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The SABR-Quebec Chapter held its winter meeting virtually on March 5, 2022. It was a very special occasion in our chapter’s history, as member Jean Allard, who was making a presentation on the history of baseball at the Olympics, convened four former Olympians who shared their memories with us: Marc Griffin, Éric Cyr, Phil Devey […]

Sixteen members and guests of the Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter gathered at The Original Crusoe’s Restaurant in South St. Louis on Monday, December 14, 2015. Chapter president Brian Flaspohler called the meeting to order. Barbara Sheinbein announced that she had brought, for the second time in recent months, several baseball books and publications from her personal library, […]

The SABR-Quebec Chapter met for its fall meeting on November 7, 2015 in a room provided by the Quebec Amateur Baseball Federation (Baseball Quebec), close to their offices in Olympic Stadium. The meeting was a total success. Attracting the highest number of members since July, 2011, our fall meeting was one for the ages. With […]

When Wally Moon stepped to the plate in his rookie year for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1954, he knew he was the only major league player to have earned both a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master’s Degree. Using this knowledge and his tremendous desire to succeed, Wally went on to be Rookie […]

The SABR-Quebec Chapter held a virtual meeting on September 28, 2024 with Chapter members Patrick Carpentier and Christian Trudeau making a joint presentation entitled: “Léo Dandurand, French-Canadian nationalism and baseball”. Click here to watch the replay on YouTube. The main protagonist, Léo Dandurand, was born in 1884 in Illinois in a French-Canadian family and went […]

SABR Bibliography Committee Research Guide No. 1: Baseball Figures in Current Biography 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 Joseph Lawler June 1986 Current Biography is a reference service of the H. W. Wilson Company of New York, publishers […]

From Cody Stavenhagen at The Athletic on December 5, 2019: The stories are all there, tucked away in plastic bins. They rest inside Jeffrey Whitaker’s home in Martinsville, Virginia. The bins are full of baseballs, and every one has an autograph and a date. Each ball has 108 red stitches and weighs about 5 ounces. […]

From Theresa Vargas at the Washington Post on April 5, 2017, with mention of SABR Vice President Leslie Heaphy: There she stands on the pitching mound. The black-and-white video footage is grainy, but clear enough to see Jackie Mitchell’s hat is tilted just slightly to the right. In front of her, on home plate, stands […]

From Rick Hummel at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on July 17, 2019: Ernie Broglio tied for the National League lead in victories in 1960 when he won 21 for the Cardinals in his second big-league season. The righthander also won 18 for the 1963 Cardinals team which challenged for, but fell short of, the National […]

From SABR member Graham Womack at The Sporting News on February 14, 2017: Hall of Fame committees seemingly exist for candidates like Lou Whitaker. Whitaker, who played from 1977 to 1995 with the Detroit Tigers, ranks among the best second basemen in baseball history by various sabermetrics — sixth by Wins Above Replacement, seventh by […]