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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 […]

The SABR Quebec Chapter held a virtual meeting on November 18, 2023 featuring guest speaker Danny Gallagher. A well-known sports journalist in Quebec, Danny is the author of a number of books on the Montreal Expos, his next one scheduled to come out in February 2024. That will make it five books in five years. […]

Paying scant attention to ongoing hockey and basketball playoffs, 34 SABR members and guests on June 10, 2023, basked in a day of baseball, baseball, baseball. They were at the Lajoie-Start Southern New England SABR Chapter’s annual spring meeting, and enjoyed the day listening to research presentations, hearing guest speakers, and talking about the diamond […]

A group of 19 attendees at the South Florida Chapter meeting on May 18, 2013, in Tamarac, Florida, enjoyed the day’s keynote speaker, Rolando Llanes, share his thoughts on his documentary, White Elephant: What Is There to Save, a poignant documentary that tells the history of Miami/Bobby Maduro Stadium. There were more than a few […]

Members and guests of the Buck O’Neil/North Florida Chapter gathered on September 11, 2024, at Madison Social in Tallahassee, Florida, for their monthly meeting. In attendance were: Matt Hudson, President Brent Kallestad, Co-Communications Director Renee Watters, Co-Communications Director Rick Swaine, Treasurer Chuck Rosciam Frank Alarcon Franklin Billingslea Fred Dunphy Glenn Robertson Jacob Lintner Jim Turner […]

On Saturday, April 14, 2018, members of the Sweet Lou Johnson Lexington Chapter gathered for our chapter’s second meeting at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library in Lexington, Kentucky. SABR member Ginger Baker welcomed baseball fans to the meeting and invited everyone to introduce themselves by sharing a memory of their favorite game. […]

On Saturday, April 28, 2018, the SABR Boston Chapter joined with Lasell College of Newton, Massachusetts, for a meeting of the minds. A very successful meeting, four Lasell students presented their work and the chapter contributed three speakers to the meeting agenda. All the Lasell students’ presentations were excellent: Bryce Furtado: “The Value of Today’s […]

SABR’s Larry Dierker Chapter held a hybrid meeting on Monday, February 21, 2022, with a total of 31 members in attendance. Click here to watch a replay of this meeting on YouTube: The leadoff speaker, Mike Capps, was introduced by Bill Brown, former Houston Astros broadcaster. After a career in news journalism, Mike has served […]

Larry Dierker Chapter meeting recap August 28, 2023 A recording of the August 28, 2023, chapter meeting can be found on the chapter’s YouTube page here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk05iRYhP6E Early in August, Tal Smith generously donated over sixteen boxes of books from his personal collection to the chapter.  Mike McCroskey brought two of the sixteen boxes to […]

On the evening of October 17, 2016, our Larry Dierker/Houston Chapter was privileged to honor fellow member and retiring Houston Astros broadcaster, the extraordinary Bill Brown. Bill has long been an active member of the chapter and a true friend to us all. We are thankful and thrilled that, even in retirement, Bill will continue […]