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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 […]

“You Called That A What …?”The Newsletter of the Official Scoring Committee Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Spring 2016, Volume 1, Number 1 Past newsletters   Editor: Stew Thornley Howdy Conundrum of the Month (or Quarter or Whatever) Committee Meeting at SABR Convention (a Scene You Should Make) What’s Shakin’? Conundrum Answer Everyone’s an […]

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 […]

High and Inside The Newsletter of the BioProject Committee Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) November 2019 Past newsletters Editor: Andrea Long From the Directors Update on BioProject Submissions Let’s be Sociable! From the Editor Project Poobahs   From Co-Directors, Rory Costello and Gregory H. Wolf New Head of Fact-Checking Team Warren Corbett recently informed […]

SABR Bibliography Committee Research Guide No. 10: Baseball in History Journals (1980-88) Editor’s note: This guide was first published by the SABR Bibliography Committee in 1989. To download the original in PDF form, click here. By Jim SumnerApril 1989 This guide consists of all the articles I could find on baseball history published in history […]

Edited by Bill Staples Jr. and Eric Robinson, Committee Co-Chairs IN THIS ISSUE Library of Congress: Playing and Talking about Baseball across the Pacific 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series Sayonara, Ichiro Video: Ichiro’s final swings in America Gentle Black Giants Now Available Rob Fitts wins 2019 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award Exclusive offer from McFarland for […]

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 […]

“You Called That a What . . . ?”The Newsletter of the Official Scoring Committee Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) October 2017, Volume 3, Number 1 Past newsletters   Editor: Stew Thornley Howdy Conundrum of the Month (or Quarter or Whatever) Non-Guest Column Q & A with Gary Mueller Official Scorers Confab at Winter […]

SABR’s Bud Metheny/Virginia Eastern Shore Chapter met on Sunday, September 15, 2019, at the Williamsburg Library. Thanks to Paul Boren and Alexis Collins for their great presentations yesterday. 1) Scouting the Mind – Alexis Collins With the rise of analytics and video in the scouting of players, is it possible to develop a quantifiable method […]

On Monday, July 18, 2022, members of SABR’s Larry Dierker Chapter met via Zoom or in person at the Spaghetti Western restaurant in Houston. Video: Click here to watch a replay of this meeting on YouTube As President Joe Thompson opened the meeting, there was considerable chitchat about the new draftees, the All Star game […]

The Larry Dierker Chapter held its most recent meeting on August 11, 2018, at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Adam Brodie, an analyst on the Houston Astros research and development team, was on hand to speak in lieu of GM Jeff Luhnow.   Adam said he was a philosophy major who intended to get his […]

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 […]

Thirteen members and guests of the Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter gathered at the Sports Cafe, located at 3579 Pennridge Drive in Bridgeton, Missouri, on Tuesday, November 14, 2017. Chapter president Brian Flaspohler called the meeting to order. Items noted in “Today in Baseball History”: 1957 – Hank Aaron receives 239 points from the baseball writers to […]

Here are the SABR Bookshelf listings for Spring 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 […]