This Week in SABR: June 28, 2024

June 28, 2024/in This Week in SABR /by Jacob Pomrenke

Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, June 28, 2024. Please note: The SABR office will be closed for the Independence Day holiday on July 4-5. Click here to view this newsletter on the web.

SABR 52: Check out the full schedule for Minneapolis convention
Last call for papers: Women in Baseball Conference
Thanks for your support of SABR’s Four Pillars Fund
Vote now for 2024 SABR Overlooked 19th Century Legend of the Year
Maryland students win 2024 Lee Allen History of Baseball Award

SABR 52: Check out the full schedule for Minneapolis convention

We’re just over a month away from SABR’s 52nd annual convention on August 7-11, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The full schedule for SABR 52 is now available online, and each day is full of terrific panels, presentations, and committee meetings that we’re sure you’ll enjoy. Check out the schedule and then click here to register for SABR 52 in Minneapolis.

There are a few important deadlines coming up next week on Friday, July 5:

The special SABR group rate at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis of $219/night plus tax (single/double occupancy) is only available to registered convention attendees. Please note: The cut-off date to book your room at the SABR group rate is Friday, July 5.

Avoid the rush at registration, and pre-order your SABR 52 convention logo polo shirt, T-shirt, baseball cap, or lapel pin online! Deadline to pre-order is also Friday, July 5.

And tickets for our optional events — the St. Paul Saints game or Target Field ballpark tour on Thursday evening and the Minnesota Twins game on Friday evening — must be purchased by Friday, July 5.

Register now: Click here for complete details on SABR 52 registration and optional sessions, including a Minnesota Twins game, St. Paul Saints game, and Target Field ballpark tour. Note: Single-day registration will go on sale beginning Friday, July 5.
Schedule: Click here to view the complete SABR 52 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 to view the schedule of Committee Meetings.

Visit SABR.org/convention to learn more.

The Sporting News Digital Archive presentation

At SABR 52, hear from Benson Taylor, Editor-in-Chief of The Sporting News, with a special presentation on the new Sporting News Digital Archive from 12:30-1:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 8.

Taylor is the Global Editor-in-Chief of The Sporting News. He has been a part of TSN for more than 25 years, and now oversees the content strategy for digital editions in 12 countries and six languages. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, home of TSN’s North American operations.

Click here to learn more about our Featured Speakers at SABR 52.

How to Do Baseball Research Q&A

At SABR 52, stop by the How to Do Baseball Research table at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Minneapolis to ask questions of SABR researchers, including Vice President Leslie Heaphy, Publications Director Cecilia Tan, and Director Bill Nowlin.

These informal Q&A sessions will be focused on baseball-oriented techniques and resources that are available to help you improve your research and writing. Whether you are an experienced SABR researcher or a first-time author, you can learn something new about information and tools — both online and off — that can help aid your baseball research.

Click here to find the full schedule at SABR.org.

Last call for papers: 2024 SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference

SABR and the International Women’s Baseball Center have announced a call for papers for the sixth annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference, scheduled as a virtual event for September 20-22, 2024.

Please submit abstracts of approximately 200 words, along with contact information and a short biography, by July 1, 2024, to Leslie Heaphy.

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

Thanks for your support of SABR’s Four Pillars Fund

Thank you so much for your support of SABR’s Four Pillars Fund. Because of the generosity of our donors, we were able to exceed our $60,000 goal for this fundraising effort!

Since we launched this campaign in late April, the Four Pillars Fund has outlined SABR’s effort to strengthen our core organizational values by championing baseball Research, committing to Preservation, furthering the reach of our Scholarship, and building a bridge to the Future of the Game.

We’d again like to thank all SABR members for your support of the organization, and most especially those who participated in the Four Pillars Fund campaign listed here.

— Scott Bush

Vote now for 2024 SABR Overlooked 19th Century Legend of the Year

Each year, SABR’s Nineteenth Century Research Committee selects its Overlooked 19th Century Base Ball Legend — a 19th century player, manager, executive or other baseball personality not yet inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

Finalist bios: Click here to view the finalists’ bios, compiled by project co-chairs Adam Darowski and Joe Williams
Vote now: Click here to access the 2024 Overlooked 19th Century Legend ballot

All SABR members are eligible to cast a vote for the winner. The winner will be announced during the Nineteenth Century Committee’s business meeting at SABR 52 in Minneapolis.

Bud Fowler, SABR’s 2020 Overlooked Legend, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was honored on Induction Day in 2022. The Hall of Fame’s Classic Baseball Era Committee is next scheduled to vote in December 2024.

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

Maryland students win 2024 Lee Allen History of Baseball Award

SABR is pleased to announce the winners of the Lee Allen History of Baseball Award for 2024. Jack McGuinn and Quinn Roberts of Mount St. Joseph High School in Baltimore, Maryland, won the Lee Allen Award for their group exhibit “Design Fun-Dations: The Rebranding Revolution That Revitalized Minor League Baseball.” Click here to read a copy of their companion paper (PDF).

Since 1996, SABR has honored the best baseball research project at the National History Day competition.

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

Mariners prospect Hogan Windish hits four home runs in a game

Seattle Mariners prospect Hogan Windish became the sixth player in Texas League history to hit four home runs in a single game, driving in nine runs for the Class AA Arkansas Travelers on Tuesday, June 25 against the Springfield Cardinals at Hammons Field in Springfield, Missouri.

Windish’s 4-HR game is the first in the Texas League since 2022, when Chandler Redmond became the second known minor-leaguer to hit for the “home run cycle” with the Springfield Cardinals. Springfield’s Tyrone Horne was the first player to accomplish that feat in 1998.

Click here for a comprehensive list of all 4-HR games in professional baseball history at SABR.org.

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

New Oral History interview: Harold Baines

Harold Baines, Hall of Fame inductee and Chicago White Sox great
Recorded June 18, 2024, by John McMurray

Visit SABR.org/oralhistory to find more interviews from the SABR Oral History Collection.

1 new story published at SABR Biography Project

Paul Hines, by Maurice Bouchard

Visit SABR.org/bioproject to learn more about the SABR BioProject or to get involved.

SABR Games Project celebrates Canada Day with 8 new stories

This week’s additions to the SABR Games Project all share a connection to baseball played in and by players from Canada, which celebrates Canada Day each year on July 1. Find more stories and essays on Canadian baseball in these SABR Digital Library books: Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball (2022); We Are, We Can, We Will: The 1992 World Champion Toronto Blue Jays (2022); and Au jeu/Play Ball: The 50 Greatest Games in the History of the Montreal Expos (2016).

May 7, 1901: Boston’s Win Kellum earns the first American League win by a Canadian pitcher, by Bill Nowlin
September 30, 1916: Cleveland’s Jack Graney keeps league lead in doubles; White Sox win to remain in race, by Andrew Harner
June 17, 1970: Braves bounce Expos in Hoyt Wilhelm’s only game in Canada, by Kurt Blumenau
July 15, 1977: Bob Bailor homers in 13th inning for Blue Jays’ first-ever walk-off win, by Larry DeFillipo
June 29, 1978: Expos defeat Blue Jays in inaugural Pearson Cup on 10th-inning suicide squeeze, by Gary Belleville
July 22, 1984: Doug Frobel’s 11th-inning double gives Pirates a split with first-place Padres, by John Fredland
September 13, 1995: Ottawa Lynx win International League championship, by Patrick Brown
April 30, 2003: Éric Gagné saves another Dodgers win, 4-0 over Phillies, by Steve Ginader

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

The 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants
Edited by Frederick C. Bush, Thomas Kern, and 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
Graham Becher	Indianapolis, IN	Todd Heidenreich	Montgomery Village, MD
Josiah Bryant	San Francisco, CA	Lucas Hori	Chatsworth, CA
Chuck Caranna Jr	Columbus, OH	Qingyi Li	Columbus, OH
David Coyne	Pottstown, PA	Wes Marfield	Kansas City, MO
Geneva Davis	Fort Wayne, IN	Chuck Motl	Port Washington, WI
Brendan Deely	Providence, RI	William O’Brien	Elmhurst, IL
Justin DePalma	Staten Island, NY	Kris Persaud	Bloomfield, NJ
Beckett Ehrlich	Weston, CT	Clark Sherman	Bozeman, MT
Ross Fitch	Harrisburg, PA	Austin Shirley	Seoul, KOR
Jack Gilden	Baltimore, MD	John Smolen	Annapolis, MD
Kayleigh Grieb	Beverly, MA	Zac Tucker	Murfreesboro, TN

Events Calendar: Find details of all upcoming SABR events.
Video Replays: This week, we heard from author Larry Schechter (The History of Fantasy Sports). Click here to view video replays of virtual SABR events.

Upcoming Virtual Meetings

June 29: Jack Graney (OH) Chapter meeting with Stephanie Liscio, Brian Powers, Ken Krsolovic, and Brian Fritz (10:00 a.m. EDT)
June 30: Baltimore Babe Ruth (MD) Chapter meeting with Steve Dittmore (7:00 p.m. EDT)
July 1: Elysian Fields (NJ) Chapter meeting with Eric Vickrey (7:00 p.m. EDT)
July 1: Clyde Sukeforth (NH/ME) Chapter meeting with Mitchell Nathanson (7:00 p.m. EDT)
July 3: Baltimore Babe Ruth (MD) Chapter meeting with Don Zminda (7:00 p.m. EDT)

Upcoming In-Person Meetings

June 28: Maddux Bros. Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Las Vegas, NV)
June 29: Connecticut Smoky Joe Wood Chapter breakfast (Middletown, CT)
June 29: Kekionga Chapter of Fort Wayne meeting (Fort Wayne, IN)
June 29: Ted Williams Chapter meeting (San Diego, CA)
June 29: Allan Roth Chapter meeting (Placentia, CA)
June 29: Bay Area/Sacramento Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Oakland, CA)
June 30: Bethesda Big Train ballgame/meet-up (Rockville, MD)
June 30: Philadelphia/Baltimore Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Reading, PA)
July 3: Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter fellowship meeting (St. Louis, MO)

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

Nineteenth Century: Vote now for the 2024 Overlooked Legend of the Year

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

Emil Rothe Chicago Chapter: June 2024 newsletter (Chicago, IL)
Lajoie-Start Southern New England Chapter: June 22 meeting recap (N. Attleborough, MA)
Larry Dierker Chapter: June 15 meeting recap (Sugar Land, TX)

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:

Bill Plaschke: How Dodgers historian Mark Langill takes on brain cancer with history (Los Angeles Times)
Claire Smith: Willie Mays was so much to so many (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Clinton Yates: Rickwood Field, Willie Mays and the balance of celebration and commemoration (Andscape)
Christina Kahrl: Why Willie Mays is MLB’s greatest player: Stats, facts and the case (San Francisco Chronicle)
Kevin Kernan: Willie Mays: A Trenton Giant (BallNine)
Charlie Vascellaro: How a Baltimore company helped commemorate the Negro Leagues at historic Rickwood Field (Baltimore Banner)
Historic marker commemorates Aberdeen baseball history (Dakota News Now)
Scott Lauber: Phillies turn first 1-3-5 triple play in 95 years against the Tigers (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Cody Christie: First SDI Rankings Highlights Twins’ Defensive Highs and Lows (Twins Daily)
Mark Simon: The Royals pitcher defense has been Zack Greinke-like (Sports Info Solutions)
Tyler Kepner: In the age of ‘Missing Bats,’ this slow-throwing Dodgers pitcher is an outlier (The Athletic)
Stephen J. Nesbitt: As MLB arm injuries mount, the rising cost of gas becomes clear (The Athletic)
Sarah Langs: Ober’s efficiency, Henderson’s historic HR pace and other wild stats (MLB.com)
Rob Mains: Baserunning: It’s Not Just Speed (Baseball Prospectus)
Jayson Stark: The 25-game hitting streak is vanishing (but don’t tell Bryan Reynolds) (The Athletic)
Alex Speier: Xander Bogaerts may feel settled in San Diego but he’ll always remain connected to Boston (Boston Globe)
David Laurila: An East-to-West Slider Is Tanner Houck’s Bread and Butter (FanGraphs)
Russell A. Carleton: Batting Average is Dead (Baseball Prospectus)
Matt Monagan: ‘Now, who’s got a statue?’ Dave Winfield honored in Alaska (MLB.com)
Eno Sarris: How fast could a human being throw a fastball? 106 mph, 110 mph — even 125 mph? (The Athletic)
Davy Andrews: The Power of a Picture (FanGraphs)
Ryan Divish: Mariners’ George Kirby has success after changing another pitch grip ‘on the fly’ (Seattle Times)
Mario Delgado Genzor: Jared Jones and the Plight of the Max-Effort Starter (Baseball Prospectus)
Craig Brown: New evidence on the origin of the Detroit Tigers’ nickname (Threads of Our Game)
Sports Historian John Vorperian Tosses Up Red Sox Magical Season (Yonkers Times)
Amanda Lane Cumming: You Can’t Go Dome Again (NW Baseball History)

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.

Are you receiving our e-mails? “This Week in SABR” goes out by e-mail to all members on Friday afternoons. If they’re not showing up, try adding “sabr.notes@sabr.org” to your contact list to ensure they show up in your inbox.

Originally published: June 28, 2024. Last Updated: June 28, 2024.

Search the Research Collection

SABR Analytics Conference