This Week in SABR: May 15, 2020

May 15, 2020/in This Week in SABR /by admin

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 May 15, 2020:

**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.

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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

Last month, we launched our Stay Home With SABR initiative, an eight-week effort from April 1 to May 31 to assist in limiting the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. During this time, all new membership dues SABR receives will be split with Heart to Heart International, a nonprofit organization that distributes urgently needed equipment and medication to partners around the world during this global crisis.

SABR chapters and committees are encouraged to set up virtual meetings to stay engaged with our members throughout the world at SABR.org. This week, we heard from authors Anika Orrock and Kat Williams on women in baseball, University of Washington professor Steve Calandrillo, Let’s Play Two author Ron Rapoport, and Boston Red Sox broadcaster Josh Lewin.

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

May 16: Cool Papa Bell (Mississippi) Chapter meeting with author Jeremy Beer (10:00 a.m. CDT)
May 16: Rogers Hornsby (Austin) Chapter meeting (1:00 p.m. CDT)
May 16: Emil Rothe Chicago Chapter meeting with R.J. Lesch (2:00 p.m. CDT)
May 17: Emil Rothe Chicago Chapter meeting with former minor-league player Jeremy Barfield (2:00 p.m. CDT)
May 18: SABRcast Live with Rob Neyer and ESPN analyst Doug Glanville (5:00 p.m. PDT)
May 18: Larry Dierker (Houston) Chapter meeting with former major-leaguer Deacon Jones (7:00 p.m. CDT)
May 20: Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter meeting (12:00 p.m. EDT)
May 20: Banks-Bragan DFW Chapter meeting with baseball scout Art Stewart (5:30 p.m. CDT)
May 21: Larry Doby (South Carolina) Chapter meeting with Minnesota Twins video coordinator Regan Durham (7:00 p.m. EDT)
May 21: Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter meeting with author Jeremy Beer (7:00 p.m. CDT)

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

The SABR Bookshelf: Spring 2020

Periodically throughout the year, SABR.org publishes The SABR Bookshelf, a listing of new books that are received at the SABR office.

Click here to view The SABR Bookshelf listings for Spring 2020

Click on the link above for more detailed information on each of these books:

Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of All Major League and Negro League Ballparks, Fifth Edition, by Philip J. Lowry
Whales, Terriers, and Terrapins: The Federal League 1914-15, edited by Steve West and Bill Nowlin
Braves Win! Braves Win! Braves Win! The 1995 World Champion Atlanta Braves, edited by Tom Hufford and Bill Nowlin
Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball’s Home Run Revolution, by Jared Diamond
Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask, by Jon Pessah
Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry, by Joan Ryan
The Cactus League, by Emily Nemens
Rosenblatt Stadium: Essays and Memories of Omaha’s Historic Ballpark, 1948-2012, edited by Kevin Warneke, Libby Krecek, Bill Lamberty, Gary Rosenberg
The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, The Chicago Cubs, & The Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932, by Thomas Wolf
Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid, by Willie Mays and John Shea
The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, by Anika Orrock
Gotham Baseball: New York’s All-Time Team, by Mark C. Healey
The Man Who Made Babe Ruth: Brother Matthias of St. Mary’s School, by Brian Martin
The Hall Ball: One Fan’s Journey to Unite Cooperstown Immortals with a Single Baseball, by Ralph Carhart
George “Mooney” Gibson: Canadian Catcher for the Deadball Era Pirates, by Richard C. Armstrong and Martin Healy Jr.
Billy Ball: Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A’s, by Dale Tafoya
Summer Baseball Nation: Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues, by Will Geoghegan
Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original, by Mitchell Nathanson
Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star, by Kat D. Williams
Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between, by Eric Nusbaum
Last Ride of the Iron Horse: How Lou Gehrig Fought ALS to Play One Final Championship Season, by Dan Joseph
Future Value: The Battle for Baseball’s Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar, by Eric Longenhagen and Kiley McDaniel
A Fan’s Guide to Baseball Analytics: Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball, by Anthony Castrovince
Hall of Name: Baseball’s Most Magnificent Monikers from ‘The Only Nolan’ to ‘Van Lingle Mungo’ and More, by D.B. Firstman

Bolded names indicates that the author(s) is a SABR member. Click here for a list of publishers found in the SABR Bookshelf, along with their contact information.

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.

Donate today to the SABR Sustainability Campaign fund

SABR is an organization focused on baseball history, research, and benchmarks, and this is unquestionably a first. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is changing around us daily. We are all searching for silver linings, distractions, and ways to minimize the distance we are all feeling and the challenges we are facing.

One constant you can rely on — now more than ever — is that SABR will continue to uphold our mission to foster the study, discussion, and understanding of all aspects of baseball. But we need your help!

Click here to donate to the SABR Sustainability Campaign fund

We’re facing major challenges in the coming year. The postponement of the SABR 50 convention to July 14-18, 2021, will cause SABR to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue. These resources are essential in pursuing our mission and delivering the membership experience our community has come to expect.

Please contribute to the SABR Sustainability Campaign fund. The SABR Board of Directors is leading the way, as all Directors are donating their SABR 50 registration fee to this fund. The Board is joined by hundreds of members who are doing the same.

We are asking all members to make a donation above and beyond their normal giving, equivalent to SABR 50 registration. This is an extraordinary request made due to extraordinary circumstances. We thank all of our members who have donated their registration fees and thank all members in advance for their charitable contributions to the fund.

If you donate $330 (the cost of annual convention registration), you will receive:

$50 off your 2021 Annual Convention registration
Hard copy of the 2020 edition of The National Pastime delivered to your door
Exclusive VIP online streaming video content with baseball personalities

If you donate $500, you will receive:

All the benefits listed above
Hard copy of the SABR 50 at 50 anthology book, featuring the 50 most influential articles SABR has published

All gifts are tax deductible except for the value of the benefits received. Visit SABR.org/donate/sustain to learn more.

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.

Friends of SABR: April 2020

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


Ron Adams		Tina Leefers
Michael Ageno		Bob LeMoine
Andy Aiello		Fred Lenger
Bruce Allardice		Allison Levin
David Alvarez		Leonard Levin
Mark Armour		Linda Levin
Brian Arnold		Ira Levine
Bob Bailey		Joseph Luchok
Lawrence Baldassaro		Peter Macialek
Bill Ballew		Jaclyn Mahoney
Edward Barbini		David Markus
Jim Bard		Rob McBride
Pam Bard		Megan McCormick
Michael Bates		Lawrence McCray
Matthew Bednarski		Andy McCue
Evelyn Begley		Michael McCullough
Barry Bengtsson		Paul McGrath
Timothy Blaker		Tom McGrath
Mike Blanco		Gary McIntosh
Matthew Bloss		Richard McIntosh
Phillip Bolda		Howard Megdal
Mark Bonino		Thomas Merrick
Benita Boxerman		Sheldon Miller
Burton Boxerman		Andrew Milner
Steve Braccini		Anthony Morante
Thomas Bradley		Ed Morton
Stephen Bratkovich		Steve Murphy
Quinn Brecker		Jim Myers
Stephanie Brecker		Nancie Myre
Tyrone Brooks		Tad Myre
D. Bruce Brown		David Neft
Robert Brown		Bob Neuman
Edward Browning		Robert Neyer
Frederick Bush		Bill Nowlin
Ann Carrano		Shawn O’Hare
Ken Carrano		Helen Okenka
Bob Carter		Stan Okenka
John Carter		Gary Olson
Jim Case		Jeff Orner
Dave Chase		Jeffrey Orner
Karl Cicitto		Sean O’Rourke
Alan Cohen		Ethan Osman
Vincent Comparato		Robert Osman
Peter Coolbaugh		Tim Otto
Jim Cox		James Overmyer
Ron Cox		Dwight Oxley
David Curtoys		David Paulson
Don Daglow		Laura Peebles
Jon Daniels		Gregg Pericich
Stephen Daniels		Raymond Piccini
Dennis Degenhardt		Donald Plavnick
Richard Dempsey		Mel Poplock
Gary Dolny		Kent Putnam
Robert Dorin		John Rall
Reid Duffy		Patrick Ray
Mark Dugo		CJ Remmel
Jim Dunphy		Carl Rhoads
Len Eddinger		Michael Rice
Ed Edmonds		AJ Richard
Gary Eller		William Richmond
Elena Elms		Stephen Roney
Gwendolyn Elsberry		James Rook
Steven Elsberry		Elizabeth Roscher
Michael Emeigh		Michael Rosenwasser
M. David Emmett		Harry Rothgerber
Bruce Enos		Charles Roussel
Jonathan Epstein		John Ruoff
Roger Erickson		Bob Russon
Ellen Fingerman		Helen Russon
Jan Finkel		William Ryczek
D.B. Firstman		Marideth Sandler
Scott Fischthal		Robert Sawyer
F.X. Flinn		Douglas Schoppert
Adam Foldes		Jason Schwartz
Edward Fong		Jonathan Schwebel
Kenneth Fricke		Jamie Selko
Greg Funk		Nancy Selko
Robert Garratt		Tucker Selko
Steven Gietschier		Andrew Sharp
Irvin Goldfarb		James Shaull
Sam Goldstein		Mary Shea
John Green		Blake Sherry
Michael Green		David Shiner
Eric Haist		David Siegel
Tom Hall		Ira Siegel
Michael Hammon		Mark Simon
Dean Hanley		Lynda Singer
Laura Hansen		Mike Skoog
Richard Hansen		Richard Smiley
David Harris		Amy Smith
Leslie Heaphy		David Smith
Daniel Helpingstine		Mark Souder
Kent Henderson		Tony Stahl
Paul Hensler		Maxine Stansell
William Hickman		Steve Steinberg
Lon Hildreth		Jeb Stewart
John Paul Hill		Thomas Stone
Brenda Himrich		Wesley Story
Rockwell Hoffman		John Strohbusch
Mark Hoose		Kyle Swaney
Mark Hoyle		Johnny Tallant
Peter Hoyos		Robert Tholkes
Jeff Hubbard		Joseph Thompson
David Hughes		John Thorn
Ann Huidekoper		Stew Thornley
Joanne Hulbert		Wayne Towers
Carl Isackson		Neal Traven
Brenda Janes		Thomas Tuttle
Rob Janes		Jeff Twardus
Tim Jenkins		Dennis VanLangen
Derrick Jones		Richard Verbit
Michael Kane		Wayne Voltz
Mark Kanter		Milton von Minden
Maxwell Kates		David Vondle
Matthew Keelean		Ronald Weaver
Harry Keller		Steven Weiner
Kenneth Keller		Carolyn Weiss
Victor Keller		Eric Weiss
Thomas Kern		Steve West
David Kimball		Robert Whelan
Jeff Kindig		J. R. Wildridge
Francis Kinlaw		Philip Williams
Marilyn Klar		Beach Wires
Christina Knoedler		Gregory H. Wolf
Mary Knox		Anne Wolfson
Kit Krieger		Jeffrey Wood
Thomas Larwin		Robert Wright
Steven Lauer		Jack Zerby
Todd Lebowitz		Don Zminda
Thomas Lee		Thomas Zocco
James Leefers		Joe Zureick

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 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 Live with Rob Neyer: Listen to an interview with Red Sox broadcaster Josh Lewin

As part of our Stay Home With SABR intiative, SABRcast with Rob Neyer will be recorded via online livestream each Monday night at 5:00 p.m. PDT. Each episode will feature nationally known guests plus an interactive Q&A in which all baseball fans can participate.

Episode #59 on Monday, May 11 featured Josh Lewin, who has spent 25 years as a broadcaster for the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, and three other MLB teams. He is the host of a weekly baseball podcast called The Throwback League where he simulates broadcasts between World Series teams from the last four decades against each other in a March Madness-style bracket. He called national Game of the Week packages and postseason games for Fox Sports from 1996 to 2011 and has called UCLA Bruins football and men’s basketball games since 2016. In 2015, he called a Mets World Series game and an NFL game in Baltimore in the same day.

Visit SABR.org/sabrcast to listen to the full episode.

Join us: Listen to SABRcast Live on Monday, May 18 with ESPN analyst Doug Glanville

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.

7 new SABR biographies published

Seven new biographies were posted this week as part of the SABR Baseball Biography Project, which brings us to a total of 5,200 published biographies. Here are the new bios published this week:

Alexander Bannwart, by Bill Lamb
Dick Enberg, by Alan Reifman
Travis Harper, by John Wickline
Lonnie Maclin, by Kevin Bley (first-time author)
Mike O’Berry, by Bill Nowlin
Pat Underwood, by Todd McDorman
Tom Underwood, by Todd McDorman

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.

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 29, 1922: Ross Youngs hits for the cycle as Giants go on slugging spree against Braves, by Mike Huber
June 4, 1925: Kiki Cuyler leads Forbes Field fireworks as Pirates pound Phillies, by Mike Huber
September 9, 1945: Dick Fowler becomes first Canadian to toss a major-league no-hitter, by Gary Belleville
June 4, 1953: Pirates trade Ralph Kiner to Cubs just before game time, by Peter Seidel
April 6, 1971: Billy Williams’s homer in 10th breaks up pitchers’ duel on Opening Day, by Steve Dunn
June 8, 2005: Wily Mo Pena’s home run caps comeback win for Reds, by Ryan Borgemenke
July 23, 2019: Gregorius’s 7 RBIs, Hicks’s homer and catch send Yankees to extra-innings win, by Stew Thornley

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
Mike Barlow	Fort Worth, TX	Leland Johnson	Fort Worth, TX
John Bender	Yachats, OR	Wendell Jones	Louisville, KY
Brett Bennett	Washington, DC	David Laude	Downers Grove, IL
Michael C. Berry	New Albany, OH	Daniel Marowski	Farmington Hills, MI
Ron Cassie	Baltimore, MD	Kevin O’Brien	Kansas City, MO
John Conniff	Washington, DC	Abigail Ohlmeyer	Liverpool, NY
Noah Dubois	Conway, NH	Patrick Renaud	Montreal, QC
Karla Espinoza	Culiacan, MEX	Mel Schmittroth	Astoria, NY
Eileen Gascon	Elk Grove, IL	Hunter Seidler	Fishers, IN
John Gidley	Maple Glen, PA	Jonathan Tomaszewski	Raleigh, NC
Catherine Gierak	Hopetoun Park, AUS	Michael Wertzberger	Marlton, NJ
Matthew Hartnett	Philadelphia, PA	David West	Seattle, WA
John Heeg	Mattituck, NY	Jordan Wolf	Lawrence, KS
Nolan Howard	Dedham, MA	Clayton Wollner	Sussex, WI
Ellis Jefferson	Oak Park, MI	John Woods	Miamisburg, OH
Nile Johnson	Forest Hills, NY	Cole Zeiter	Liberty Center, OH

Research Committee news

Here are the new research committee updates this week:

BioProject: May 2020 newsletter
Women in Baseball: Spring 2020 newsletter

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

Regional Chapter news

Here are the new regional chapter updates this week:

Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter: May 2020 newsletter (Baltimore, MD)
Boston Chapter: Read a new “Dispatches From the Mudville Bureau,” by Joanne Hulbert (Boston, MA)
Buck O’Neil/North Florida Chapter: May 6 meeting recap (Tallahassee, FL)
Hemond-Delhi Arizona Chapter: May 2020 newsletter (Phoenix, AZ)
Northeast Florida Chapter: May 5 meeting recap (Jacksonville, FL)

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:

May 16: Cool Papa Bell (Mississippi) Chapter meeting with author Jeremy Beer (10:00 a.m. CDT)
May 16: Rogers Hornsby (Austin) Chapter meeting (1:00 p.m. CDT)
May 16: Emil Rothe Chicago Chapter meeting with R.J. Lesch (2:00 p.m. CDT)
May 17: Emil Rothe Chicago Chapter meeting with former minor-league player Jeremy Barfield (2:00 p.m. CDT)
May 18: SABRcast Live with Rob Neyer and ESPN analyst Doug Glanville (5:00 p.m. PDT)
May 18: Larry Dierker (Houston) Chapter meeting with former major-leaguer Deacon Jones (7:00 p.m. CDT)
May 20: Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter meeting (12:00 p.m. EDT)
May 20: Banks-Bragan DFW Chapter meeting with baseball scout Art Stewart (5:30 p.m. CDT)
May 21: Larry Doby (South Carolina) Chapter meeting with Minnesota Twins video coordinator Regan Durham (7:00 p.m. EDT)
May 21: Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter meeting with author Jeremy Beer (7:00 p.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:

Steven Goldman: Emptying the Hall of Fame (Baseball Prospectus)
Rob Arthur: MLB’s new reopening plan has a lot of problems (Baseball Prospectus)
Jay Jaffe: A brief introduction to some KBO awards (FanGraphs)
Rob Mains: The 80-game record holders (Baseball Prospectus)
Alex Coffey: How Sandy Koufax unleashed Dave Stewart’s stare on the baseball world (The Athletic)
Stephanie Apstein: Before ruling baseball, Scott Boras failed at baseball (Sports Illustrated)
Terry Cannon: Foster, Patkin, Costas elected to Baseball Reliquary’s Shrine of the Eternals (Baseball Reliquary)
Michael Baumann: Michael Jordan’s .202 batting average is more impressive than it seems (The Ringer)
Rachel Blount: Toni Stone of St. Paul was first woman to be a regular in men’s pro baseball (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Rachael McDaniel: Snowstorms, lies, and the best game of baseball ever played (FanGraphs)
Lauren Rohr: St. Charles home holds history of lesbian couple with AAGPBL ties (Daily Herald)
Sarah R. Ingber/Davy Andrews/Roger Cormier: Too far from town: Burlington Bees (Baseball Prospectus)
David Laurila: Seattle’s Evan White angles up, sort of (FanGraphs)
Michael Arace: Findlay man traces ties to Tigers’ Ty Cobb (Columbus Dispatch)
John Florio/Ouisie Shapiro: J.L. Wilkinson stood out as the only white owner in the first Negro League (The Undefeated)
Joe Guzzardi: Long ago, Cubs trained on Catalina Island (NoozHawk)
Gary Cieradkowski: Rabbit Lowry and the 1921 Baltimore Orioles (Studio Gary C)
David A. Scott: Jim Bagby flashes for 1920 Indians, but will soon fade (Medium.com)
Andrew Forbes: Convergences (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)
Michael Kane: Tobacco Cards See Daylight Again After the Walls Come Down (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)
Tim Jenkins: The Big Sadowski (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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