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Twins broadcaster Cory Provus was the featured speaker at the Halsey Hall Chapter fall meeting on November 2. Cory grew up as a Cubs fan outside Chicago and attended the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. His first job after college was in Blacksburg, Virginia, doing play-by-play for Virgina Tech and […]

On Saturday, June 9, the Connie Mack Chapter held their regional meeting in Trenton, New Jersey, at Mercer County Waterfront Park, home of the Trenton Thunder, the Double-A affiliate of the New York Yankees. Thirty-two SABR members and guests came from Delaware, New Jersey, New York and across Pennsylvania to enjoy a half-dozen research presentations, […]

Sixteen members and guests of the Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter gathered at The Original Crusoe’s Restaurant in South St. Louis on Monday, May 16, 2016. Chapter president Brian Flaspohler called the meeting to order and mentioned that so far he had only one confirmed research presentation for the Chapter Research Conference that will take place August […]

31 SABR members arrived at the Inn at the Ballpark on April 16, 2012, for a festive and informative monthly session with the Houston/Larry Dierker Chapter. Leading off was David Barron of the Houston Chronicle who had recently toured the Astrodome and reported on the significant deterioration if the facility and future prospects for the […]

Here are the SABR Bookshelf listings for Fall 2022. To get your NEW book listed on The SABR Bookshelf, send an e-book file in PDF, EPUB or MOBI format to jpomrenke@sabr.org. To ensure a listing in The Baseball Index, SABR’s online catalog of baseball research materials at www.baseballindex.org, please make sure a review copy is […]

A lifelong Pirates fan, Gregory H. Wolf was born in Pittsburgh, but now resides in the Chicagoland area with his wife, Margaret, while their daughter, Gabriela, studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. A Professor of German and holder of the Dennis and Jean Bauman endowed chair of the Humanities at North Central College […]

Courtney Michelle Smith is a professor and chair of the history and political science department at Cabrini University in Radnor, Pennsylvania. She is a lifelong fan of the Philadelphia Phillies and the rest of Philadelphia’s sports teams. She is the author of Ed Bolden and Black Baseball in Philadelphia and Jackie Robinson: A Life in […]

The McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award honors the authors of the best articles on baseball history or biography completed or published during the preceding calendar year. This award was previously named the Macmillan-SABR Baseball Research Award (1987-2000). It is presented each year at the SABR Convention to three individuals, groups or groups of individuals whose research […]

The Philadelphia Phillies had hoped to play their 1970 season at the new Veterans Stadium, but delays in construction meant the 1970 season would at least begin at Connie Mack Stadium. Built in 1909 and originally called Shibe Park, Connie Mack Stadium was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics until 1954 and the Phillies beginning […]

When would-be saboteurs tried to pull distractions on Bob Gibson, it never seemed to diminish his work. Rather, it merely poked the bear. Before pitching the seventh game of the 1967 World Series in Boston, Gibson was disturbed in his hotel room three times in the middle of the night by “mistaken” wake-up calls. And […]