This Week in SABR: November 4, 2022

November 4, 2022/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 November 4, 2022:

2022 Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners announced

For the 10th consecutive season, the SABR Defensive Index™ was used to help select the winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award and Rawlings Platinum Glove Award™, presented by SABR. The SABR Defensive Index accounts for approximately 25 percent of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award selection process which are added to the votes from the managers and coaches.

The 2022 Gold Glove winners were announced on ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight” on Tuesday, November 1.

Click here to view the final SDI rankings for the 2022 season

Voting is now open for the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award, presented by SABR. A combination of the SABR Defensive Index and the national fan vote will determine who takes home the honor in each League. The winners of the Rawlings Platinum Glove Awards will be announced on Friday, November 11.

Click here to view the 2022 Gold Glove Award winners at SABR.org.

Submit your presentation abstract for 2023 SABR Analytics Conference

SABR and Sports Info Solutions are excited to announce the call for presentations for the SABR Analytics Conference on March 10-12, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Abstracts of proposed research presentations should be no more than 500 words in length, and must include the abstract’s title, review of previous work on the subject, a summary of the research methodology and preliminary and/or final results, and the expected contribution to the field of baseball analytics offered by this work. Please send all abstracts to this e-mail address: analytics@sportsinfosolutions.com and clearly indicate whether you are submitting for the general track or for the student track of presentations.

The submission deadline for all 2023 SABR Analytics Conference presentation abstracts is 11:59 p.m. MST on November 23, 2022.

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

SABR Member Benefit Spotlight: Renewing Your Membership

As a SABR member, you have vast resources and benefits at your disposal. With so much information at your fingertips, we realize it can be overwhelming to absorb it all! To highlight key benefits, read on for a SABR Member Benefit Spotlight, an email series that identifies and explains some of the most valuable features of your membership. We hope this allows you to take full advantage of all SABR has to offer.

This month’s issue shows you how to renew your membership and update your profile information.

Click here to watch a short video on how to renew your membership.

SABR Digital Library: From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium

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

From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium: Great Games in Philadelphia’s Lost Ballpark
Edited by Gregory H. Wolf
Associate Editors: Len Levin, Bill Nowlin, and Carl Riechers
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-970159-85-1, $9.99
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-970159-86-8 paperback, $39.95
8.5″ x 11″, 398 pages

Click here for a 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 From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium for FREE from the SABR Store. Available in PDF, MOBI, EPUB/Kindle formats.
Paperback: Get a 50% discount on the From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium paperback edition from the SABR Store ($19.95 includes shipping/tax; delivery via Amazon Kindle Direct can take up to 4-6 weeks.)

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.

Early registration open for 2023 SABR Analytics Conference in Phoenix

Early registration is now open for the SABR Analytics Conference, which will be held in person from March 10-12, 2023, at the Beus Center for Law and Society on Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix Campus in Phoenix, Arizona.

We’ll bring together the top minds in the baseball analytics community to discuss, debate, and share insightful ways to analyze and examine the great game of baseball. Register today to join us!

General sessions will be held in person on Friday, March 10 through Sunday, March 12 at the Beus Center for Law and Society in downtown Phoenix. General Session registration includes access to all programming held at the Beus Center for Law and Society, including research presentations, panel discussions, Friday evening networking reception, a boxed lunch on Friday and Saturday afternoon, and coffee talks on Saturday and Sunday morning.

Students will have two registration options, virtual or in-person, with both including access to the General Session on Friday, March 10 through Sunday, March 12, and a student-only virtual session on Thursday, March 9.

Registration: Click here to register for the 2023 SABR Analytics Conference. Early-bird registration is $395 for SABR members, $495 for non-members, and $150 for currently enrolled high school or college students. Student-only virtual registration is $50.
Student Registration: Students should email Scott Carter with a photo of their student ID to receive a special link to register at a discounted rate. Students have the option of choosing virtual ($50) or in-person ($150) registration. All student registrations also include a complimentary one-year SABR membership, which will be fulfilled after event sign-up.

Visit SABR.org/analytics to learn more.

Students, apply now for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend the 2023 SABR Analytics Conference

With generous funding from The Nanar and Anthony Yoseloff Foundation, Inc., SABR will award up to four scholarships to high school and college students who wish to attend the SABR Analytics Conference on March 10-12, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. This scholarship will pay for registration, transportation and lodging fees associated with the conference up to a total value of $1,250.

Download a Yoseloff Scholarship application to attend the 2023 SABR Analytics Conference

The objective of this scholarship fund is to encourage student engagement with baseball analytics, and to engender an active interest in baseball research and SABR. The Yoseloff scholarship is to assist young researchers who want to attend the SABR Analytics Conference and to introduce them to fellow SABR members and professionals within the baseball community. Through this fund, SABR hopes to inspire future baseball research, expose students to high-quality research and build the research capability of interested students.

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

Help us Bring it Home and make 2022 a historic success for SABR!

As SABR continues toward our vision of becoming the essential community for the world of baseball, it is gifts from members like you who sustain our organization, allowing us to produce wonderful baseball research and programming that reaches people everywhere.

You can support SABR’s end of year Bring it Home Campaign by making a gift of $150 or more today. We will use your best gift of $150, $300, $500, or $1,000 to boost SABR’s general operations.

Contributions from generous donors like you are vital in helping SABR maintain core mission programming, develop new initiatives, and ensure affordable membership access:

Support for Core Programming: Your donations help make SABR events possible and accessible, while fueling the productivity and development of our publishing efforts.
Support for New Initiatives: Your donations allow SABR to maintain its relevance and respectability in an ever-changing environment.
Support for Affordable Membership Access: Your donations are crucial to keeping SABR membership affordable for all, a critical aspect of fulfilling our vision to become the essential community for the world of baseball.

Visit SABR.org/donate/2022 to learn more.

Sign up now for SABR Analytics Certification online course

It’s time to get SABR Certified! The first course in the new SABR Analytics Certification program — Conversational Analytics and Critical Thinking in Baseball — is available online now.

The SABR Analytics Certification program is an online, on-demand curriculum offering professional development and learning opportunities for those interested in elevating their skills and knowledge relating to baseball analytics. The curriculum was developed by current baseball professionals, including employees of Major League Baseball and its clubs.

SABR members get a significant discount on this Analytics Certification course registration, saving $55 off the regular price.

Visit SABR.org/analytics/certification to sign up today or learn more.

SABR Upcoming Events

SABR chapters and committees are encouraged to set up virtual meetings to stay engaged with our members throughout the world at SABR.org.

Can’t-Miss Event: All baseball fans are invited to join us for this month’s presentation in the SABR 19th Century Baseball Speaker Series from 8:00-9:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, November 8. Our guest speaker is Jack Bales, who will present on “Beer Beats Them: The Chicago White Stockings 1886 Season and the End of a Base Ball Dynasty.” Click here to register in advance for this Zoom meeting. For more information or to watch replays of past presentations from the 19th Century Speaker Series, click here.
Video Replays: This week, we heard from Justin Mckinney (Baseball’s Union Association). Click here to view video replays of virtual SABR events.

Here are some more upcoming virtual events all members can attend online; check the Events Calendar for complete details:

November 5: Talkin’ Baseball: Dan Joseph (9:00 a.m. EDT)
November 6: Oklahoma Chapter meeting with Jesse Asbury and Howard Johnson (2:00 p.m. CST)
November 8: Gardner-Waterman Vermont Chapter meeting with Darrel Chaney (7:00 p.m. EST)
November 8: 19th Century Speaker Series: Jack Bales (8:00 p.m. EST)
November 9: Central Florida Chapter meeting (7:00 p.m. EST)
November 9: Roush-Lopez Gulf Coast (FL) Chapter meeting (8:00 p.m. EST)
November 10: Baseball Think Factory meeting (8:30 p.m. EST)

In addition, the following events will be held in person:

November 5: Halsey Hall Chapter fall meeting (Minneapolis, MN)
November 5: Maddux Bros.-Las Vegas Chapter meeting (Las Vegas, NV)
November 5: Pacific Northwest Chapter meeting (Portland, OR)
November 5: Baseball Reliquary: Shrine of the Eternals Induction Ceremony (Los Angeles, CA)
November 12: SABR 19th Century Interdisciplinary Symposium (Providence, RI)
November 12: Ken Keltner Chapter meeting (Milwaukee, WI)
November 12: Magnolia Chapter: Baseball Cemetery Tour (Atlanta, GA)
November 12: Phil S. Dixon author event (Tacoma, WA)
November 12: Joseph Wancho/Vince Guerrieri author event (Cleveland, OH)
November 12-13: Canadian Baseball History Conference (Windsor, ON)

Find more upcoming SABR meetings on our Events Calendar page.

5 new biographies posted at SABR BioProject

Five new biographies were posted this week as part of the SABR Baseball Biography Project:

John Holland, by Steve Dunn
Nate Minchey, by Bill Nowlin
Ray Mueller, by Mark Schremmer
Ray Murray, by Malcolm Allen
Bobby Young, by Malcolm Allen

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

Find any SABR biography: You can visit sabr.org/bioproject to search for any player — or manager, executive, scout, spouse, broadcaster, or umpire — who appears in the SABR BioProject. In addition, we have pages for Ballparks, Broadcasters, Executives, Games, Managers, Scouts, Spouses, Umpires, Writers, people who were Famous Outside Baseball, and a lot more.

Read SABR biographies from Dominicans in the Major Leagues online

Earlier this year, SABR published Dominicans in the Major Leagues, edited by Bill Nowlin and Julio M. Rodriguez, a SABR Digital Library book (available in English and Spanish) celebrating the stories of the island nation’s baseball greats, including Juan Marichal, Pedro Martínez, Vladimir Guerrero, David Ortiz, Felipe, Jesús, and Matty Alou, Sammy Sosa, Raul Mondesí, and Fernando Tatís.

All of the biographies from that book can now be read online at the SABR BioProject.

Click here to download the free e-book edition or save 50% off the purchase of the paperback edition of Dominicans in the Major Leagues.

10 new stories published at the SABR Games Project

Ten new game stories were posted this week as part of the SABR Games Project:

August 8, 1889: Giants lose uniforms and game as Jack Glasscock hits for only cycle in Hoosiers history, by Mike Huber
September 28, 1919: Giants and Phillies record 51 outs in 51 minutes, the fastest game in major-league history, by Larry DeFillipo
June 15, 1950: Rutgers’ late rally defeats defending champion Texas in College World Series opener, by Steven C. Weiner
August 24, 1969: Juan Marichal holds off Expos in front of distinguished guest Lester Pearson, by Kurt Blumenau
June 21, 1970: Detroit’s César Gutiérrez becomes first AL/NL batter to go 7-for-7 in 20th century, by Gary Belleville
July 7, 1976: Red Sox force extra innings, but Chicago wins in the 10th, by Paul White
July 5, 1991: Cubs’ Frank Castillo pitches complete game against Cardinals for first major-league victory, by Madison McEntire
May 20, 1998: Mike Piazza plays his first Marlins home game with little fanfare, by Dan Cichalski
April 16, 2004: Wakefield, Red Sox beat Yankees in first matchup of season, by Bill Nowlin
March 21, 2019: Ichiro comes home to Japan to say goodbye, by Shane Barclay (first-time author)

In addition, the following stories from SABR’s Baseball’s Greatest Comeback Games (2021), edited by Bill Nowlin, have also been posted online:

May 27, 1933: Yankees score 12 runs in eighth for big comeback win, by Alan Raylesberg
June 11, 1933: Pirates score 10 in ninth to beat the Cardinals, by Gregory H. Wolf
June 29, 1952: Cubs’ ninth-inning comeback spoils Bubba Church’s outing, by Richard Cuicchi
May 8, 1958: Smoky Burgess homer caps 8-run ninth for Cincinnati Redlegs, by Russell Lake
July 27, 1975: Al Bumbry breaks 0-for-23 skid with rare homer in Orioles’ comeback, by Laura H. Peebles
August 29, 1986: Angels stun Tigers, 13-12, with ninth-inning comeback, by Ralph Caola
August 21, 1990: Phillies score 9 in ninth against Dodgers, overcoming a 10-run deficit, by Steven Glassman
May 10, 1994: Braves beat Phillies in 15th inning on Mike Stanton’s walk-off bunt, by Steven Glassman
August 26, 1998: Marlins shock Cardinals with four ninth-inning home runs, by Russell Lake
August 31, 1999: Cleveland rallies from 8 runs down in eighth inning to beat Angels, by William Grmek (first-time author)
May 25, 2009: Cleveland battles back from 10-run deficit to defeat Rays, by Joseph Wancho
April 21, 2012: Yankees rally from 9 runs down to blow out Red Sox, by Peter Seidel

New Games Project stories can be found 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.
Social media: Follow the SABR Games Project on Twitter or Facebook to keep up with new stories and updates.

SABRcast with Rob Neyer: Listen to an interview with author Joe Sheehan

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 #186 on Monday, October 31 featured Joe Sheehan, a founding member of Baseball Prospectus who has been a contributor to The Athletic, FanGraphs, Sports Illustrated, Baseball America, and many other publications. He publishes the popular daily subscription Joe Sheehan Baseball Newsletter and has written extensively about baseball for the last 25 years. Joe was also a guest for SABRcast #132 in October 2021.

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

Subscribe to SABRcast on your favorite podcast networks, including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, or Stitcher, and listen to each episode as soon as it’s released on Mondays. To learn more, visit SABR.org/sabrcast.

Listen to archives of Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM

During the MLB postseason, you can listen to archives of Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM, a radio show hosted by former SABR Board President Vince Gennaro, on-demand on the SiriusXM Internet Radio app.

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.

Friends of SABR: October 2022

Here is a list of SABR supporters for the month of October 2022:

NAME		NAME
Ken Aber		Dennis McDonald
Mark Armour		Thomas McGrath
Perry Barber		Linda McLeland
Stephen Barnes		Thomas Merrick
Jake Bell		Steve Montbriand
John Beyers		Roderic Nelson
Steven Boas		Andrew North
D. Bruce Brown		Bill Nowlin
Steven Cahn		Robert Osman
Ken Carrano		Tim Otto
Jeff Carter		Fred Owens
Kevin Charlton		Prisco Panza
Irwin Chusid		Virgilio Partida
Karl Cicitto		David Pearson
Vincent Comparato		Laura Peebles
Peter Cottrell		Gregg Pericich
Richard Cuicchi		John Rall
Dennis Degenhardt		Patrick Ray
Bob Dorrill		CJ Remmel
Helen Edwards		Michael Rosenwasser
Steven Elsberry		Charles Roussel
Jonathan Epstein		Bob Russon
Barbara Erion		Neal Sarswat
Daniel Evans		Matthew Schaedler
Jan Finkel		Michael Schell
Steven Finkelstein		Jason Scheller
Diane Firstman		Douglas Schoppert
Adam Foldes		Jeff Self
Don Gomes		Rob Sheinkopf
John Green		William Shkurti
Robert Hagerman		Richard Smiley
Tom Hall		Mike Sparks
Mike Haupert		Maxine Stansell
Leslie Heaphy		Thomas Stone
Tim Herlich		Wesley Story
Lon Hildreth		Andrew Strnad
Aaron Hill		William Talbot
Rockwell Hoffman		Tim Tassler
Mark Hoose		Joseph Thompson
Matt Hudson		Don Thompson
David Hughes		Neal Traven
Jay Hurd		Raymond Troiano
Donald Jensen		David Vaught
Joe Leisek		Joseph Wancho
Len Levin		Thomas Watson
Henry Levy		Mike Webber
Walter Long		Steve West
William Macht		Beach Wires
Peter Mancuso		Gary Wolcott
Rick McAuliffe		Jeffrey Wood
Mike McCann		Don Zminda
Larry McCray

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.

ICYMI: Highlights from last week’s 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: SABR.org/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
Dave Anderson	St. Paul, MN	Clifford Miller	Austin, MN
Mark Cohen	Woodstock, VT	Jason Palmateer	Catonsville, MD
Tom Hall	Repulse Bay, HKG	Prisco Panza	Milford, CT
Aiden Kim	Flushing, NY	Shane Regel	Pittsburgh, PA
Justin Krasnoff	Ann Arbor, MI	Robert Schon	Tucson, AZ
Matthew McArthur	Fort Worth, TX	Joe Swartz	Evanston, IL
George McGinn	Venice, FL	Michael Wallace	St. Cloud, MN

Research Committee news

Here are the new research committee updates this week:

Pictorial History: Check out the Pictorial History Committee’s new website at SABRPictorial.com. Any SABR member who is interested in writing an article about a baseball photograph or moving image, please contact Cary Smith.

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

Regional Chapter news

There are no new regional chapter and chartered community updates this week.

Click here for more information on SABR regional chapters. Click here to learn more about SABR chartered communities.

Around the Web

Here are some recent articles published by and about SABR members:

Derrick Goold: Astros’ Cristian Javier rides ‘invisible fastball’ to no-hit history for all to see (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Jayson Stark: Weird & Wild: Unpacking The Cristian Javier Game (The Athletic)
Sarah Langs: Incredible facts and stats about the Astros’ Game 4 no-hitter (MLB.com)
Stephanie Apstein: Astros’ Backup Backstop Earns an Outsized Piece of No-Hit History (Sports Illustrated)
Jay Jaffe: No-Hitters Are Great, but the Long Ball Still Wins in October (FanGraphs)
Tyler Kepner: From Sebring to Bohm, a History of 1,000 World Series Homers (New York Times)
Clinton Yates: Dusty Baker’s baseball life has made him a World Series protagonist (Andscape)
Ken Rosenthal: Was Astros’ Lance McCullers Jr. tipping pitches? (The Athletic)
Hannah Keyser: ‘I was gonna run through a wall’: How two miraculous Astros catches finally gave Justin Verlander his first World Series win (Yahoo! Sports)
Emma Baccellieri: Homers, Handshakes and Hoskins: The Long Road to the World Series (Sports Illustrated)
Russell A. Carleton: Why Aren’t There Any African-American Players in the World Series? (Baseball Prospectus)
Rob Mains: The State of the Quality Start in 2022 (Baseball Prospectus)
David Laurila: Craig Lefferts Has a Place in World Series History (FanGraphs)
Mark Simon: 2022 Home Run Robbery Leaders (ACTA Sports)
James Walker: The first televised World Series spurred America’s television boom, 75 years ago (The Conversation)
Nick Groke: As athletes become the face of legal betting, baseball enters ‘delicate and dangerous world’ (The Athletic)
Gene Sapakoff: Forgotten Negro Leagues star Chino Smith and the case for SC honors (Charleston Post and Courier)
Janet Nguyen: Why do baseball games have such weird start times? (NPR Marketplace)
M. Shawn Hennessy: Wartime Baseball on Paper: Servicemen’s World Series Programs and Scorecards (Chevrons and Diamonds)
Andy Terrick: My Favorite (Oldest) Marker: Dreyfuss Monument at PNC Park (SABRLandmarks.com)

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.

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