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Just in time for the holidays, twenty-six (26) members gathered in person and via Zoom for a Larry Dierker Chapter meeting on December 19, 2022, at the Spaghetti Western restaurant in Houston.  President Joe Thompson opened the meeting with Happy Holidays wishes for all and a special welcome to all the guests and first-meeting chapter […]

SABR member Bob Mayer recently sponsored an Old Timers Baseball Celebration on July 22, 2012, in Peekskill, New York. The activities were arranged, to both recognize and honor Minor League ballplayers who contributed to the popularity of our National Pastime in the years immediately following World War II, and to educate the public about baseball […]

Twenty-two hearty SABR members and friends of the SABR Larry Dierker Chapter braved a stormy night at the Spaghetti Western in Houston on Monday, September 18, 2017, to hear presentations about the Hall of Fame inductions in July, SABR 47, and then virtually travel to dozens of minor-league ballparks. Mike McCroskey started the HOF discussions […]

62 SABR members and friends were treated to a delightful afternoon and evening of baseball at Minute Maid Park for the Houston/Larry Dierker Chapter meeting on May 19, 2012, especially if you were an Astros fan and watched the home team come from behind to defeat the defending American League Champion Texas Rangers. The meeting […]

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, […]

Here are the SABR Defensive Index™ rankings through games of August 7, 2016. For the fourth 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 SABR Defensive Index™ rankings through games of July 10, 2016. For the fourth 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 SABR Defensive Index™ rankings through games of June 12, 2016. For the fourth 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 2016 season among positional qualifiers for the Rawlings Gold Glove Award. For the fourth consecutive season, the SDI was 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 […]

The McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award honors the authors of the best articles on baseball history or biography completed or published during the preceding calendar year. This award was previously named the Macmillan-SABR Baseball Research Award (1987-2000). It is presented each year at the SABR Convention to three individuals, groups or groups of individuals whose research […]