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SABR Bibliography Committee Research Guide No. 2: Baseball Figures in Who’s Who in American Sports Editor’s note: This guide was first published by the SABR Bibliography Committee in 1986. To download the original in PDF form, click here. By Frank Phelps October 1986 Who’s Who in American Sports, edited and published by National Biographical Society, […]

SABR Bibliography Committee Research Guide No. 10: Baseball in History Journals (1980-88) Editor’s note: This guide was first published by the SABR Bibliography Committee in 1989. To download the original in PDF form, click here. By Jim SumnerApril 1989 This guide consists of all the articles I could find on baseball history published in history […]

SABR Bibliography Committee Research Guide No. 7: Overview and Pre-1948 Subject Player Index of “Who’s Who in Baseball Editor’s note: This guide was first published by the SABR Bibliography Committee in 1987. To download the original in PDF form, click here. By Frank Phelps July 1987 Baseball Magazine published this collection of players’ career records […]

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, […]

Buck O’Neil/North Florida Chapter members gathered in the conference room at Blu Halo for their monthly meeting on September 7, 2022, in Tallahassee, Florida. In attendance were: Matt Keelean, Chapter President Jim Wolf Kent Putnam Rick Swain Brent Kallestad Glenn Robertson Bruce Grant Fred Dunphy Chuck Rosciam Frank Alarcon Jim Turner Renee Watters Ben Gaddis […]

If you weren’t one of the 60-odd people at St. Philip’s Parish Center on Saturday, Noember 30 for the Lajoie-Start Southern New England Chapter meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, you missed a great meeting. All the speakers and presentations were top-notch. (I say 60-odd because we had 61 signups and there may have been a […]

The Forbes Field/Pittsburgh Chapter held its spring meeting at the Heinz History Center on Saturday, April 30. Twenty-seven members and guests attended and were entertained and informed during the following presentations: George Skornickel gave a presentation on Eddie Klep, who briefly played for the Negro Leagues’ Cleveland Buckeyes, and was known as the “White Jackie […]

SABR Larry Dierker Chapter meeting recapSeptember 10, 2018Spaghetti Western restaurant, 7:00 pm There were 18 members present for this month’s Larry Dierker Chapter meeting on a rainy night in Houston. Please take note of the next three months’ meeting dates as they are different: Monday, October 15, 7:00 p.m. at the Spaghetti Western on Shepard […]

More than 60 members and guests gathered at St. Philip’s Parish Center in Greenville, Rhode Island, on November 26, 2011, for the fall meeting of the Southern New England Lajoie-Start Chapter (I use the approximation because I saw some people there but didn’t see their names on the signup sheet). Dick Flavin entertained us with […]

Here are the SABR Bookshelf listings for Winter 2015. To get your NEW book listed on The SABR Bookshelf, make sure a review copy is sent to: The SABR Bookshelf, Society for American Baseball Research, 4455 E. Camelback Rd., Ste. D-140, Phoenix, AZ 85018. An e-book file will also suffice; please send the e-book in […]