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From SABR member Tom Shieber at Baseball Researcher on March 24, 2014: A few months ago, I learned of the stunning archival holdings at the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections. Thanks to the invaluable help of Production Manager Ben Singleton, I had the chance to review some amazing baseball footage, part of the […]

Bruce Harris has been a SABR member since 2006. A New Yorker, he became a Cubs fan after seeing the Cubbie patch on the sleeve of Lou Brock’s 1964 Topps card. He still thinks about his beloved 1969 Cubs and wishes things had turned out differently.  

Ralph Berger (1928-2013) joined SABR in 2000 and contributed dozens of biographies to the SABR BioProject, including stories on Hall of Famers Luke Appling, Lou Boudreau, Jim Bunning and more. Ralph was a writer, poet, teacher, public administrator, an avid baseball historian, and a historian of the World Wars. He was a resident of Huntingdon […]

Steve Wulf is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. In a career that pre-dates the designated hitter, he has also written for Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, the Fort Lauderdale News and the Norwich (New York) Evening Sun. He and his wife, Jane Bachman Wulf, live in Larchmont, New York, where they raised […]

Steve J. Weiss is an attorney with Hertz Schram PC in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, past president of the Bloomfield Hills School Board, and a longtime Macabbi Youth Games basketball coach. He is the author of two published novels, The Farewell Principle and About Face. The year the Tigers last won the World Series, he was […]

David Crawford Jones is a former chairman of the Deadball Era Committee and the editor of SABR’s Deadball Stars of the American League, published by Potomac Books in 2006. With a master’s degree in U.S. History and a doctorate in African history, he has written extensively on the intersection of racism and popular culture. A […]

Gordon Janis is a first-time contributor to the BioProject. He remembers his childhood heartbreak when the Mets traded his idol Tom Seaver for a Farrah Fawcett poster, a pack of pop rocks, a bu alo nickel, and dryer lint. That stinging disappointment combined with his frequent attendance at Yankee Stadium with his season ticket-holding uncle […]

SABR Bibliography Committee Research Guide No. 3: Overview and Index to Features and Records in The Baseball Register 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 Bob McConnellDecember 1986 Baseball Register, an annual book published by The Sporting News […]

The South Florida Chapter held its annual Fall Meeting at their home base, the Tamarac Public Library Multi-Purpose Room, on October 6, 2012. The audience was regaled by our keynote speaker, Carol McKechnie-Montgomery, daughter of Hall of Fame manager Bill McKechnie. She shared some anecdotes from her recent book, “The Deacon’s Daughter”. Lou Hernandez presented […]

Sarah Langs (1993 – ) is an educator, a historian, a true fan of the game as she has launched her career as a baseball researcher at ESPN and Major League Baseball. Her trademark phrase, “Baseball is the best,” is an all-encompassing maxim highlighting every aspect of the game. ALS has robbed Sarah of her […]