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SABR Bibliography Committee Research Guide No. 6: Baseball Figures in Dictionary of American Biography Editor’s note: This guide was first published by the SABR Bibliography Committee in 1987. To download the original in PDF form, click here. By Frank PhelpsJuly 1987 Dictionary of American Biography presents authoritative biographies of deceased notable Americans. The biographies usually […]

Here are the full SABR Defensive Index™ rankings, through games of July 12, 2015. Scroll down to see AL and NL overall leaders, or click a link below to see SDI leaders as ranked by position: AL:  P   C   1B   2B   3B   SS   LF   CF   RF  NL:  P   […]

Here are the SABR Defensive Index™ rankings through games of August 27, 2017. For the fifth consecutive season, the SDI will be used to help select the winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award and Rawlings Platinum Glove Award™, presented by SABR. The SABR Defensive Index accounts for approximately 25 percent of the Rawlings Gold […]

Here are the final SABR Defensive Index™ rankings for the 2017 season among positional qualifiers for the Rawlings Gold Glove Award. Related link: Vote now for the 2017 Rawlings Platinum Glove Award, presented by SABR For the fifth consecutive season, the SDI was used to help select the winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award […]

Here are the SABR Defensive Index™ rankings through games of July 15, 2018. For the sixth consecutive season, the SDI will be used to help select the winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award and Rawlings Platinum Glove Award™, presented by SABR. The SABR Defensive Index accounts for approximately 25 percent of the Rawlings Gold […]

Here are the full SABR Defensive Index™ rankings, through games of August 16, 2015. Scroll down to see AL and NL overall leaders, or click a link below to see SDI leaders as ranked by position: AL:  P   C   1B   2B   3B   SS   LF   CF   RF  NL:  P   […]

Here are the SABR Defensive Index™ rankings through games of August 18, 2019. For the seventh consecutive season, the SDI will be used to help select the winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award and Rawlings Platinum Glove Award™, presented by SABR. The SABR Defensive Index accounts for approximately 25 percent of the Rawlings Gold […]

Histories of the Philadelphia Phillies portray the club’s admission to the National League (NL) as a straightforward and swift process. Early in 1883, League president Abraham G. Mills informed former star player and old friend Alfred J. Reach that the Worcester franchise was moving to Philadelphia. Mills asked Reach — now a successful business entrepreneur […]

The SABR-Quebec Chapter met on April 29, 2017 at Madison’s Restaurant, near Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, for its Spring meeting. Two of our members made presentations on the development on baseball in outlying regions of Quebec starting in the late 19th Century: our chapter’s president, Patrick Carpentier, talked about the Laurentians, and Alain Dumas about the […]

The SABR-Quebec Chapter held its first in-person meeting since January 2020 with a visit to the Fernand-Bédard Museum in Trois-Rivières on August 20, 2023. We also renewed with one of our traditions by taking this opportunity to attend a local game, in this case the Trois-Rivières Aigles, and were even lucky enough to see a […]