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The Russell Gabay Award, established by SABR’s Elysian Fields Chapter and Goose Goslin Chapter in 2018, honors entities or persons who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to baseball in New Jersey.   Russell Gabay was a noted sports producer and a native of Springfield, New Jersey. He began his career in the late 1970s, producing for […]

On October 19, 2015, the Larry Dierker Chapter had a fine crowd of 34 members and friends who heard from variety of speakers thanks to Jim Kreuz. Highlights of the meeting were: The announcement that Peggy Dorrill had come closest to forecasting the number of wins the Astros would have in 2015. She projected 85 […]

The DFW Hall-Ruggles Chapter held its meeting on May 31 at the Legends Museum Auditorium at the Ballpark in Arlington. Don Welke, Senior Assistant to Rangers’ GM Jon Daniels, was the first guest. He is a baseball lifer at 68 and has been a moving force, behind the scenes, in the Rangers’ acquisition of the […]

On Monday, June 15, 2020, 45 members of Houston’s Larry Dierker Chapter joined in their third Zoom meeting. Chair Bob Dorrill noted that we have 14 new members and 25 of our members live outside of Texas. Credit for much of our member growth can be attributed to the social media presence developed by member […]

Eighteen members and guests of the Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter gathered at Lester’s Bar & Grill, located at 9906 Clayton Road on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Chapter president Brian Flaspohler called the meeting to order. Items noted in “Today in Baseball History”: 1882 – Ambidextrous pitcher Tony Mullane of Louisville pitched with both hands in a […]

The Robinson-Kell SABR chapter met Saturday, August 20, 2016, at the Central Arkansas Library at 12:00 p.m. There were 17 members present. The guest speaker was former major league pitcher and Texarkana, Arkansas, native Dustin Moseley who now owns and operates Proformance, a baseball training facility in Little Rock. He was accompanied by his wife […]

“With the bases full Foley caught the sphere fair on the end of his ash and away it went over the left field fence for a home run.”1 This first-inning grand slam on May 25, 1882, by Buffalo Bisons outfielder Charles “Curry” Foley sparked a 20–1 rout over the rival Cleveland Blues. Along the way, […]

Albert Spalding lived an extraordinary life as one of baseball’s most important figures. This article focuses on his San Diego years, during which he helped develop San Diego into the city it is today, as well as key connections in his early life that set up his grand finale. The Rockford Files Rockford, Illinois, is […]

The “Astros Better Halves” prepare to play their husbands under the Dome in the 1970s. (PHOTOS COURTESY OF HOUSTON ASTROS)   Although the earliest of American baseball clubs in the mid-1800s were organized as exclusively male social organizations, spectators were soon drawn to their games, and plenty of women were among them. The Knickerbocker Base […]

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 […]