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The Jack Kavanagh Memorial Youth Baseball Research Award was established in 1999 by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) in recognition of Kavanagh’s writing and research achievements and his contributions to SABR. The Award was presented for the first time at the SABR National Convention in West Palm Beach, Florida in June 2000. The […]

Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a new weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer. SABRcast will feature insights and analysis of what’s happening in modern baseball on and off the field, plus compelling interviews with figures from around the game — and music from […]

Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a new weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer. SABRcast will feature insights and analysis of what’s happening in modern baseball on and off the field, plus compelling interviews with figures from around the game — and music from […]

SABR Bibliography Committee Research Guide No. 4:  Index to Baseball Stars, 1950-75 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 Frank PhelpsDecember 1986 This popular annual series of collective biographies commenced with Baseball Stars of 1950, resumed after a […]

Edited by Bill Staples Jr., Committee Chairman IN THIS ISSUE: New Committee Co-Chair Committee website revamp Expanded committee expertise: Taiwanese Baseball The Chinese National Team joins the Texas AirHogs Yosh Kawano honored Baseball’s Bridge to the Pacific: Symposium on US-Japanese baseball relations Discovery of the Kataoka letter: Laying the foundation for Ruth’s ’34 tour of […]

Here are the SABR Bookshelf listings for Summer 2015. 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]