This Week in SABR: June 5, 2020

June 5, 2020/in This Week in SABR /by Jacob Pomrenke

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 June 5, 2020:

**Spring 2020 Baseball Research Journal is on its way soon**

Good news! The Spring 2020 edition of the Baseball Research Journal will be mailed out to all SABR members very soon.

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 will also be delivered to your inboxes soon.

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!

**Get a 25% discount on pre-orders of new SABR 50 at 50 book**

Baseball has seen many changes in the last 50 years, and SABR’s 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.

SABR members can get a 25% discount off the cover price by using the discount code 6SFF when ordering at nebraskapress.unl.edu or calling 800-848-6224. (To order outside of North America, please call +44 (0)1423 526350 and use the discount code CS40UNP.)

The diversity of SABR members’ interests is reflected in this fiftieth-anniversary volume — from baseball and the arts to statistical analysis to the Deadball Era to women in baseball. SABR 50 at 50 includes the most important and influential research published by members across a multitude of topics, including the sabermetric work of Dick Cramer, Pete Palmer, and Bill James, along with Jerry Malloy on the Negro Leagues, Keith Olbermann on why the shortstop position is number 6, John Thorn and Jules Tygiel on the untold story behind Jackie Robinson’s signing with the Dodgers, and Gai Berlage on the Colorado Silver Bullets women’s team in the 1990s.

Leading up to SABR’s 50th anniversary in 2021, the organization will also produce a series of online exhibits at SABR.org to highlight baseball’s most impactful players and off-field figures, ballgames, record-breaking feats, books, films, stories, milestones, and baseball cards.

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

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.

This week, we heard from baseball scientist Meredith Wills and minor-league player advocate Garrett Broshius.

Here are some more upcoming virtual events you can “attend” online:

June 5: Bud Metheny/Virginia Eastern Shore Chapter happy hour (6:00 p.m. EDT)
June 6: Talkin’ Baseball: Hall of Name author D.B. Firstman (9:00 a.m. EDT)
June 6: Pacific Northwest Chapter meeting with Inside Pitch author Rick Allen (1:00 p.m. PDT)
June 7: Detroit Chapter book club meeting (7:00 p.m. EDT)
June 10: Rocky Mountain Chapter meeting with MLB.com’s Manny Randhawa, Denver stadium executive Roger Kinney, broadcaster Jeff Kingery, and reporter Ed Henderson (9:30 a.m. MDT)
June 10: Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter book club meeting (7:00 p.m. CDT)
June 13: Halsey Hall Chapter meeting with authors Dan Levitt and Paul Spyhalski (9:00 a.m. CDT)

Find more upcoming virtual meetings and watch replays of past events on our SABR Virtual Calendar page.

Friends of SABR: May 2020

Here is a list of SABR supporters for the month of May 2020:


David Alvarez		Thomas Lee
Bill Arata		Harry Lesser
Jean Ardell		Michael Levine
Robert Axelrod		Daniel Levitt
Lawrence Baldassaro		Bill Lewers
Ed Baranoski		Andrea Long
Perry Barber		Michael Mack
Pam Bard		David Mahon
Stephen Barnes		Bill Marston
Travis Becker		William McClain
Jeremy Beer		Jeff Meder
Rev. Gerald Beirne		Celine Mercier
Thomas Bell		Noel Milan
Michael Bender		Geoff Mills
Michael Berry		Tony Morante
Clifford Blau		Jack Morris
Robert Bluthardt		Herb Moss
Terry Bohn		Thomas Mullen
Stephen Boren		John Murray
Maurice Bouchard		Jim Myers
Jeffrey Bower		Andrew North
Michael Broe		Bill Nowlin
D. Bruce Brown		James Odenkirk
Steven Brown		Tim Otto
John Burbridge III		John Outland
Daniel Busby		Dwight Oxley
Ken Carrano		Laura Peebles
Anthony Cavender		Gregg Pericich
Kevin Charlton		Todd Peterson
Phil Coffin		Greg Petty
Jack Coleman-Levy		Adrien Pilon
Donald Conway		Carl Rogan
Peter Coolbaugh		James Rook
Jerrod Cotosman		Michael Rosenwasser
Peter Cottrell		Steven Rothschild
Harrington Crissey		Charles Roussel
David Curtoys		Thomas Ruane
Al Davis		Bob Russon
Dennis Degenhardt		Marideth Sandler
Paul DeRosa		Robert Sawyer
Mike Dickerman		Edward Scahill
Thomas Drake		Matthew Schaedler
Steve Dunn		Steven Schmitt
Thomas Durbin		Dale Schneider
Michael Eckstein		Dan Schoenholz
Ron Elliott		Douglas Schoppert
Brian Engelhardt		Jeff Shames
D.B. Firstman		Robert Shelton
Robert Fitts		Tom Shieber
Bruce Fleming		Lynda Singer
F. X. Flinn		Curt Smith
Jack Flynn		Hal Smith Jr.
Adam Foldes		George Sommerfeld
James Forr		Paul Soyka
Vince Gennaro		Joseph Stanton
Matthew Glidden		W.B. Steverson
Duke Goldman		Thomas Still
John Gottko		Thomas Stone
John Graf		Christian Stopp
Margaret Gripshover		Wesley Story
Stephen Hanley		Martin Talbot
Steven Hannigan		Rob Taylor
Timothy Harner		Buddy Thomas
Leslie Heaphy		Joseph Thompson
Leslie Heaphy		John Thorn
Daniel Helpingstine		Thomas Thress
Tim Herlich		Wayne Towers
Rockwell Hoffman		Neal Traven
David Hughes		Thomas Tuttle
Jay Hurd		Paul Vastola
Noel Hynd		Marlene Vogelsang
Bill Johnson		M J Volkovitsch
Evan Katz		Ron Weaver
Matthew Keelean		Mike Webber
Aviva Kempner		Brian Werner
Lloyd Kepple		Steve West
Gregory King		Peter Winske
Steven Klugman		Jeffrey Wood
Paul Kovach		Fred Worth
Steve Krah		Mark Yecies
Mike Lackey		John Zinn
Bill Lamb		Don Zminda
Dirk Lammers		Larry Zorn
David Lang

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.

SABR Digital Library: Braves Win! The 1995 World Champion Atlanta Braves

Add a championship baseball book to your collection from the SABR Digital Library:

Braves Win! Braves Win! Braves Win! The 1995 World Champion Atlanta Braves
Edited by Tom Hufford and Bill Nowlin
Associate editors: Len Levin and Carl Riechers
Foreword by John Schuerholz
ISBN (e-book) 978-1-9701-5922-6, $9.99
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-9701-5923-3, $34.95
8.5″ x 11″, 484 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 Braves Win! for FREE from the SABR Store. Available in PDF, Kindle/MOBI and EPUB formats.
Paperback: Get a 50% discount on the Braves Win! 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 edition. Find more titles at SABR.org/ebooks.

Having trouble downloading our e-books? To view PDF files on your computer, click here to download the free Adobe Reader software. Having trouble downloading e-books to your Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader or iPad? Click here for additional help.

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.

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.

On Monday, March 16, ASU announced that all in-person classes would transition to online instruction for the rest of the spring semester. Please contact a member of the SABR staff by email or phone with any questions.

SABR Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference rescheduled for 2021

Due to the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, SABR’s Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference has been rescheduled for June 10-13, 2021, at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama.

Anyone who has already registered for the Malloy Conference is encouraged to contact Deb Jayne at the SABR office to discuss options regarding their conference registration fees, including converting it into a donation toward SABR’s Sustainability Campaign fund.

The Negro Leagues Committee is one of SABR’s original committees, formed in 1971. It has continued to preserve and highlight the contributions of African-American players in baseball history. Visit SABR.org/malloy to learn more.

SABRcast with Rob Neyer: Listen to an interview with Giants manager Gabe Kapler

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 #62 on Monday, June 1 featured San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler, who replaced future Hall of Famer Bruce Bochy following the 2019 season after a two-year stint as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. Kapler spent 12 seasons as an outfielder with the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, and three other teams, helping the Red Sox break their historic 86-year World Series drought with a championship in 2004.

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.

3 new SABR biographies published

Three new biographies were posted this week as part of the SABR Baseball Biography Project, which brings us to a total of 5,211 published biographies. Here are the new bios published this week:

Billy DeMars, by Bill Nowlin
Garry Maddox, by Phil Williams
Doug Mientkiewicz, by Ryan Palencer and Bill Nowlin

All new biographies can be found here: SABR.org/bioproj/recent

Search for any SABR biography: You can now visit sabr.org/bioproj_search to search for any player — or manager, executive, scout, spouse, broadcaster, or umpire — who appears in the SABR BioProject. You can also browse all of these BioProject categories and a lot more, including 300-game winners, Hall of Famers, 1960s All-Stars, or Negro Leaguers, at our Browse page: sabr.org/bioproj/browse.

4 new stories published by the SABR Games Project

Four new game stories were posted this week as part of the SABR Games Project. Here are the new game stories:

June 5, 1912: Roy Mitchell pitches, hits Browns over A’s, by Thomas E. Merrick
May 11, 1919: Walter Johnson retires 28 in a row as 12-inning shutout ends in a tie, by Andrew Sharp
September 14, 1952: Dramatic Eddie Mathews homer gives Boston Braves final home win, by Kurt Blumenau
August 7, 2019: Thousands of fans see their first MLB game in Boston — and it lasts 12 minutes, by Bill Nowlin

New Games Project stories can be found at SABR.org/gamesproject/recent. Find all published Games Project articles 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.

**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.

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:

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
Justin Beights	Charlottesville, VA	Donald Meisenheimer	Katy, TX
Mike Chibbaro	Greenville, SC	Chris Mosher	Louisville, KY
Robert Clayton	Washington, DC	Conor Mulville	Nottingham, MD
Alicia Crandell	Scottsdale, AZ	Bucky Nance	Fort Worth, TX
Robert DuPont	Rensselaer, NY	Alex Olsen	Oceanport, NJ
Jordan Eaddy	Rochester, MI	Alan Rosenberg	Denver, CO
Darren Gibson	Aliso Viejo, CA	Derrick Scheetz	Windsor Mill, MD
Daniel Hunt	Inver Grove Hts, MN	Arnold Serotsky	Poughkeepsie, NY
Helen Joyner	Livonia, MI	Sam Walker	Birmingham, AL
Matthew Kramer	Silverdale, WA	Andy Wang	San Diego, CA

Research Committee news

There are no new research committee updates this week.

Find all SABR research committee newsletters at SABR.org/research.

Regional Chapter news

Here are the new regional chapter updates this week:

Boston Chapter: Read a new “Dispatches From the Mudville Bureau,” by Joanne Hulbert (Boston, MA)
Lajoie-Start Southern New England Chapter: June 2020 newsletter (Providence, RI)
Rickwood Field Chapter: Friends of Rickwood Field June 2020 newsletter (Birmingham, AL)

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:

June 5: Bud Metheny/Virginia Eastern Shore Chapter happy hour (6:00 p.m. EDT)
June 6: Talkin’ Baseball: Hall of Name author D.B. Firstman (9:00 a.m. EDT)
June 6: Pacific Northwest Chapter meeting with Inside Pitch author Rick Allen (1:00 p.m. PDT)
June 7: Detroit Chapter book club meeting (7:00 p.m. EDT)
June 10: Rocky Mountain Chapter meeting with MLB.com’s Manny Randhawa, Denver stadium executive Roger Kinney, broadcaster Jeff Kingery, and reporter Ed Henderson (9:30 a.m. MDT)
June 10: Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter book club meeting (7:00 p.m. CDT)
June 13: Halsey Hall Chapter meeting with authors Dan Levitt and Paul Spyhalski (9:00 a.m. CDT)

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:

Take a 40% discount on all McFarland & Co. sports books through June 14 (McFarlandBooks.com)
Ken Rosenthal/Doug Glanville: Retired African American MLB players on race, baseball, America (The Athletic)
Marc Carig: The league that celebrates Jackie Robinson has gone silent (The Athletic)
Craig Edwards: MLB Takes Unusual Negotiating Tack (FanGraphs)
Emma Baccellieri: Ten Years Later, Can We Say Armando Galarraga Was Perfect? (Sports Illustrated)
Sam Miller: Bonds, balks and umps packing heat: Here’s what ‘this day in MLB history’ leaves out (ESPN.com)
Rachael McDaniel: Chi Sung Pil: A Trailblazer in Korean Baseball (FanGraphs)
Russell Carleton: What Can You Get for $400 Per Week? (Baseball Prospectus)
David Laurila: A Conversation With Astros Pitching Prospect Colin McKee (FanGraphs)
Mark Simon: Who Are Some of the Top KBO Hitters? (ACTA Sports)
Jay Jaffe: Roberto Ramos’ Youth and Power Stand out in the KBO (FanGraphs)
Peter Dreier: A Lavender League of Their Own (The Nation)
Bill Ladson: Remembering Jackie’s first black MLB teammate (MLB.com)
Sarah R. Ingber/Davy Andrews/Roger Cormier: Too Far From Town: Grand Junction Rockies (Baseball Prospectus)
Michael Arace: Search for Columbus’ top athletes uncovers hidden gem (Columbus Dispatch)
Anne R. Keene: “Whiz Kid” Robert Miller on War and National Will (Redford Connection)
Rob Mains: The Stupidest Rule in Baseball? (Baseball Prospectus)
Austin Hough: South Bend’s connection to Negro Leagues runs deep (Goshen News)
Joe Corso: Slaying the Monster: A Milestone and Observations (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)
Mark Armour: The One About Home Decorating (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)

Read these articles and more at SABR.org/latest.

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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