Search Results

Here are the full SABR Defensive Index™ rankings, through games of September 7, 2014. 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 final SABR Defensive Index™ rankings for the 2014 season among positional qualifiers for the Rawlings Gold Glove Award. Click here to view the 2014 Gold Glove Award winners. For the second consecutive season, the SDI was used to help select the winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award and Rawlings Platinum Glove […]

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 […]

In 2017, SABR’s Women in Baseball Committee established the Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award — “The Dorothy” — named in honor of Dorothy Seymour Mills and her lifetime of contributions to promoting women’s baseball. Eligible candidates include any person with a sustained involvement in women’s baseball or any woman with a longtime involvement in […]

On Monday, October 16, 2022, twenty-one members of the Larry Dierker Chapter gathered together in person at the Spaghetti Western Italian Restaurant on Shepherd Drive in Houston and via Zoom to attend the monthly chapter meeting.  President Joe Thompson welcomed all in attendance including two guests, Troy from Tulsa, Oklahoma and Dave from Kingwood, TX.  […]

SABR Larry Dierker Chapter meeting recapSeptember 10, 2018Spaghetti Western restaurant, 7:00 pm There were 18 members present for this month’s Larry Dierker Chapter meeting on a rainy night in Houston. Please take note of the next three months’ meeting dates as they are different: Monday, October 15, 7:00 p.m. at the Spaghetti Western on Shepard […]

On April 14, 2014, 28 members of the Houston/Larry Dierker Chapter braved extremely cold temperatures and stormy weather to hear three outstanding research presentations from local chapter members at the Westin Hotel in downtown Houston. First Jim Kreuz, following an exhaustive search, provided us with letters and documents from Branch Rickey’s personal papers on Rickey’s […]

SABR’s Sweet Lou Johnson Lexington Chapter held its March 16, 2019, meeting at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library. This meeting marked the first anniversary of the Sweet Lou Johnson Lexington Chapter. There was a brief discussion about the great speakers and fun the chapter had during its first year. This last year’s […]

Members and guests of the Buck O’Neil/North Florida Chapter gathered on May 1, 2024, at The Blu Halo in Tallahassee, Florida, for their monthly meeting. In attendance were: Matt Keelean, President Rene Watters, Communications Co-Director Brent Kallestad, Communications Co-Director Rick Swain, Treasurer Kent Putnam, Secretary Frank Alarcon Franklin Billingslea Jim Crosby (guest of Brent Kallestad) […]

The Forbes Field/Pittsburgh Chapter held its spring meeting at the Heinz History Center on Saturday, April 30. Twenty-seven members and guests attended and were entertained and informed during the following presentations: George Skornickel gave a presentation on Eddie Klep, who briefly played for the Negro Leagues’ Cleveland Buckeyes, and was known as the “White Jackie […]