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From Howard Herman at the Berkshire Eagle on April 23, 2019: Dan Duquette says not having a team to work for this baseball season has been relaxing. But the Dalton native, whose tenure as the executive vice president of baseball operations for the Baltimore Orioles ended at the end of the 2018 season, said that […]

By Karl Cicitto Twenty-four people attended the April 25, 2022, general meeting of the SABR Rabbit Maranville Chapter at Springfield College where they heard presentations about Les Mann, Dick Stuart, Charlie Zink and Doug Clark. President Jim Winston welcomed all to the chapter’s first meeting in the spacious and comfy Dodge Room in the Campus […]

Twenty-two people attended the April 22, 2013, monthly roundtable of the Bob Broeg St. Louis SABR Chapter. The meeting was held at the regular location, The Original Crusoe’s in South St. Louis. Jim Rygelski gave a presentation on “Significant Things About the 1928 Cardinals.” It wasn’t a day-by-day recounting of the season but a listing […]

The Connecticut Smoky Joe Wood Chapter held a small but vibrant meeting on Oct. 17 at Middlesex Community College. Highlights: PAUL MOEHRINGER led off with a presentation of his Pyramid Rating System. It’s an iterative system, wherein he ranks each season’s players using a standard deviation measure, eliminates the extreme value, reruns the ranking process, […]

From SABR member Mark Tomasik at RetroSimba on August 31, 2017: Heading into the final month of the season in pursuit of a second consecutive National League pennant, the Cardinals sought an upgrade to their infield defense. They took a chance on a light-hitting shortstop with a history of alcohol problems. Rabbit Maranville fielded with flair. […]

We are pleased to offer the second title in the SABR Digital Library as a free member download: Run, Rabbit, Run: The Hilarious and Mostly True Tales of Rabbit Maranville By Walter “Rabbit” Maranville Introduction by Harold Seymour, Ph.D.; afterword by Bob Carroll ISBN (e-book): 978-1-933599-27-4, $5.99 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-933599-26-7, $9.95 96 pages, 8.5” x […]

Babe Ruth meets Yale baseball player George H.W. Bush in 1948. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)   George Herbert Walker Bush began the first year of his term as the 41st President of the United States of America on January 20, 1989. Then, just seventy-three days later (on April 3, 1989), he carried out […]

The Callaghan sisters, Helen (left) and Margaret. (British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame)   The young women gathered on the grass in Chicago shagged flies and fielded grounders. They played scrub games under the watchful eyes of coaches. Even the practice games were not without incident, as Gladys “Terrie” Davis, a batting star in Toronto’s […]

Cover of the May 1927 issue of Yakyukai depicting O’Neal Pullen and Shinji Hamazaki (Rob Fitts Collection)   Kazuo Sayama, baseball historian, author, and member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (enshrined in 2021), states with great passion and conviction that had it not been for the tours of the Negro Leagues’ all-star Philadelphia […]