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The SABR Quebec Chapter held its winter meeting on February 6, 2021 as part of SABR Day activities. By holding this meeting virtually and in English, we were able to be joined by a number of SABR members from across North America, including Bill Nowlin, one of SABR’s directors. You can watch a video replay […]

Larry Dierker SABR Chapter members: Our good friend Maxwell Kates from Toronto did an excellent job at our meeting on Monday, November 12, 2018, in front of 38 chapter members by first introducing us to his new SABR book, “Time for Expansion Baseball.” In fact this was the world premiere of the book (which will […]

SABR Bibliography Committee Research Guide No. 1: Baseball Figures in Current Biography 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 Joseph Lawler June 1986 Current Biography is a reference service of the H. W. Wilson Company of New York, publishers […]

SABR’s Century Research Committee, formed in 2020, provides a research hub for SABR research and activities to memorialize the anniversaries of important milestones in baseball history. Although the Century Committee is designed to primarily focus on 100th anniversary events, its work will encompass other significant anniversaries — e.g. 25th, 50th, 75th — as well, by […]

The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award honors those whose outstanding research projects completed during the preceding calendar year have significantly expanded our knowledge or understanding of baseball.  Eligible projects must be the product of original research or analysis and must significantly advance our knowledge of baseball. They must be characterized by factual accuracy and notable […]

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 […]

Bill Mortell has been a SABR member since 1977. For 35 years he worked for the U.S. Department of Defense, from which he retired in 1987. A Chicago native, he lived in various cities in Japan (Kyoto, Nara, and Tokyo area) for 13 years and once saw both Frank and Brooks Robinson homer in the […]

Here are the SABR Bookshelf listings for Spring 2019. To get your NEW book listed on The SABR Bookshelf, make sure a review copy is sent to: The SABR Bookshelf, Cronkite School at ASU, 555 N. Central Ave. #416, Phoenix, AZ 85004. An e-book file will also suffice; please send the e-book in PDF, EPUB […]

Henry Frazier Robinson was born on May 30, 1910, in Birmingham, Alabama, to the Rev. Henry and Corrine (Black) Robinson.1 The Robinsons had seven children: Edward, Theophilus, Maybelle, John, Estelle, Henry Frazier, and Norman.2 The family moved to Oklahoma City when Frazier was less than a year old to escape the segregation of the South […]