This Week in SABR: June 13, 2025

June 13, 2025/in This Week in SABR /by wpadmin

Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, June 13, 2025.
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Check out the full schedule for SABR 53
SABR Defensive Index rankings released through June 8
Steve Steinberg, Lyle Spatz win 2025 SABR Larry Ritter Book Award
Deadline extended! Students, apply now for a Negro Leagues Yoseloff Scholarship
Call for papers: SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference

Check out the full schedule for SABR 53

We hope you’ll join us at SABR’s 53rd annual convention, which be held on June 25-29, 2025, at the Westin DFW Airport Hotel in Irving, Texas. All baseball fans are welcome to attend, so we hope you’ll register today.

Full registration or single-day registration for SABR 53 can be purchased online in advance or on-site during convention registration hours beginning on Wednesday, June 25 at the Westin hotel. Click here for complete details on SABR 53 registration rates.

SABR 53 will feature a Texas-sized speaker lineup we know you’ll love — including Hall of Famers Ferguson Jenkins and Iván Rodríguez, and Rangers World Series-winning manager Bruce Bochy and President of Baseball Operations Chris Young — alongside an invigorated social experience emphasizing SABR’s ability to unite all of us in baseball fellowship.

Schedule: Click here to view the full SABR 53 schedule.
Featured Speakers: Click here to learn more about our Featured Speakers.
Research Presentations: Click here to view the full list of Research Presentations.
Poster Presentations: Click here to view the full list of Poster Presentations.
Committee Meetings: Click here for the schedule of Committee Meetings.
Exhibitors Room: Click here to learn about our Exhibitors Room vendors.
Transportation Tips: Click here for Dallas-Fort Worth transportation tips and area attractions.

Visit SABR.org/convention to learn more or to register today!

SABR 53 programming updates

Here are a few schedule updates for SABR 53; check out the full schedule for more details:

Author Rob Neyer will interview Texas Rangers President of Baseball Operations Chris Young at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 26.
The Baseball and the Arts Committee‘s meeting is now scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 28 in Trinity Ballroom 6-8.

SABR Defensive Index rankings released through June 8

Tampa Bay shortstop Taylor Walls and Atlanta first baseman Matt Olson lead their respective leagues in the updated SABR Defensive Index™ rankings through Major League Baseball games of Sunday, June 8.

Click here to view full SDI rankings by position through games of Sunday, June 8, 2025

The SABR Defensive Index is used to help select the winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award® and Rawlings Platinum Glove Award™, presented by SABR.

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

Steve Steinberg, Lyle Spatz win 2025 SABR Larry Ritter Book Award

In recognition of their illuminating and informative biography of one of the Deadball Era’s most colorful and controversial stars, Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz are the winners of the 2025 Larry Ritter Book Award for Mike Donlin: A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen, published by the University of Nebraska Press.

The Ritter Award is granted annually by SABR’s Deadball Era Committee to the author of the best book about baseball between 1901 and 1919 published during the previous calendar year. The winner’s work must demonstrate original research or analysis, a fresh perspective, compelling thesis, impressive insight, accuracy, and clear, graceful prose.

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

Deadline extended! Students, apply now for a Negro Leagues Yoseloff Scholarship

With generous funding from The Nanar and Anthony Yoseloff Foundation, Inc., SABR will award up to four scholarships to high school or college students to attend the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference on August 7-9, 2025, in Louisville, Kentucky. 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.

Download an application form: Click here to download a Yoseloff Scholarship form to attend the 2025 Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference

All applications must be postmarked or e-mailed to Scott Carter at scarter@sabr.org no later than June 23, 2025.

All baseball fans are welcome to attend the 2025 Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference. Full and single-day registration is available for a discounted rate before July 7, 2025.

Register: Click here to register online for the 2025 Malloy Conference. Full registration is $175 before July 7, $195 afterward. Students: $65 before July 7, $75 afterward. Single-day registration is also available for $70 for Friday or Saturday before July 7; $90 afterward. Extra tickets can be purchased for Thursday’s Education Forum at the Galt House, Thursday’s “meet and greet” reception at the Roots 101 African American Museum, Friday’s Louisville Bats baseball game at Slugger Field, or Saturday’s awards banquet at the Galt House. All of these sessions are included in the full registration package.
Hotel: A special group rate at the Galt House Hotel of $159/night (plus tax) is available to registered convention attendees. To book your room, click here or call 502-589-5200. The Galt House Hotel is located at 140 N. 4th St., Louisville, KY 40202.
Schedule: Click here to view the 2025 Malloy Conference schedule.
Information Packet: Click here to download the Malloy Conference informational packet (PDF)
Contact: For questions, email Leslie Heaphy at Lheaphy@kent.edu.

Visit SABR.org/malloy for more information or to register.

Call for papers: SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference

SABR and the International Women’s Baseball Center have announced a call for papers for the seventh annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference, scheduled as a virtual event for September 19-21, 2025.

Registration information will be available soon at SABR.org/women-in-baseball-conference.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Women Beyond the Diamond.” Topics can focus on ideas such as announcers, owners, executives, writers, artists, architects, and much more. All topics and time periods related to women’s baseball are welcome. Abstracts accepted for posters and/or oral presentations.

Please submit abstracts of approximately 200 words, along with contact information and a short biography, by July 1, 2025, to Leslie Heaphy.

Save the date: Join us for SABR Analytics Conference on Feb. 27-March 1, 2026

Save the date! The 15th annual SABR Analytics Conference will be held on February 27-March 1, 2026, at the Beus Center for Law and Society on Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix Campus in Phoenix, Arizona.

Registration information will be available at SABR.org/analytics beginning in the fall of 2025.

The Analytics Conference schedule will consist of research presentations and guest speakers from throughout the baseball analytics community, career development sessions led by experienced sports professionals, industry networking opportunities, and the Diamond Dollars Case Competition — all available for any aspiring front office executive or baseball fan to attend. Students will have opportunities for skill acquisition and development, including sessions on how to work with baseball-related data sets as well as databasing and SQL.

Visit SABR.org/analytics to learn more.

Join SABR’s Campaign for Baseball Research!

Research isn’t just part of our name—it’s the heart of everything we do.

From our expansive Research Collection to the powerful tools and resources we offer baseball scholars and fans alike, SABR is where baseball’s past meets its future. We’re working towards our vision of becoming the essential community for baseball worldwide—and we can’t do it without you.

This spring, we invite you to join the Campaign for Baseball Research. Our goal is to raise $75,000 to expand, maintain, and preserve SABR’s Research Collection and Research Resources for current and future generations of baseball enthusiasts. We will use your best gift of $150, $300, $500, or $1,000 to better serve our growing membership base, attract more attention for our research, and offer new research tools to all corners of the worldwide baseball community.

To donate or learn more about recent Research Collection projects and upgrades to our Research Resources, assets, and tools made possible by your donations visit sabr.org/donate/research-campaign.

Seeking peer reviewers for upcoming Baseball Research Journals

SABR’s publications team is seeking to expand our pool of peer reviewers for upcoming editions of the Baseball Research Journal. Are you a SABR member who has been published in the BRJ, The National Pastime, or a SABR book project? Would you like to read and give feedback on 1-4 papers per year?

Please email Liz Roscher with your subjects of expertise/interests and we’ll work with you to match up with any appropriate article submissions. All reviews are double-anonymous.

June 2 Board minutes posted

Minutes from the Board of Directors conference call on June 2, 2025 have now been posted on the SABR website.

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

Tickets now available for 2025 Saberseminar in Chicago

Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball, a weekend seminar for the benefit of charity, puts you up close with some of baseball’s top coaches, statisticians, scouts, doctors, and scientists. This year’s Saberseminar will be held on August 23-24, 2025, at the Hermann Hall Conference Center in Chicago. Tickets are now available for sale at saberseminar.com, including discounted rates for students.

During this event, you will grasp how science is blended with advanced baseball statistics and traditional scouting assessments to produce outstanding results for teams. Don’t miss this special opportunity to learn about the deeper game of baseball from insiders and pros and meet people who love the game. Every penny earned during this baseball weekend will go directly to the Alliance to Cure Cavernous Malformation, the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and our own scholarship fund.

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

6 new stories published at SABR Games Project

May 13, 1901: Eddie Plank begins Hall of Fame career with two relief innings in Athletics’ loss to Baltimore, by Andrew Harner
May 30, 1908: Boston’s Cy Young almost perfect on Memorial Day, one-hits Washington Nationals, by Thomas E. Merrick
June 21, 1955: ‘Never take a chance on Ted Williams, regardless of the count’, by Bill Nowlin
June 19, 1967: Last of its kind? Cleveland starting pitcher Steve Hargan hits walk-off home run, by Larry DeFilipo
July 25, 1998: White Sox hand championship-bound Yankees rare loss on Old Timers’ Day, by Madison McEntire
October 12, 2024: Lane Thomas’s grand slam powers Cleveland to Game 5 victory over Detroit, by John Elrod (first-time author)

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

Stan Musial
Edited by Bill Nowlin and Glen Sparks

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:

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
Art Altman	Savannah, GA	Autumn Julio	Canton, OH
Kyle Bennett	Ellerslie, MD	Ben Nauman	Fremont, CA
Jordan Cohn	Snellville, GA	Sergio Paredes	Los Angeles, CA
Peter Eisenstadt	Philadelphia, PA	Alan Quigley	Atlanta, GA
Daniel Friedman	Dallas, TX	Bill Schneper	Lancaster, PA
Mark Gawenus	Chatham, NJ	Harvey Walker	Boroughbridge, ENG
Kevin Greenlee	Fishers, IN

Events Calendar: Find details of all upcoming SABR events.
Video Replays: This week, we heard from Brian “Chip” Martin (Barney Dreyfuss; Brother Mathias); Casey Barber (“Using Notion for Baseball Card Collection Tracking”); Tim Newby (The Original Louisville Slugger); and Kenneth and Roswell Miller (APBA Baseball/Broadcast Blast). Click here to view video replays of virtual SABR events.

Upcoming Virtual Meetings

June 14: Bob Davids Chapter: Talkin’ Baseball with John Nogowski (9:00 a.m. EDT)
June 16: Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter meeting with John Nogowski (6:00 p.m. CDT)
June 16: Larry Dierker (TX) Chapter meeting with Andy Greenstone (7:00 p.m. CDT)
June 16: Clyde Sukeforth (NH/ME) Chapter meeting with Mark Panuthos (7:00 p.m. EDT)
June 16: Halsey Hall (MN) Chapter research committee meeting (7:00 p.m. CDT)
June 17: New SABR Member Experience Meeting (8:00 p.m. EDT)
June 18: Elysian Fields (NJ) Chapter meeting with Cassidy Lent (7:00 p.m. EDT)
June 19: Ottawa/Eastern Ontario Chapter meeting with Maxwell Kates (7:30 p.m. EDT)

Upcoming In-Person Meetings

June 13: Emil Rothe Chicago Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Schaumburg, IL)
June 14: Dayton Chapter book club meeting (Dayton, OH)
June 14: Halsey Hall Chapter book club meeting (Roseville, MN)
June 14: Rogers Hornsby Chapter Breakfast (Austin, TX)
June 14: Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter meeting (Baltimore, MD)
June 14: Elysian Fields Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Bridgewater, NJ)
June 15: Bay Area/Sacramento Chapter ballgame/meet-up (San Rafael, CA)
June 17: Bob Davids Chapter Hot Stove Dinner (Silver Spring, MD)
June 17: Lancaster History panel discussion on Negro Leagues baseball (Lancaster, PA)
June 18: Bob Davids Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Rockville, MD)
June 18: Hank Gowdy Columbus Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Columbus, OH)
June 18: Rocky Mountain Chapter monthly lunch meeting (Denver, CO)
June 19: Magnolia Chapter Third Thursday meeting (Sandy Springs, GA)
June 21: Babe ‘n’ Bob Chapter Breakfast (Edgewater, MD)
June 21: Hank Gowdy Columbus Chapter book club meeting (Hilliard, OH)
June 21: Rob Fitts: Collecting Japanese Baseball Cards (New York, NY)
June 22: Central Illinois Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Normal, IL)
June 25-29: SABR 53 (Dallas-Fort Worth, TX)

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

Collegiate Baseball: Spring 2025 newsletter
Women in Baseball: Summer 2025 newsletter

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

Boston Chapter: June 5 meeting recap (Boston, MA)
Jack Graney Chapter: June 2025 newsletter (Cleveland, OH)
Lajoie-Start Southern New England Chapter: June 7 meeting recap (N. Attleboro, MA)
Tampa Bay Roush-Lopez Chapter: June 7 meeting recap (St. Petersburg, FL)

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:

Eno Sarris/Evan Drellich: MLB’s baseball is behaving differently again, but no one seems to know why (The Athletic)
Russell A. Carleton: The Spider Problem (Baseball Prospectus)
Jay Jaffe: The Manny Machado Revival (FanGraphs)
Mark Simon: MLB’s Top Defensive Rookies (Sports Info Solutions)
Sarah Langs: Stats of the week: Webb’s dominance, Caglianone’s four-hit day (MLB.com)
Tyler Kepner: ‘People suck, dude’: MLB players on the impact of sports betting on fan interactions (The Athletic)
Rob Mains: Inequality, Mobility, and Salary Caps: Playoff Mobility (Baseball Prospectus)
Davy Andrews: A Walk’s as Good as an Aaron Judge (FanGraphs)
Derrick Goold: How pitch Andre Granillo learned from All-Star closer gives Cardinals the whiff they need (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Jayson Stark: Ten ways the 2025 Rockies are making history (in all the wrong ways) (The Athletic)
Meghan Montemurro: How Matthew Boyd’s pickoff move has been a weapon for the Chicago Cubs: ‘It’s a skill to learn that’ (Chicago Tribune)
Alex Speier: Garrett Crochet has done his part. Could the rest of the Red Sox rotation be turning a corner? (Boston Globe)
Patrick Dubuque: The Beautiful and Damned (Baseball Prospectus)
Howard Megdal: The double-edged sword of Athletes Unlimited’s new softball league for baseball (The IX)
John Jurgens/Ethan Wiles: Rockford to host Group Stage of the Women’s Baseball World Cup in 2026 (WREX.com)
Scott Allen: A military celebration went very wrong 50 years ago at Shea Stadium (Washington Post)
John Eisenberg: When the Orioles threw a no-hitter and lost (Baltimore Baseball)
James Pollard: The charitable foundation carrying the little-known legacy of ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ (Associated Press)
David Laurila: Ron Washington Wants His Players To Play Baseball (FanGraphs)
Jeff Cohen/Len Aberman: Baseball and BBQ interview with Ryan Dempster (Baseball and BBQ)
Steve Dunn: Pug, Fireball & Company interview with Bruce Thomas (YouTube)
Jason Schwartz: Ball Haul (SABR Baseball Cards)

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: June 13, 2025. Last Updated: June 13, 2025.

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