interview with Cory Schwartz, hosted by Dan Evans (7:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 11: Talkin’ Baseball: Maxwell Kates (9:00 a.m. EDT)
- July 11: Jack Graney-Hank Gowdy (Ohio) joint chapter meeting (9:30 a.m. EDT)
- July 11: SABR Virtual: Day 3 with Lindsay J. Bell, Andy McCue, the Annual Business Meeting, and presentation of 2020 SABR Bob Davids Award (3:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 12: SABR Virtual: Day 4 with Jerry Amernic, Michael Haupert, Herm Krabbenhoft, and “Half a Century in Half an Hour: SABR’s 50 at 50 Project” with Leslie Heaphy, John Thorn, and Jason Schwartz (3:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 12: Robinson-Kell Chapter meeting with Joe Gallagher (7:00 p.m. CDT)
- July 13: SABR Board of Directors conference call (8:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 14: Dusty Baker-Sacramento and Lefty O’Doul Chapter joint meeting with author Chris Epting (7:00 p.m. PDT)
- July 15: Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter meeting with author Bill Nowlin (12:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 15: Baseball Cards Committee award ceremony with Mike Aronstein (9:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 16: Elysian Fields Chapter meeting with authors Joshua Prager and Gregory H. Wolf (1:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 16: SABR Virtual: Day 5 with Mark Armour, Perry Barber, Roberta J. Newman, and Civil Rights and Baseball: Perception and Reality with Dr. Louis Moore and Emily Hawks (7:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 17: SABR Virtual: Day 6 with Todd Peterson, Bernard McKenna, Brian Engelhardt, and Greg Gajus (7:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 18: Rogers Hornsby Chapter meeting (11:00 a.m. CDT)
- July 18: SABR Virtual: Day 7 with Mitchell Nathanson, Karen DeLuca Stephens, David Paulson, and Baseball Then and Now: Arnold Hano’s 94 Years in the Bleachers, with Arnold Hano, Jon Leonoudakis, and Jean Ardell (3:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 19: SABR Virtual: Day 8 with Curt Smith, Rob Fitts, Alan Cohen, and Keith Spalding Robbins (3:00 p.m. EDT)
Find more upcoming virtual meetings and watch replays of past events on our SABR Virtual Calendar page.
Read all articles from the Spring 2020 Baseball Research Journal online
Good news! The Spring 2020 edition of the Baseball Research Journal is now available to read online:
Click here to read the Spring 2020 Baseball Research Journal at SABR.org
Those of you who receive the print edition should find your BRJ arriving in the next few weeks. For digital subscribers, the e-book edition was delivered to your inboxes on June 24.
To read more articles from the BRJ archives, our flagship publication for nearly the past half-century, click here.
To learn more about contributing to a future SABR publication, click here.
We hope you enjoy reading the Spring 2020 Baseball Research Journal!
SABR Digital Library: Harvey’s Wallbangers: The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers
Add a pennant-winning baseball book to your collection from the SABR Digital Library:
Harvey’s Wallbangers: The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers
Edited by Gregory H. Wolf
Associate Editors: Len Levin, Bill Nowlin, and Carl Riechers
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-970159-27-1, $34.95
ISBN (e-book): 978-1-970159-26-4, $9.99
8.5” x 11”, 407 pages
Click here to read the full description of this book at SABR.org.
SABR members, get this e-book for FREE!
- E-book: Click here to download the e-book version of Harvey’s Wallbangers for FREE from the SABR Store. Available in PDF, Kindle/MOBI and EPUB formats.
- Paperback: Get a 50% discount on the Harvey’s Wallbangers paperback edition from the SABR Store ($17.95 includes shipping/tax; delivery via Kindle Direct Publishing can take up to 4-6 weeks.)
SABR members can download all Digital Library e-books for free or get 50% off the paperback editions. Find past titles at SABR.org/ebooks.
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Friends of SABR: June 2020
Here is a list of SABR supporters for the month of June 2020. Want to become a Friend of SABR? Click here to make a recurring monthly contribution or click here to learn more about our Giving Circles to make a one-time contribution.
| Name | NAME | |
|---|---|---|
| Dean Abelon | Richard Macaluso | |
| Jack Anderson | John McMurray | |
| Steven Berke | Barry Mednick | |
| Lowell Blaisdell | Geoff Mills | |
| Billy Broadbent | Richard Moraski | |
| Alan Brokos | John Munns | |
| D. Bruce Brown | William Nowlin | |
| Edward Brown | Jon Ohman | |
| Thomas Brown | Gregg Pericich | |
| John Burbridge III | Todd Peterson | |
| Scott Bush | David Raglin | |
| Ken Carrano | Laura Leigh Rampey | |
| Peter Coolbaugh | Ben Rose | |
| Jim Cox | Michael Rosenwasser | |
| Paul DeFonzo | Charles Roussel | |
| Mike Dickerman | Bob Russon | |
| Joseph Favano | Robert Sawyer | |
| Diane Firstman | Douglas Schoppert | |
| F. X. Flinn | David Scott | |
| Adam Foldes | Bruce Slutsky | |
| Elizabeth Gray | Courtney Smith | |
| Steve Greanias | Thomas Stone | |
| John Gregory | Wesley Story | |
| Richard Hansen | Joseph Thompson | |
| Mike Haupert | John Thorn | |
| Leslie Heaphy | Neal Traven | |
| Thomas Heebink | Jay Walker | |
| Rock Hoffman | Steve West | |
| Thomas Hufford | Chris Williams | |
| David Hughes | Jeffrey Wood | |
| Herm Krabbenhoft | Jeremiah Woolsey | |
| Steven Landau | Robert Yahr | |
| William Larson | Don Zminda | |
| Thomas Lee |
Last call for papers: 2020 SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference
SABR and the International Women’s Baseball Center have announced a call for papers for the second annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference, scheduled for September 11-13, 2020, at Rockford University in Rockford, Illinois.
This year’s conference theme is celebrating African American women in baseball. All topics related to women’s baseball and the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues are welcome for individual oral and poster presentations.
Please submit abstracts of approximately 200 words, along with contact information and a short biography, by July 15, 2020, to Leslie Heaphy at Lheaphy@kent.edu.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Download 2020 SABR Annual Report
SABR’s 2020 Annual Report has been posted on the website and can be downloaded below:
On the Annual Reports page, you can download a copy of 2020 Chapter Reports, Committee Reports, Friends of SABR Report, and the Membership Ambassadors Report in the Appendix files on that page.
All previous SABR Annual Reports can also be found on the Annual Reports page.
SABR office continuing to work remotely
The SABR office, housed at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, Arizona, has been closed indefinitely due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Staff members will work remotely until it is advisable to resume normal operations on-site.
Please contact a member of the SABR staff by email or phone with any questions.
SABRcast with Rob Neyer: Listen to an interview with author Bill Nowlin
Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer.
Episode #67 on Monday, July 6 featured Bill Nowlin, a prolific historian of the Boston Red Sox and a member of SABR’s Board of Directors since 2004. He is the author of Working a “Perfect Game”: Conversations With Umpires and more than 75 other baseball books, including dozens published by the SABR Digital Library. He has contributed hundreds of articles to SABR’s BioProject. He is also one of three founders of Rounder Records, one of America’s most successful independent record labels and a member of the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. He was the 2011 winner of the Bob Davids Award, SABR’s highest honor.
Visit SABR.org/sabrcast to listen to the full episode.
Subscribe to SABRcast on your favorite podcast networks, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play, and listen to each episode as soon as it’s released on Mondays. To learn more, visit SABR.org/sabrcast.
5 new SABR biographies published
Five new biographies were posted this week as part of the SABR Baseball Biography Project. Here are the new bios published this week:
- Joe Murphy, by Paul Winter (first-time author)
- Dave Ricketts, by Eric Vickrey
- Dick Ricketts, by Eric Vickrey
- Tim Thompson, by Bill Nowlin
- Kyle Traynor, by Sarah Johnson
All new biographies can be found here: SABR.org/bioproject
- Find any SABR biography: You can visit sabr.org/bioproject to search for any player — or manager, executive, scout, spouse, broadcaster, or umpire — who appears in the SABR BioProject. In addition, we have pages for Ballparks, Broadcasters, Executives, Games, Managers, Scouts, Spouses, Umpires, Writers, people who were Famous Outside Baseball, and a lot more.
7 new stories published by the SABR Games Project
Seven new game stories were posted this week as part of the SABR Games Project. Here are the new game stories:
- April 14, 1925: Indians, Browns combine for 35 runs on Opening Day, by Chris Rainey
- August 31, 1932: Kiki Cuyler leads Cubs to 12th straight win, by Mark S. Sternman
- October 5, 1932: Minneapolis Millers come up short on ‘play of six decisions’, by Stew Thornley
- September 28, 1955: Minneapolis Millers win first Junior World Series in final game at Nicollet Park, by Stew Thornley
- April 19, 1956: Dodgers defeat Phillies in Jersey City opener, by John Burbridge
- September 27, 2011: Ryan Roberts grand slam caps record comeback for Diamondbacks, by Preston Salisbury
- September 29, 2019: Jorge Soler sets Royals, Cuban single-season home run records, by Kevin O’Brien (first-time author)
New Games Project stories can be found at SABR.org/gamesproject.
- Get involved: Have memories of a game you attended? Or a game you watched that caught your interest? Write about it! 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. We have editors and fact checkers who are willing to help you write your first article.
- Social media: Follow the SABR Games Project on Twitter or Facebook to keep up with new stories and updates.
Listen to recent episodes of Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM on Saturdays
Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM, a radio show hosted by former SABR Board President Vince Gennaro, is back at a new time. Listen to new episodes at 4:00-5:00 p.m. ET on Saturdays on MLB Network Radio.
You can also listen to archives of recent episodes on-demand on the SiriusXM Internet Radio app. Click here to learn more.
Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM focuses on examining and interpreting the statistical analysis that plays a critical role in baseball today. It airs 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.
Survey: American fans’ perception of the Korea Baseball Organization
While we are all anxiously awaiting the return of Major League Baseball, SABR member Jon Nachtigal, Min Jung Kim, and Min Hyun Kim, students at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, would like to know your perspectives on the Korea Baseball Organization.
Your responses to this survey are completely anonymous and will help us better understand the interest of U.S. baseball fans in the KBO. The survey should take less than five minutes.
We greatly appreciate your input.
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:
- Take a tour of the newly redesigned SABR.org website
- SABR 50 convention in Baltimore rescheduled for 2021
- SABR Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference rescheduled for 2021
- Leslie Heaphy, F.X. Flinn re-elected; Daniel Levitt elected as SABR Director
- Check out highlights and clips from the 2020 SABR Analytics Conference
- SABR Games Project reaches milestone with 2,000 stories
- SABR Digital Library: Braves Win! The 1995 World Champion Atlanta Braves
- The SABR Bookshelf: Spring 2020
- SABR Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference rescheduled for 2021
- Submit your creative writing for SABR’s Turnstyle baseball arts journal
- Get a gift for baseball fan in your life with the new SABR Store @ CafePress
- All e-books in SABR Digital Library available for free to members
All previous editions of This Week in SABR can be found here: https://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 Membership 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.
| Name | Hometown | Name | Hometown | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Alexander | Moreno Valley, CA | David Leeder | Oakville, ON | ||
| Jamie Armata | Wauwatosa, WI | Jorge Loreto | Santo Domingo, DOM | ||
| David Artemiw | Toronto, ON | Ted Makarick | St. James, NY | ||
| Martin Axel | Seal Beach, CA | Jin Mizushima | Tokyo, JPN | ||
| Thomas Billing | Springfield, OH | Jeffrey Petrucci | South Abington, PA | ||
| Brian Blackwood | Spokane, WA | Peter Phillips | Kingston, MA | ||
| Kellan Daley | Buffalo, NY | Michael Ramos | Mernda, AUS | ||
| Jim Fisher | Reston, VA | Lawrence Roop | Epping, NH | ||
| Cory Hare | Columbia, SC | Timothy Tangen | Westfield, IN | ||
| John Harrington | Newton, MA | Tom Tucker | Miami, FL | ||
| Brad Hayes | Atlanta, GA | Joe Tursi | Garden City, NY | ||
| Lonnie Hess | Baton Rouge, LA | David Waters | Memphis, TN | ||
| Mike Hoenigmann | St. James, NY | Henry Wells | Shingle Springs, CA | ||
| David Jordan | Cream Ridge, NJ | Mike Wesolowski | New York, NY | ||
| Grayson Kirkham | Colleyville, TX | Terry Wheeland | Winter Garden, FL |
Research Committee news
Here are the new research committee updates this week:
- Baseball Records: July 2020 newsletter
- Biographical Research: May/June 2020 newsletter
- Negro Leagues: July 2020 newsletter
Find all SABR research committee newsletters at SABR.org/research/committees.
Regional Chapter news
Here are the new regional chapter updates this week:
- Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter: July 7 meeting recap (St. Louis, MO)
- Boston Chapter: Read a new “Dispatches From the Mudville Bureau,” by Joanne Hulbert (Boston, MA)
- Connecticut Smoky Joe Wood Chapter: Summer 2020 newsletter (Hartford, CT)
- Emil Rothe Chicago Chapter: July 2020 newsletter (Chicago, IL)
- Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter: July 2020 newsletter (Milwaukee, WI)
Visit SABR.org/chapters for more information on SABR regional chapters.
SABR Virtual Events Calendar
Here are the upcoming virtual events on the SABR calendar:
- July 10: SABR Virtual: Day 2 with Tom Thress, David W. Smith, Mark Pankin, and a One-on-One interview with Cory Schwartz, hosted by Dan Evans (7:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 11: Talkin’ Baseball: Maxwell Kates (9:00 a.m. EDT)
- July 11: Jack Graney-Hank Gowdy (Ohio) joint chapter meeting (9:30 a.m. EDT)
- July 11: SABR Virtual: Day 3 with Lindsay J. Bell, Andy McCue, the Annual Business Meeting, and presentation of 2020 SABR Bob Davids Award (3:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 12: SABR Virtual: Day 4 with Jerry Amernic, Michael Haupert, Herm Krabbenhoft, and “Half a Century in Half an Hour: SABR’s 50 at 50 Project” with Leslie Heaphy, John Thorn, and Jason Schwartz (3:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 12: Robinson-Kell Chapter meeting with Joe Gallagher (7:00 p.m. CDT)
- July 13: SABR Board of Directors conference call (8:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 14: Dusty Baker-Sacramento and Lefty O’Doul Chapter joint meeting with author Chris Epting (7:00 p.m. PDT)
- July 15: Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter meeting with author Bill Nowlin (12:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 15: Baseball Cards Committee award ceremony with Mike Aronstein (9:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 16: Elysian Fields Chapter meeting with authors Joshua Prager and Gregory H. Wolf (1:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 16: SABR Virtual: Day 5 with Mark Armour, Perry Barber, Roberta J. Newman, and Civil Rights and Baseball: Perception and Reality with Dr. Louis Moore and Emily Hawks (7:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 17: SABR Virtual: Day 6 with Todd Peterson, Bernard McKenna, Brian Engelhardt, and Greg Gajus (7:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 18: Rogers Hornsby Chapter meeting (11:00 a.m. CDT)
- July 18: SABR Virtual: Day 7 with Mitchell Nathanson, Karen DeLuca Stephens, David Paulson, and Baseball Then and Now: Arnold Hano’s 94 Years in the Bleachers, with Arnold Hano, Jon Leonoudakis, and Jean Ardell (3:00 p.m. EDT)
- July 19: SABR Virtual: Day 8 with Curt Smith, Rob Fitts, Alan Cohen, and Keith Spalding Robbins (3:00 p.m. EDT)
Find more virtual meetings on our SABR Virtual Events Calendar page.
Around the Web
Here are some recent articles published by and about SABR members:
- Jayson Stark/Eno Sarris: In a 60-game season, the impossible could happen (really) (The Athletic)
- Rob Arthur: Racial Bias Shapes Which Players Make The Majors (Baseball Prospectus)
- Jonathan Judge: The Delta Method, Revisited: Rethinking Aging Curves (Baseball Prospectus)
- Rob Mains: Short-Season PECOTA Projections: A Closer Look (Baseball Prospectus)
- Mark Simon: 2020 MLB Hitter Projections (ACTA Sports)
- Tony Wolfe: Mel Rojas Jr.’s 2020 Season Could Become One of the Greats (FanGraphs)
- Howard Bryant: The exile of Oakland A’s Bruce Maxwell and the birth of MLB’s Black player movement (ESPN.com)
- Jay Jaffe: For Baseball’s Honorifics and Team Names, an Overdue Reckoning (FanGraphs)
- Marc Carig: Saving Hinchliffe Stadium, one of the last remaining Negro League parks (The Athletic)
- Jen Mac Ramos: On Bigotry, the 2010 Giants, and Baseball’s Devaluation of Labor (Baseball Prospectus)
- Brittany Ghiroli: What if … Calvin Griffith never moved the Senators out of D.C.? (The Athletic)
- Tom Junod: The Hero of Goodall Park: Inside a true-crime drama 50 years in the making (ESPN.com)
- Ben Lindbergh: A Farewell to the Waxahachie Swap (The Ringer)
- Anthony Castrovince: Now batting vs. Satchel Paige … Phil Jackson? (MLB.com)
- Michael Clair: Christie Brinkley’s Pinnacle card set history (MLB.com)
- Anna Kagarakis: Lou Gehrig’s ‘Luckiest Man’ farewell with Tara Krieger (Sports Time Machine)
- Brad Balukjian: When baseball players retire, they turn into accidental Buddhists (CNN)
- Gary Cieradkowski: Joe Jackson: Shoeless in Greenville (Studio Gary C)
- David Cloninger: Softball star Tina Whitlock ready to resume history-making path as minor league baseball coach (Charleston Post and Courier)
- Mark Del Franco: The card collector who became mayor of Cooperstown (Sports Collectors Digest)
- David Laurila: A Conversation with Cincinnati Reds Pitching Coordinator Kyle Boddy (FanGraphs)
- Heather Leah: Devereux Meadow: Exploring the remains of Raleigh’s lost 82-year-old baseball stadium (WRAL.com)
- Sarah R. Ingber/Davy Andrews/Roger Cormier: Too Far From Town: Lexington Legends (Baseball Prospectus)
- I.C. Murrell: When royalty visited Port Arthur in 1942 (Port Arthur News)
- Nicholas Sullivan: Bartow native Rap Dixon and the fight to get him into Cooperstown (Cartersville Daily Tribune)
- Bedford & Sullivan: Interview with David Krell on SABR and ‘Our Bums’ (Bedford & Sullivan Podcast)
- David A. Scott: Smoky Joe Wood and life after pitching (Medium.com)
- Mark Armour: Legitimacy (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)
- Nick Vossbrink: In the course of current events (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)
- Jeff Katz: Who Am I? (And Where Have I Been?) (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)
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.
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Originally published: July 10, 2020. Last Updated: July 10, 2020.