Watch SABR panels at the 2015 All-Star FanFest in Cincinnati

SABR was in Cincinnati for the 2015 MLB All-Star FanFest!

SABR members participated in a variety of panels throughout All-Star Weekend at the MLB.com stage. To learn more about the All-Star FanFest, July 10-14, 2015, at the Duke Energy Convention Center (525 Elm Street Cincinnati, OH 45202), click here.

Click on the link below to watch the panels online:

Origins of the Professional Game Panel
12:00-12:30 p.m., Saturday, July 11

  • Greg Rhodes: Cincinnati Reds team historian, former Executive Director of the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, SABR member
  • John Erardi: Former sports columnist and reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer and co-author of four books on the Cincinnati Reds
  • Moderator: John Thorn: Official Historian for Major League Baseball, longtime SABR member, and noted author and editor

Link to video: http://m.mlb.com/video/v251473683


Kids Baseball Panel
2:00-2:30 p.m., Sunday, July 12

  • Panelists include: Max Mannis, Lawna Ferrell, Brody Huffman, and Stephen “Reece” Wahoff
  • Moderator: Leslie Heaphy: SABR Director, Women in Baseball Committee Co-Chair, Negro Leagues historian, and Associate Professor of History and Honors Program Coordinator at Kent State University

Link to video: http://m.mlb.com/video/v255560783


Reds Franchise Four Panel
2:00-2:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 14

  • Mike Ferrin: MLB Network Radio host on SiriusXM since 2007; formerly an anchor/producer at WGN Radio in Chicago
  • Hal McCoy: J.G. Taylor Spink Award recipient (2002); longtime Cincinnati Reds beat writer with the Dayton Daily News and Fox Sports Ohio
  • Moderator: Vince Gennaro: SABR President, director of Columbia University’s sports management graduate program, the author of Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball, and host of “By the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM” on Sunday nights

Link to video: http://m.mlb.com/video/v259973483


To learn more about the 2015 MLB All-Star FanFest, click here.

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Originally published: July 8, 2015. Last Updated: July 8, 2015.