This Week in SABR: May 23, 2025

May 23, 2025/in This Week in SABR /by wpadmin

Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, May 23, 2025. Please note: The SABR office will be closed on Monday, May 26 for the Memorial Day holiday. Click here to view this newsletter on the web.

SABR 53: Hotel block, merch, ticket deadlines are next week
Armour, Puerzer win 2025 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Awards
Early registration now open for Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference
Submit candidate statements for vacant Board seat by May 28
All Campaign for Baseball Research donations matched, this week only
Vote now for SABR 19th Century Overlooked Legend of the Year

SABR 53: Hotel block, merch, ticket deadlines are next week

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. A few important deadlines are approaching soon, so make sure to register today:

Pre-order SABR 53 merch and game tickets: Avoid the rush at registration, and pre-order your SABR 53 convention logo polo shirt, T-shirt, baseball cap, or lapel pin online! The deadline to pre-order is May 30, 2025. Items will be available to be picked up when you arrive at the SABR convention. We cannot ship any pre-ordered items after the convention. New purchases will not be available on-site; the merch table is for pre-ordered items only.
Ballgame/tour tickets: Ticket orders for the following optional events also must be placed by May 30, 2025: Frisco RoughRiders game on Thursday, June 26; Globe Life Field ballpark tour on Friday, June 27; Texas Rangers game on Friday, June 27.
Hotel block: The special SABR group rate at the Westin DFW Airport of $169/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 May 30, 2025. The hotel offers a free 24/7 hotel shuttle to and from Dallas Fort-Worth International Airport. Note: After you register for the SABR 53 convention, you will receive an e-mail confirmation with details on how to book your hotel room at the SABR group rate. There are a limited number of rooms in our group block, so be sure to register for SABR 53 early!

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!

Armour, Puerzer win 2025 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Awards

The 2025 winners of the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, which honors the best articles on baseball history or biography completed or published during the preceding calendar year, are:

Mark Armour, “Satchel’s Wild Ride: How Satchel Paige Finally Made the Hall of Fame,” SABR Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2024
Richard J. Puerzer, “The 1939 Negro National League Championship Series,” published in The 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants; Frederick C. Bush, Thomas Kern, and Bill Nowlin, eds. (Phoenix, Arizona: SABR, 2024)

The selection committee included Barbara Mantegani (chair), Stephanie Liscio, Roberta J. Newman, and Allen Tait. For a complete list of winners of the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, click here.

Early registration open for Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference in Louisville

Early registration is open for SABR’s annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, which will be held on August 7-9, 2025, at the Galt House Hotel, 140 N. 4th St. in Louisville, Kentucky. All baseball fans are welcome to attend. 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)
Yoseloff Scholarship: Students, learn more or apply for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend the 2025 Malloy Conference. Deadline: June 6, 2025.
Contact: For questions, email Leslie Heaphy at Lheaphy@kent.edu.

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

Students, apply now for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend the Malloy Conference

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.

All applications must be postmarked or e-mailed to Scott Carter at scarter@sabr.org no later than June 6, 2025.

Click here to download an application or learn more at SABR.org.

All donations matched, this week only!

Over the past month, the Campaign for Baseball Research has outlined SABR’s efforts to expand, maintain, and preserve our baseball Research Collection and Research Resources. We invite you to support the future of baseball research by making a contribution during this important fundraising drive.

Thanks to one generous member, you have the opportunity to DOUBLE THE IMPACT OF YOUR DONATION, this week only. Baseball-Reference.com founder and Henry Chadwick Award winner Sean Forman will match all contributions made through Tuesday, May 27, up to a grand total of $7,500.

To donate or learn more about SABR’s Campaign for Baseball Research and the existing efforts and exciting new initiatives that will be funded by a successful campaign, visit SABR.org/donate/research-campaign.

Vote now for 2025 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.

All SABR members are eligible to cast a vote for the winner. The winner will be announced this summer during the Nineteenth Century Committee’s business meeting at SABR 53 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.

2025 finalists: Earlier this year, committee members selected the 16 finalists for the 2025 Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legend. Click here to view the finalists’ bios, compiled by project co-chairs Adam Darowski and Joe Williams. Voting in the final election will run until June 2, and will be open to all SABR members.
Vote now! Click here to access the 2025 ballot. All SABR members are eligible to vote in the election for this year’s Overlooked 19th Century Legend. You *MUST* select five candidates — ranking them from first choice to fifth choice — from among the candidates presented. You are only allowed to vote once. ALL BALLOTS MUST BE CAST PRIOR TO 11:59 p.m. PDT on Monday, June 2, 2025.

Click here for a list of past winners or to learn more about the project.

Submit candidate statements for vacant Board seat by May 28

Dan Evans’s election as President has created a vacancy for a Director’s seat, and a candidate will be appointed by the Board of Directors.

Any SABR member who is interested in filling the rest of that seat’s term — which begins at the conclusion of the Annual Business Meeting at SABR 53 in June and runs until 2026 — should fill out the candidate statement form and send an email to Mark Armour by May 28, 2025.

Students, apply for a Fall 2025 internship with SABR

The Society for American Baseball Research is seeking student interns to work during the Fall 2025 semester from September 1-December 1. The remote internship is an educational opportunity that may count toward college credit, covering 15-20 hours per week with a flexible schedule. The internship will be for a fixed period of time and is designed to provide the intern with skills and training that may be applicable to working in a nonprofit research environment or in other research-based organizations.

Please send a resume and cover letter in PDF form to jpomrenke@sabr.org. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until all positions are filled.

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

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

Read bios, games online from 2005 Chicago White Sox book

Earlier this year, the SABR Digital Library published The 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox: Grinders and Gamers, edited by Eric Conrad, Mark Morowczynski, Bill Nowlin, and Don Zminda, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the team’s historic World Series victory, the club that broke “the curse of the Black Sox” to finally bring the White Sox a championship after an 87-year drought. All of the biographies, game recaps, and essays

Biographies: Read bios of 2005 White Sox players and coaches at the SABR BioProject
Game recaps: Find recaps of memorable 2005 White Sox games at the SABR Games Project

Visit SABR.org/ebooks to download the free e-book edition of The 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox or save 50% off the purchase of the paperback edition.

3 new stories published at SABR Biography Project

John Clapp, by Larry DeFillipo
Dick Cogan, by Bill Lamb
Mert Hackett, by Bob LeMoine

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

5 new stories published at SABR Games Project

July 27, 1907: Larry McLean’s arm, bat propel Reds over Giants, by Gary Belleville
July 7, 1915: Gavy Cravath, Al Demaree help Phillies salvage Suffrage Day split with Giants, by Phil Williams
May 22, 1958: Ted Williams’s 16th career grand slam helps him bust out of a slump in Kansas City, by Bill Nowlin
April 28, 1991: Randy Ready opts for assisted triple play; Jason Grimsley gets first win of season for Phillies, by Bill Marston
October 4, 1991: Jim Thome’s first career home run pushes Cleveland past Yankees, by Andrew Harner

In addition, these game stories from SABR’s book The 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox: Grinders and Gamers have now been posted online:

July 17, 2005: Jon Garland’s dominant pitching completes White Sox sweep over Cleveland, by Steve Ginader
August 21, 2005: White Sox sting Yankees’ Randy Johnson with four homers in the fourth inning, by Brian Jacoby (first-time author)
September 23, 2005: José Contreras throws his first complete game to stop White Sox skid, by Michael Marsh
October 7, 2005: White Sox complete AL Division Series sweep of Red Sox, by Eric Conrad and Mark Morowczynski
October 11, 2005: Exhausted Angels outlast White Sox in Game 1 of ALCS, by Matt Vines
October 12, 2005: A.J. Pierzynski’s heads-up baserunning leads to Joe Crede’s game-winning hit to even ALCS, by Joseph Wancho
October 16, 2005: José Contreras fires Chicago’s fourth straight complete game to send White Sox to World Series, by Andrew Harner

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

Here Comes the Pizzer: The Found Poetry of Baseball Broadcasts
Edited by Eric Poulin

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
Connor Andrews	Pittsburgh, PA	Lucas Karls	Campbellsport, WI
Ron Baraff	Pittsburgh, PA	Jun Hee Kim	Champaign, IL
Daniel Beaver	Oakland, CA	Brianna Lamoureux	Miller Place, NY
Cody Blair	Lima, OH	Grace Maretsky	DeBary, FL
Christopher Bloom	Chicago, IL	John Maroon	Columbia, MD
Ben Bradley	Seattle, WA	Jonathan McGrain	Richboro, PA
Gio Crisafulli	Astoria, NY	Fred McNeil	Centreville, MD
David Dalpiaz	Champaign, IL	Rolando Medina	Burleson, TX
Francisco Diaz Solar	Richmond, VA	Bruce Nash	Sherman Oaks, CA
Daniel Eck	Chicago, IL	Ted Noon	Spokane Vly, WA
Timothy Garling	Phoenix, AZ	Yuhei Oguro	Yokohama, JPN
Casey Grombacher	Toledo, OH	Eric Petroski	Philadelphia, PA
Bruce Gunther	Bay City, MI	William Shelden	New Canaan, CT
Joe Hazen	Ossining, NY	Jack Southard	White Plains, NY
Ryan Hillhouse	Sacramento, CA	Braden Varga	New Carlisle, IN
Cael Kaestner	Luzerne, IA	Christopher Ye	Champaign, IL

Events Calendar: Find details of all upcoming SABR events.
Video Replays: This week, we heard from Vanessa Ivy Rose (Hall of Fame DNA: The Legacy of Turkey Stearnes); Doug Feldmann (One More For the White Rat); Tara Krieger (“Did Lou Gehrig Have a ‘Lost’ Pitching Career?”); Doug Krehbel (“Red Menace: The 1886 Cincinnati Enquirer’s ‘Monstrous Charges’ against Tony Mullane”); and the 19th Century Book Club (Baseball Before We Knew It). Click here to view video replays of virtual SABR events.

Upcoming Virtual Meetings

May 25: Baltimore Babe Ruth (MD) Chapter meeting with Nancy Finley (7:00 p.m. EDT)
May 26: Clyde Sukeforth (NH/ME) Chapter meeting with John W. Miller (7:00 p.m. EDT)
May 26: Halsey Hall (MN) Chapter research committee meeting (7:00 p.m. CDT)
May 28: Elysian Fields (NJ) Chapter meeting with Adam Darowski (7:00 p.m. EDT)

Upcoming In-Person Meetings

May 24: Bill Swank: Black Baseball in San Diego (San Diego, CA)
May 25: Emil Rothe Chicago Chapter ballgame/meeting (Chicago, IL)
May 25: Hanlan’s Point Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Toronto, ON)
May 30: Clyde Sukeforth Chapter community outreach meeting (Nashua, NH)
May 30: Halsey Hall Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Cologne, MN)
May 31: Hanlan’s Point Chapter: Beachville Baseball Event (Beachville, ON)
May 31: Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter vintage ballgame (St. Louis, MO)

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

Biographical Research: April 2025 newsletter

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

Magnolia Chapter: Spring 2025 newsletter (Atlanta, GA)
Rogers Hornsby Chapter: May 2025 newsletter (Austin, 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:

Save 40% off the purchase of baseball books at University of Nebraska Press through June 13
Jayson Stark: Presenting the MLB All-Quarter Century Team, the very best in baseball since 2000 (The Athletic)
Cathleen O’Hare: Falk College Sport Analytics Students Win Multiple National Competitions (Syracuse.edu)
Rob Mains: Atlanta Braves Holdings: An Unusual Start to an Earnings Call (Baseball Prospectus)
Patrick Dubuque: The Ecology of Baseball Stadiums (Baseball Prospectus)
Tyler Kepner: “Where did it start?”: A Tigers coach inspires players by charting their baseball beginnings (The Athletic)
Mark Simon: First In Their Division, 29th in Defensive Runs Saved (Sports Info Solutions)
Josie Albertson-Grove: One man’s quest to mark a historic St. Paul ballpark (Minnesota Star-Tribune)
Evan Drellich: 2 baseball agencies went to war, exposing a cutthroat industry (The Athletic)
Jay Jaffe: Trevor Story’s Slump and the Never-Ending Saga of the Red Sox Infield (FanGraphs)
Derrick Goold: What happens when a player gets demoted? Cardinals meet them with ‘action plan’ for return (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Dan Cichalski: When six orphans saved a train in New Jersey, the Babe came to visit (MLB.com)
Daniel R. Epstein: Pulled Fly Balls Aren’t for Everyone (Baseball Prospectus)
Alex Speier: Liam Hendriks explains why he went public about threats he and his wife received on social media (Boston Globe)
David Laurila: Connelly Early Is Opening Eyes in the Red Sox System (FanGraphs)
Russell A. Carleton: Bring Back The Shift (Baseball Prospectus)
Davy Andrews: How To Pull the Ball to the Opposite Field (FanGraphs)
Steven Goldman: Empathy and On-Base Percentage (Baseball Prospectus)
Michael Baumann: It’s Oriole Mess Out There (FanGraphs)
Keith O’Brien: Does Pete Rose deserve to be in the Hall of Fame? (MSNBC)
Bill Felber: The complicated Hall of Fame cases for Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe, and players pardoned by Rob Manfred (Call to the Pen)
Jason Coskrey: Can the Central League hold out against designated hitters? (Japan Times)
Gary Cieradkowski: Smead Jolley: Ahead of the curve (Infinite Baseball Card Set)
Mark Kolier: 3,000 career hits is an ‘Almost’ HOF guarantee (Almost Cooperstown)
Jeff Cohen/Len Aberman: Baseball and BBQ interview with Will Bardenwerper (Baseball and BBQ)
Andy Palomino: The 1970s Decade Sim Auction: Go Big Or Go Home (SABR Games and Simulations)

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: May 23, 2025. Last Updated: May 23, 2025.

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