This Week in SABR: October 24, 2025
Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, October 24, 2025.
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Submit your presentation abstract for 2026 SABR Analytics Conference
Double your donation’s impact alongside Baseball-Reference.com founder Sean Forman
Submit new project proposals to SABR Editorial Board by November 1
1 week left to submit abstracts for 2026 SABR 19th Century Base Ball Conference
SABR Digital Library: Native American Major Leaguers
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Early registration now open for 2026 SABR Analytics Conference
Early registration is now open for the SABR Analytics Conference, which will be held in person from February 27-March 1, 2026, 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!
- Registration: Click here to register for the 2026 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. Students should email Scott Carter with a photo of their student ID to receive the discounted registration link.
- 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. Both include access to General Session panels and presentations on Friday, February 27 through Sunday, March 1, and a student-only virtual session on Thursday, February 26. All student registrations also include a one-year SABR membership ($25 value) and a complimentary Rapsodo Certified Course ($395 value). SABR membership will be fulfilled after event sign-up and access to Rapsodo course will be delivered after the conference.
- Research Presentations, presented by Teamworks Intelligence: Present your baseball research at the 2026 SABR Analytics Conference. Deadline to submit an abstract: November 21, 2025.
- Diamond Dollars Case Competition: Click here to register your team for the 2026 Diamond Dollars Case Competition. Registration is $1,750 per team, which includes admission to all SABR Analytics Conference sessions and a one-year SABR membership for each participant. Chaperones and advisors looking to attend the conference should register themselves separately here.
- Yoseloff Scholarship: Students, apply now for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend the 2026 SABR Analytics Conference. Deadline: December 19, 2025.
- Research Awards: We’re seeking nominations for the 2026 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards. Deadline: December 19, 2025.
- Certification Courses: The first three courses in the online, on-demand SABR Analytics Certification program, including the newest offering Level Three – Introduction to Baseball Programming, are available now. Click here to learn more or to sign up.
Submit your presentation abstract for 2026 SABR Analytics Conference
SABR is excited to announce the call for presentations, presented by Teamworks Intelligence, for the SABR Analytics Conference, which will be held on February 27-March 1, 2026, 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-presentations@sabr.org. Please clearly indicate whether you are submitting for the general track or for the student track of presentations. The submission deadline for all 2026 SABR Analytics Conference presentation abstracts is 11:59 p.m. MST on November 21, 2025.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Apply now for the 2026 Sarah Langs Women in Baseball Analytics Scholarship
SABR welcomes new applications for the Sarah Langs Women in Baseball Analytics Scholarship in 2026. Awarded annually to four recipients, the scholarship will provide meaningful professional development and networking opportunities for female students or young professionals pursuing a career in baseball analytics and data science.
Recipients will receive: registration for the SABR Analytics Conference, including hotel accommodations and travel stipend; registration for all courses in the SABR Analytics Certification program; one-year SABR membership, which includes access to quarterly SABR Scholar Session virtual networking events.
All applications must be postmarked or emailed to scarter@sabr.org by December 19, 2025.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Double your donation’s impact alongside Baseball-Reference.com founder Sean Forman
SABR continues toward our vision of becoming the essential community for the world of baseball, and it is gifts from members like you who sustain our organization, allowing us to produce and promote wonderful baseball research and programming that reaches people everywhere. As 2025 comes to a close, we need your support to Bring It Home and ensure this vision turns into a reality.
Thanks to one generous member, you now have the opportunity to double the impact of your donation. Baseball-Reference founder Sean Forman is a Chadwick Award Winner and was honored in 2020 with the SABR Analytics Conference Lifetime Achievement Award. During this important campaign, Sean’s company will match the first $7,500 in contributions made in response to this matching opportunity.
Visit SABR.org/donate/2025 to learn more.
Submit new project proposals to SABR Editorial Board by November 1
SABR’s Editorial Board welcomes new project proposals from members to be considered for publication through the Digital Library, SABR.org, or any other multimedia formats. We strongly encourage new proposals that involve collaboration between SABR research committees and/or chapters, and web-based projects with an eye toward enhanced multimedia presentation.
- Click here to submit a SABR project proposal
Next deadline: November 1, 2025 (for publication in early 2027 or 2028)
SABR seeks to publish 2-4 web-based multimedia projects and 6-8 books per year. Book projects should be of a scope that can fit in a single volume, typically between 100,000 and 200,000 total words.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
SABR Digital Library: Native American Major Leaguers
Add a new baseball book to your collection from the SABR Digital Library:
Native American Major Leaguers
Edited by Rob Daugherty and Bill Nowlin
Associate editors: Len Levin and Carl Riechers
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-960819-48-2, $9.99
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-960819-49-9, $34.95
8.5″ x 11″, 316 pages
Native American Major Leaguers presents biographies of over 40 players who appeared in the major leagues, including both those who are well remembered today for their Native heritage such as Jacoby Ellsbury, Charles Bender, Louis Sockalexis, and Jim Thorpe, and those you might not realize, such as Buck Martinez and Kyle Lohse. Then there are those who deserve to be remembered, like Jim Bluejacket and Ike Kahdot, and even a player from the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, Canadian Yolande Teillet, whose mother was Métis.
The book also includes more than a dozen essays on baseball and Native and Indigenous communities, including historical topics such as the legacy of Indian boarding schools, American Indian barnstorming teams, and the translation of baseball rules into Mi’kmaq, as well as recent issues like the changing of Cleveland’s team name and the controversy over the Atlanta Braves’ “Tomahawk Chop.”
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Call for papers: 2026 SABR Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference
All SABR members are invited and encouraged to submit a Research Presentation Proposal Abstract on any topic of 19th-century baseball for the 2026 Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. The 17th annual Ivor-Campbell Conference is scheduled for April 24-25, 2026. The deadline for proposal Abstracts is October 31, 2025.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Learn more about new SABR Institutional Memberships
A SABR Institutional Membership is the perfect way to connect your group with baseball’s rich history. Whether you are supporting historical or analytical researchers or engaging with baseball fans in your community, SABR provides the network, tools, and expertise to enhance your offerings.
A SABR Institutional Membership is ideal for libraries, museums, and historical societies; high schools; and higher education departments, especially History, American Studies, and Sports Analytics programs.
Institutional Members receive unlimited access to SABR’s extensive collection of digital publications; exclusive research resources, including access to historical newspaper databases; engagement opportunities with SABR experts and a network of baseball historians and analysts.
To learn more, contact Paul J. Zwirecki for details on membership options and enrollment.
Find new updates to the SABR Research Collection below, including the Baseball Biography Project, Games Project, and Oral History Collection.
2 new stories published at SABR BioProject
- Bartolo Colón, by Madison McEntire
- Ollie Pickering, by Terry Bohn
Visit SABR.org/bioproject to learn more about the SABR Biography Project or to get involved.
1 new story published at SABR Games Project
Visit SABR.org/gamesproject to learn more about the SABR Games Project or to get involved.
We Are, We Can, We Will:
The 1992 World Champion Toronto Blue Jays
Edited by Adrian Fung and Bill Nowlin
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:
- Save the date! SABR 54 will be in Cleveland in 2026
- 2025 Rawlings Gold Glove Award finalists announced
- SABR welcomes new chapter in China
- Check out highlights, stories, and photos from SABR 53 in Texas
- Negro Leagues plays added to SABR Triple Plays Database
- Check out highlights, photos from Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference in Louisville
- Watch highlights from 2025 SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference
- Tom Hufford selected as 2025 Bob Davids Award winner
- Read articles from The National Pastime: Baseball in Texas and Beyond
- Lahman Database files now available for download
- View a collection of nearly 100,000 player surveys in the new Weiss Baseball Questionnaires collection
- SABR Digital Library: Stan Musial
- Learn more about recipients of SABR Local Grants in 2025
- Hundreds of ProQuest US newspapers added to SABR Research Resources
- Find complete collection of SABR-Rucker Archive baseball images online
- Historical Black Newspapers Collection added to SABR Research Resources
- Get a gift for baseball fan in your life with the SABR Store @ CafePress
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 | ||
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| Stacy China | Hillside, NJ | Claudia Rodriguez | Riverside, CA | ||
| Isaac Lageschulte | Evanston, IL | Wayne Streator | Canonsburg, PA | ||
| Jeff Mann | Summerville, SC | Hung-Yi Steven Tsai | Toronto, ON | ||
| Wesley Moran | Toronto, ON | Sachin Vacin | Fremont, CA | ||
| Theodore Reich | Strongsville, PA |
- Events Calendar: Find details of all upcoming SABR events.
- Video Replays: This week, we heard from Jack Bales (“Violet Popovich and the Chicago Cub Shot For Love”); Keith Avallone (History Maker Baseball); Jerry Izenberg (Damn You, Josh Gibson: A Ghost Story); Will Bardenwerper (Homestand); and Mike Walsh (“The Original Wheeze Kids: Phillies vs. Giants, July 1966”). Click here to view video replays of virtual SABR events.
Upcoming Virtual Meetings
- October 25: Schott-Pelican (LA) Chapter meeting with Louis Schiff and Steve Lane (10:00 a.m. CDT)
- October 25: Smoky Joe Wood (CT) Chapter meeting with David Gordon and Paul Hensler (12:00 p.m. EDT)
- October 25: Quebec Chapter meeting with Robert Elias (1:00 p.m. EDT)
- October 26: Baltimore Babe Ruth (MD) Chapter meeting with Robert Elias (7:00 p.m. EDT)
- October 26: Joint AL Central Chapter postseason meeting (8:00 p.m. EDT)
- October 27: Bob Broeg St. Louis (MO) Chapter meeting with Clem Hamilton (6:00 p.m. CDT)
- October 27: Clyde Sukeforth (NH/ME) Chapter meeting with Maxwell Kates (7:00 p.m. EDT)
- October 29: Casey Stengel (NYC) Chapter meeting with Mark Stein (7:00 p.m. EDT)
- November 1: Women in Baseball Diamond Stories: Naomi Ryan (10:00 a.m. EDT)
- November 2: Oklahoma Chapter meeting (2:00 p.m. CDT)
Upcoming In-Person Meetings
- October 24: Juan Marichal Chapter meeting (Santo Domingo, DOM)
- October 25: Rabbit Maranville Chapter meeting (Springfield, MA)
- October 25: Boston Chapter ballgame/meet-up (Boston, MA)
- October 25: Halsey Hall Chapter fall meeting (Minneapolis, MN)
- October 25: Central Florida Chapter meeting (Ponce Inlet, FL)
- October 25: Rogers Hornsby Chapter World Series watch party (Austin, TX)
- October 25: Halsey Hall Chapter World Series watch party (Minneapolis, MN)
- October 26: Elysian Fields Chapter film screening (Little Falls, NJ)
- October 27: Luke Easter Chapter World Series watch party (Rochester, NY)
- October 28: Hank Gowdy Columbus Chapter World Series watch party (Columbus, OH)
To add your SABR event to our calendar listings, please contact Jacob Pomrenke.
- Latino Baseball: Fall 2025 newsletter
Sign up for SABR research committee announcements at SABR.org/research/committees.
- Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter: Fall 2025 newsletter (Baltimore, MD)
- Pee Wee Reese Chapter: Fall 2025 newsletter (Louisville, KY)
- Ted Williams Chapter: October 2025 newsletter (San Diego, CA)
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:
- Sarah Langs: 13 reasons Shohei Ohtani had the greatest game ever (MLB.com)
- Mark Simon: 2025 Fielding Bible Award winners announced (Sports Info Solutions)
- Sweeny Murti: After decades of ‘watching somebody else eat a hot fudge sundae,’ Don Mattingly gets a taste at last (MLB.com)
- Susan H. Kamei: Baseball returns to a Japanese American detention camp after a historic ball field was restored (The Conversation)
- Davy Andrews: The Alarming Stillness of Shohei Ohtani (FanGraphs)
- J.J. Cooper: We’ve Never Seen A Shortstop Like Mookie Betts (Baseball America)
- Jay Jaffe: Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s Postseason for the Ages (FanGraphs)
- RJ McDaniel: Wearing the Hat (Baseball Prospectus)
- Jerry Brewer: Big Dumper, Sir Mix-a-Lot and how Seattle got back (Washington Post)
- Eric Nusbaum: A Beautiful, Heartbreaking Mariners Season (Seattle Met)
- Dan D’Addona: Shohei Otani, Martin Dihigo share similar baseball pitching, hitting legends (Holland Sentinel)
- Alex Speier: Are the Dodgers really ‘ruining baseball’ with all their success? (Boston Globe)
- Timothy Jackson: How Hard is October? (Baseball Prospectus)
- Michael Baumann: The Giants Are Circling the Most Interesting Managerial Hire in Decades (FanGraphs)
- Gary Belleville: Canadians in the Major-League Playoffs: The Ten Biggest Hits (Journal of Canadian Baseball)
- Matt Monagan: 50 years ago, Carlton Fisk (and a rat) changed how we watch baseball on TV (MLB.com)
- Daniel Johnson: Masanori Murakami relives pioneering, colorful baseball career (Sonoma Index-Tribune)
- Rob Mains: The Year in Advertising Patches (Baseball Prospectus)
- Randy Maniloff: Hitting the Books: Law school can be taught with just baseball cases (American Bar Association Journal)
- Keith O’Brien: Sports can’t survive prop bets (The Atlantic)
- Tim Hanlon: When Minor League Baseball Almost Went Bust with George Pawlush (Good Seats Still Available)
- Rich Tenorio: The forgotten story of the US soldiers who integrated baseball before Jackie Robinson (The Guardian)
- Lee Lowenfish: The Coming World Series Will Have To Be Great To Match The ALCS (LeeLowenfish.com)
- Dan Schlossberg: Serious Free Agent Defections Could Cripple Seattle Mariners (Forbes.com)
- Jeff Cohen/Len Aberman: Baseball and BBQ interview with Bryce Hensley (Baseball and BBQ)
- Satoshi Matsumiya and Yobun Shima: 1921 Vancouver Asahi’s Tour to Japan (SABR Asian Baseball)
- Taein Chun: The Uniform of Youth: The Baseball Jacket (SABR Asian Baseball)
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: October 24, 2025. Last Updated: October 24, 2025.