From: SABR Member Lyle Spatz. Replies to this message will go to its author.
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I am looking for someone to write the biography for pitcher Harry Taylor. Be
aware that I would want a first draft within 4 months.
If interested, I'm at lspatz@comcast.net

Lyle Spatz
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UPCOMING MEETINGS
The next meeting of the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter of SABR will take place at Long Wong's Chinese-American Sportsbar, located at 5230 West Bluemound Road, Milwaukee Wi. tommorow, Saturday November 14, 2009 at 11 AM SHARP.
 
Agenda:
Nomination and Election of Chapter Officers...Current Officers Terms expire in November
Research Presentation- The 1955 All-Star Game by Rick Schabowski which will precede....
Courtesy Of Doak Ewing of RareSportsfilms the screening of a highlight film of the 1955 All-Star Game.
One of the players from that All-Star Game....Johnny Logan will also attend the meeting!
Another film courtesy of Rare Sportsfilms... 1962 Milwaukee Braves highlights.
Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter member Dennis Pajot will talk about his book ,"The Rise of Milwaukee Baseball".
A tablet will be available for people to write down some memories they have of the late Bob Koehler to be used for a display at the Milwaukee Central Library.
Food and beverage will be available at the meeting.
50/50 Raffle, Items for sale, and a raffle for one of Doak Ewing's great films.
If you're interested in making a presentation..call me at 414-322-4997, or e-mail at RICKIU76@aol.com
Special thanks for Paul Wong and his staff for hosting this meeting,and Doak Ewing for providing the films.
 
Rick

I believe that most of you are familiar with the ongoing project to create a
book of biographies dedicated to the 1954 Indians, winners of 111 games and the
American League pennant.

Joseph Wancho (jw2462@sbcglobal.net) reports that he still needs volunteers to
write the biographies of five players. They are:

Bob Feller
Dave Hoskins
Rocky Nelson
Jose Santiago
Dick Tomanek

Please contact Joseph and volunteer to take part in this great project. Thanks.

Mark Armour

UPCOMING MEETINGS
The next meeting of the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter of SABR will take place at Long Wong's Chinese-American Sportsbar, located at 5230 West Bluemound Road, Milwaukee Wi. on Saturday November 14, 2009 at 11 AM SHARP.
 
Agenda:
Nomination and Election of Chapter Officers...Current Officers Terms expire in November
Research Presentation- The 1955 All-Star Game by Rick Schabowski which will precede....
Courtesy Of Doak Ewing of RareSportsfilms the screening of a highlight film of the 1955 All-Star Game.
One of the players from that All-Star Game....Johnny Logan will also attend the meeting!
Another film courtesy of Rare Sportsfilms... 1962 Milwaukee Braves highlights.
Food and beverage will be available at the meeting.
50/50 Raffle, Items for sale, and a raffle for one of Doak Ewing's great films.
If you're interested in making a presentation..call me at 414-322-4997, or e-mail at RICKIU76@aol.com
Special thanks for Paul Wong and his staff for hosting this meeting,and Doak Ewing for providing the films.
 
ANOTHER SABR MEETING!
The Emil Rothe Chapter ( Chicago) has a meeting planned...details follow.

The next meeting of the Emil Rothe (Chicago) SABR Chapter will be held on
Saturday November 7, 2009 from 1:00pm to 4:45pm at the Chicago Public Library’s
Roosevelt Branch (1101 W. Taylor) in Chicago’s “Little Italy” neighborhood. The
featured speaker will be Brain Cooper whose recently published book on Ray
Schalk (Ray Schalk: A Baseball Biography) will be the focus of his
presentation.
 
OTBA Hall of Fame Banquet
 
The Old Time Ballplayers of Wisconsin will be holding their Hall of Fame Banquet...details follow...
 
 
2009 Old Time Ballplayers
Hall of Fame Inductees
 
Tom O’Connell
John Lutz
Bill Tarrolly
Jim Cleary
Addie Joss
 
Ray Schuster Lifetime Achievement Award
Bob Lee
 
Dick Falk High School Player of the Year Award
Kevin James– Whitefish Bay High School
 
Master of Ceremonies
Robb Edwards
0A
Milwaukee Brewers Public Address Announcer
Sunday, November 8, 2009
4:30 p.m. Social Hour
6:00 p.m. Dinner Program to follow
 
American Serb Memorial Hall
 S. 51st Blvd and Oklahoma Ave.
 
RSVP OTBA
P.O. Box 579
Thiensville, WI 53092
Tickets $20.00 per person
Souvenir Programs $9.00 each
Banquet Boosters $3.00 per name
For Business or Congratulatory Ads
Contact Greg Ebbert 262-292-4002 262-292-4002
gregebbert@msn.com
 
 
 

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Don't hesitate in contacting me with any questions by either calling me at 414-322-4997, or by e-mail at RICKIU76@aol.com
 
 
 
Rick

Mark Your Calendars
The dates for SABR 40 have been finalized: We will be at the Sheraton in downtown Atlanta August 5-8, 2010! The convention room rate is $129/night (plus tax). More details on convention registration will be forthcoming; check the convention website often. This will be the first time SABR has held a convention in Atlanta, and the Magnolia Chapter is working hard to put together a great program. We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta next year.

Lunchtime Listening
Over the next six weeks, SABR will be posting audio files of research presentations from SABR 39 to the convention website. Each of the presentations is approximately 25-30 minutes long--just right to listen to during your lunch break! This week, we're posting:

RP2: Gitter/Rhoads – Stadium Construction and Fan Attendance for Minor League Baseball (business)
RP6: Todd Peterson – The Whole Show: George Wilson 1875-1915 (bio)
RP8: Anthony Giacalone – Baseball’s Lost Generation: The Profound Effect of the Great Depression on Baseball in the 1960s (stats)
Arizona Fall League Conference
Don't forget that the inaugural Arizona Fall League Conference will be held November 12-14. You won't want to miss the chance to hear Diamondbacks GM Josh Byrnes, three-time MLB Executive of the Year Roland Hemond, and AFL Director Steve Cobb at the kick-off breakfast! Register for the entire conference or just one day at the SABR Store. The conference hotel is the Embassy Suites-Tempe (the hotel registration deadline has passed, though).

ACTA Discount
SABR members can get a generous discount on books from ACTA Publications and help SABR at the same time. On all book orders now through December 31, 2009, SABR members can receive a 20% discount on their entire order simply by typing the word "SABR" (all caps) in the "Discount Code" field after making your first book selection. You can order the new Bill James Handbook (out November 1) or choose from ACTA''s huge selection (including SABR BioProject book, Go-Go to Glory). Books in stock will be shipped within two working days. In addition, $1 from each order will be donated to SABR!

Emerald Guide to Baseball 2010
If you're one of the several thousand SABR members who downloaded The Emerald Guide to Baseball last spring, you know what an excellent resource this is. We are pleased to announce that SABR will again be publishing The Emerald Guide in 2010! We will be rolling the Guide out in sections. First up are the minor league statistics, which will be available in early November. Subsequent to the minor league data, we'll be releasing statistics for major league players, the playoffs, and Winter Meetings and transactions. The entire Guide will be available for free download in PDF format or for purchase in printed form in late winter 2010. Free PDFs of the 2009 Emerald Guide are still available via the "Members Only" portion of the website.

Renewals Starting Strong
Over 1,600 members have already renewed their membership for 2010, putting the 2009-10 renewal season ahead of most others. You can renew online at the SABR Store, or download a renewal form here. Not sure if you've paid for 2010? Log in at the members-only site and check. We also printed your expiration date (as of September 24) on your most recent issue of The SABR Bulletin (in the mail now). Also, be sure to remember that usernames changed recently to your LastnameFirstinitial and a two-digit number. Your password remained the same.

Thank you for your continued support of and membership in SABR.

John Zajc
Executive Director

Hello fellow biographers,

I wanted to urge all of you to take a few minutes to renew your SABR membership.
SABR is not going to be sending a reminder in the US Mail this year unless you
do not have an email address--instead they are going to be counting on email
reminders. Keeping all of you in SABR is especially important for the Biography
Project--not just because of the biograhies you are planning to write, but
because of the ones you have already written. We get suggestions or corrections
all the time, and if you are not in SABR I might not be able to find you. I
contact a lot of former members who tell me that renewing slipped their mind,
and they would immediately be rejoining. Why not rejoin today?

I know that money is tight for many of us. I will point out, however, that this
is a great time to be a SABR member. There is a brand new SABR (wiki-based) web
site being rolled out, SABR is going to soon be getting on-line Sporting News
access for members. Our publications programs has never been in better shape,
with three new member publications promised for next year

Best of all, you get to be SABR members. Really, what a great thing to be able
to tell people. All of this great research and writing, and you get to to be
part of it, and get to do some of it yourself.

To renew, visit this site: http://members.sabr.org/members.cfm?a=mys&mys_a=ren

While you are there, please consider making a donation if you can afford to.

Looking forward to great things in SABR in 2010,
Mark Armour
Chair, Baseball Biography Project

Ninety Years Ago: Remembering the Black Sox
from TSN
 It was the fall of 1919. The war to end all wars was over for less than a year and life was getting back to normal in North America. Boston's Babe Ruth led all of baseball in home runs in 1919 with 29. But the big story in 1919 wasn't The Babe. It was the Fall Classic - a series remembered for spawning one of the biggest controversies in baseball history - the infamous Black Sox scandal. More
    

Fields of Dreams
from Anchorage Press
"Where else would you want to spend your summer?" That's the question Bill "Spaceman" Lee poses near the conclusion of Touching the Game Alaska, a new film about the Alaska Baseball League. Lee was eventually a noteworthy pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos, but before he pitched for them, back in 1966 and 1967, he wore the uniform of a Fairbanks team called the Alaska Goldpanners. More
    

Dodgers to Pay Tribute to Lasorda
from MLB
Dodgertown will become Tommytown once again when legend Tommy Lasorda will be honored at Dodger Stadium for his 60 years with the club. The Dodgers announced that the first 50,000 fans at a recent Friday game against the Rockies would receive a commemorative Tommy Lasorda Hall of Fame replica plaque. In addition, Lasorda's official Hall of Fame plaque from Cooperstown will be on display in Autograph Alley. More
    

Negro Leagues All-Stars Were a Big Hit in the Big Easy in 1939
from New Orleans and Louisiana Sports
For one day in New Orleans in 1939, a scant 50 cents would have bought a close-up view of some of the best baseball players in the country. That's because 70 years ago, dozens of African-American superstars converged at Pelican Stadium for the first Negro Leagues North-South all-star game. More
    

Tigers, Twins Give Fitting End to Baseball in Dome
from The Associated Press via Google
It's a tough place to get nostalgic about, even as they get ready to take the baggies down for good. About the only things Minnesotans really liked about the Metrodome was that it was warm and the mosquitoes couldn't get inside. The plan all along was to play the last baseball game, then say goodbye. But then a ball got lost in the cloudy roof, the Twins got hot, and things changed. In its last days as a baseball stadium, the dome suddenly doesn't look so bad after all. More
    

From Killing Fields to Fields of Dreams
from Foreign Policy in Focus
Cambodia is an unlikely place for baseball. There is chronic poverty, lingering post-war trauma, and rampant human trafficking. Children are more likely to work or rummage through the fetid muck of the Steung Meanchey dump than go to school or play. But for the last seven years, Joe Cook, a Cambodian refugee, has been teaching the game in his homeland, building Cambodia's first ball field. More
    

'For the Love of the Game'
from TC Palm
There is no other sport in which the vivid images from our youth, the magical moments of yesteryear and the sacred numbers that will be forever linked with heroic names are so imbedded in our memories. That's what the folks at The Elliott Museum on Hutchinson Island, Florida, are counting on. With the playoffs about to begin, the museum is celebrating baseball with a month-long exhibit - "Fall Classic: For the Love of the Game" - that will showcase an extensive collection of baseball artifacts, some of which date back 100 years. More
    

Miami Girl Gets Back Historic Baseball After Lawsuit
from The Miami Herald
Who would have imagined that a home run by Phillies slugger Ryan Howard would turn into a legal tug of war with a 12-year-old kid from Miami? More

 I am happy to have lots of good news to share about what various SABR members are doing.

The History Department at Cornell University has accepted funds to begin the Harold Seymour lectureship in sports history this spring. The inaugural event will honor the contributions of Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills to the field of baseball history. At the inaugural event on April 21, 2010, Mills will speak on her and her late husband's contributions to sport history, including her recent baseball writing. Click here for more information on this exciting bequest.

Recently several SABR members have been in the news. In case you missed them, here are some recent articles about or mentioning SABR members.

Craig Lammers was profiled in the Toledo-area Press


Ron Selter was mentioned in The New York Times

Lyle Spatz was quoted extensively in The Washington Examiner

Also, a number of SABR members, led by Gary Gillette and Sean Forman, are collaborating on The Baseball Early Bird. Each issue gives a recap of the previous day's games, some history, some trivia, and some analysis. All this delivered to your email inbox first thing in the morning. Subscribe for free.

The links section of the SABR web site is another place to find out more of what your fellow members are doing on the web.

Remember that October begins SABR's Membership Season. We say "thanks!" to the nearly 1,500 members who have already renewed for next year (or beyond).

In addition to sending in your renewal soon, we hope you will encourage your baseball friends to join you as a member. Our member-get-a-member campaign runs through March 31. You can request brochures from anyone at the SABR office or download one (on the right-hand side) from the website.

Read what several members have said about their membership. We hope you will join them in continuing to be a part of the SABR community.

Larry Granillo at wezen-ball.com

Cecilia Tan at whyIlikebaseball.com

Matt Sisson at Baseball Digest Daily (scroll to the end of the article)

Mike Metzger at Stan Musial's Stance

Mike Lynch at Seamheads.com

Thank you for being a part of the SABR community.

Sincerely,

John Zajc
Executive Director

P.S. The convention dates for the 2010 Atlanta event will be confirmed after we have a hotel contract signed. We are negotiating for the weekend of August 5 to 8, 2010. Look for an announcement before the end of the month.

Happy October Baseball....what a great playoff game on right now! ( Twins-Tigers)
 
UPCOMING MEETINGS
The next meeting of the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter of SABR will take place at Long Wong's Chinese-American Sportsbar, located at 5230 West Bluemound Road, Milwaukee Wi. on Saturday November 14, 2009 at 11 AM SHARP.
 
Agenda:
Nomination and Election of Chapter Officers...Current Officers Terms expire in November
Research Presentation- The 1955 All-Star Game by Rick Schabowski which will precede....
Courtesy Of Doak Ewing of RareSportsfilms the screening of a highlight film of the 1955 All-Star Game.
Another film courtesy of Rare Sportsfilms... 1962 Milwaukee Braves highlights.
Food and beverage will be available at the meeting.
50/50 Raffle, Items for sale, and a raffle for one of Doak Ewing's great films.
If you're interested in making a presentation..call me at 414-322-4997, or e-mail at RICKIU76@aol.com
Special thanks for Paul Wong and his staff for hosting this meeting,20and Doak Ewing for providing the films.
 
ANOTHER SABR MEETING!
The Emil Rothe Chapter ( Chicago) has a meeting planned...details follow.

The next meeting of the Emil Rothe (Chicago) SABR Chapter will be held on
Saturday November 7, 2009 from 1:00pm to 4:45pm at the Chicago Public Library’s
Roosevelt Branch (1101 W. Taylor) in Chicago’s “Little Italy” neighborhood. The
featured speaker will be Brain Cooper whose recently published book on Ray
Schalk (Ray Schalk: A Baseball Biography) will be the focus of his
presentation.
 
OTBA Hall of Fame Banquet
 
The Old Time Ballplayers of Wisconsin will be holding their Hall of Fame Banquet...details follow...
 
 
2009 Old Time Ballplayers
Hall of Fame Inductees
 
Tom O’Connell
John Lutz
Bill Tarrolly
Jim Cleary
Addie Joss
 
Ray Schuster Lifetime Achievement Award
Bob Lee
 
Dick Falk High School Player of the Year Award
Kevin James– Whitefish Bay High School
 
Master of Ceremonies
Robb Edwards
0A
Milwaukee Brewers Public Address Announcer
Sunday, November 8, 2009
4:30 p.m. Social Hour
6:00 p.m. Dinner Program to follow
 
American Serb Memorial Hall
 S. 51st Blvd and Oklahoma Ave.
 
RSVP OTBA
P.O. Box 579
Thiensville, WI 53092
Tickets $20.00 per person
Souvenir Programs $9.00 each
Banquet Boosters $3.00 per name
For Business or Congratulatory Ads
Contact Greg Ebbert 262-292-4002
gregebbert@msn.com
 
 
 

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Don't hesitate in contacting me with any questions by either calling me at 414-322-4997, or by e-mail at RICKIU76@aol.com
 
Good luck to all your "favorite teams'!
 
Rick

  
Oct. 1, 2009
SABR Quick Links > Home Membership Online Resources Convention Research Publications
 
 


How Game Changes, and How It Doesn't
from The New York Times
 Bob Gibson (251 victories) and Reggie Jackson (563 home runs) faced each other exactly once in their long careers - in the 1972 All-Star Game. These are two of the best - and smartest and most strong-minded - Hall of Fame ballplayers still roaming the earth. They competed against each other only one time because they played in separate leagues before the advent of interleague play. More
    

Do MLB Teams Enjoy a Home-Field Advantage from Umps?
from The Wall Street Journal
At Fenway Park, the Red Sox are 52-21, while everywhere else they are 34-37. That means they have been 23 percentage points more likely to win at home than on the road, the third-biggest edge in the majors behind the Pirates and the Tigers. And Fuentes thinks he knows who should get credit: home-plate umpires. More
    

Harwell Serene in Face of Cancer
from Detroit Free Press
As Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell stands in the middle of Ford Field, awash in a thunderous ovation, he looks up with a humble glint in his eye and waves to the 56,269 fans who are saying goodbye for the last time. Harwell, wearing a blue No. 1 Detroit Lions jersey, leaves through a tunnel to chants of "Ernie! Ernie!" Fans wave signs, and he spots a yellow T-shirt with his picture underneath the words "Thanks for the memories." More
    

1984 Chicago Cubs - Where Are They Now?
from ESPN Chicago
John Jacob and Dan Diversey had the type of job that many kids in Chicago dreamed about in 1984 - they were the bat boys for the Cubs. To this day, 25 years later, it's still one of the coolest jobs either has ever had. More
    

Gehrig's Final Hit: A Single on a Cold April Day in the Bronx
from The New York Times
His body betraying him for reasons he could not understand, Lou Gehrig came to bat at Yankee Stadium in the fourth inning against the Washington Senators on April 29, 1939. He had only three hits in the young season. But he had 2,720 in his magnificent career and was playing in his 2,129th consecutive game. More
    

UW-Eau Claire to Host Baseball Exhibit
from Leader Telegram
A traveling exhibit on the history of African-American baseball is coming to UW-Eau Claire in Wisconsin, but it will tell more than a national story. More
    

Atomic Baseball: Book Review
from Esquire
Most of the time, the process of examining historical events revolves around taking a mammoth, multifaceted issue and reducing it to its simplest, least-complicated thesis. (This, after all, is why we have the Internet.) But the best historians do the opposite: They take something small and make it vast. More

4th Annual Baseball Film Festival to feature "A Braves New World," a Milwaukee Public Television documentary produced by William Povletich
 
We are pleased to announce that "A Braves New World" has been selected to be shown at the 4th Annual Baseball Film Festival, held at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, October 2 - 4, 2009. Producer William Povletich, also the author of the exciting companion book, "Milwaukee Braves: Heroes and Heartbreak,'' will be on hand for the screening. Come and explore the triumphs, scandals and enduring legacy of Milwaukee's first Major League baseball team at the Baseball Hall of Fame Film Festival!
 
"A Braves New World" screening at the 4th Annual Baseball Film Festival
National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum
Saturday, October 3, 2009
3:30 PM
25 Main Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326

A Sports History with the World's Oldest Man
from Montana Kaimin
 The world's oldest man at 112-years old, Walter Breuning isn't exactly a prima donna type of man. He doesn't have time to waste. Instead of fielding conventional questions regarding his birth in 1896, or his grandfather's service in the Civil War, during a recent interview, Breuning takes an hour out of his morning to recall a century of sports moments he has witnessed. More
    

Ranking Baseball's Perfect Games
from Sports Illustrated
Mark Buerhle joined one of baseball's most elite clubs on a Thursday afternoon in Chicago -- the Zeros-Only Gang of 18 whose members have each put together 27 consecutive outs in a winning ballgame. It is an elite club, but not limited to elite pitchers. In fact, Buerhle, a good-but-not-great hurler, slots fairly neatly into the middle ranks of the roster of perfectos. More
    

Greats of Baltimore Orioles History: Mike Cuellar
from Baltimore Sports Now and Then
Baltimore Sports Then and Now recognizes Mike Cuellar as the Vintage Athlete of the Week - one of the key pitchers for the Baltimore Orioles during their championship run of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Sometimes timing is everything. After toiling away in the minors and on primarily losing teams for a decade, a seemingly insignificant trade following the 1968 season proved to be all that Cuellar needed to become one of the top pitchers in baseball. More
    

This Annotated Week in Baseball History: Sept. 6 - Sept. 12, 1913
from The Hardball Times
"It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it," Robert E. Lee. Lee, who spent all but the last five years of his adult life in the military, knew what of he spoke. In light of that, one can hardly imagine someone being enthused by the possibility of leaving a career as a major league pitcher in order to serve the country in war. But for Hugh Mulcahy, such an option might have seemed, if not ideal, then at least acceptable. More
    

Heroes: My Personal Mount Rushmore!
from The Pecan Park Eagle
Jerry Witte … Larry Miggins … Frank Mancuso … Solly Hemus! That is the order of these four men in this 1998 photo from the Houston Winter Baseball Dinner. Sadly, two of the men shown here, Jerry Witte (2002) and Frank Mancuso (2007), are gone now on the date of this 2009 writing. God rest their souls as those of us who loved them keep their memories alive as best we are able. More
    

Record-breaking Attendance Heralds Renaissance of Korea's Pro Baseball League
from Youth News Agency
Every evening of this season, tens of thousands of roaring spectators have packed formerly quiet ballparks. On a recent Wednesday night, the highest cumulative attendance record in 14 years was set as 5,407,527 fans attended with 50 games still remaining. Founded in 1982, the Korea Baseball Organization had been stagnant since 2000, when South Korea's big-name players went to the U.S. Major League, causing fans to spend hours at home watching their heroes on TV instead of going to their local ballparks. More
    

Putting the Stars Back in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game
from Baseball Library
July 6, 1933 – The American League defeats the National League 4-2 in a mid-season exhibition game dreamed up by Arch Ward of the Chicago Tribune. Five hours? Fifteen innings? Twenty three pitchers? Three errors and three strikeouts by the same player? The prospect of outfielders or third basemen going to the mound to pitch? The possibility of calling the game due to a lack of players? Sounds more like the slow pitch softball game at the office picnic than the so-called "Mid-Summer Classic." More
    

Pittsburgh's Certainly Not Alone in Baseball's Era of Futility
from Sports Illustrated
Here's the thing. You already know that the Pirates now have 17 straight losing seasons. But what you might not know -- or at least might not have thought about -- is that over those 17 years, eight other teams have had long stretches of losing baseball. More
    

Please Note: A technical problem has prevented us from re-running the Tommy Brown article in this issue. We are working on the problem and will run it again in a subsequent issue. We apologize for any inconveniences.
 

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It's difficult to believe that the summer--and baseball season--are almost over.


In order to keep SABR readers and researchers in reading material through the off-season, we're pleased to announce that SABR has added 13 issues of Baseball Research Journal and 18 issues of The National Pastime to the SABR online journal archive. This addition makes more than 500 new individual research articles available online to SABR and other baseball historians, statisticians, and fans. Click here to go to the archive.

See the Stars of Tomorrow with Fellow SABR Members Today

If you are looking for a way to get together with SABR members and keep your baseball fix going after the regular season ends, consider attending the inaugural Arizona Fall League Conference.

The EARLY BIRD HOTEL REGISTRATION DISCOUNT ends September 18, 2009.


The registration fee of $75 include:


tickets to four AFL games
round trip bus transportation between the hotel and the ballparks
an Arizona Fall League media guide
an Arizona Fall League program
the kickoff breakfast (speakers include AFL founder Roland Hemond, AFL president Steve Cobb, and MLB General Manager (TBA))
ballpark dinner
Registration for the Arizona Major League Alumni dinner is sold separately at $75 person. The dinner will feature presentation of the Arizona Baseball Awards honoring the top Major and Minor League players from Arizona as well as the top college, junior college, and prep baseball and softball players.


Hornsby Chapter Site Adds Audio


SABR member Tom Wancho was interviewed on a Round Rock Express radio broadcast, and the chapter received permission to post it on their web site. The Hornsby Chapter is one of several chapters who have worked with Peter Garver to update their web site. you may also want to check out the Bob Davids Chapter site. and the Field of Dreams Chapter web site.

Look for Renewal Notice Soon

Fall is also membership renewal season. A hearty "Thank you" if you've already renewed your membership. We will be sending out renewal notices in the next few weeks. I hope you will all continue to be a part of the SABR community.


Best wishes,

John Zajc, Executive Director

Look Past Statistics and You'll Find a Dandy Tale
from Baseball Todd’s Dugout
 Former big league outfielder Danny Walton could hit like Mickey Mantle at times during his professional baseball career. Unfortunately, he also ended up with a bad knee just like his childhood hero. "Mickey Mantle was my idol since I was a little kid," said Walton, who was nicknamed "Mickey" for his prowess as a switch-hitter in his youth. "I could hit a ball further left-handed than I could right-handed. I was probably a better average hitter right-handed - just like Mantle. I had a gimpy right knee and so did he. We just kind of fit right in together!" More
    
Tommy Brown Recalls His Career
by Bill Traughber
Most 16-year-old boys like to think about cars, cool clothes, hanging out in malls, talking on cell phones and of course – girls! But when Brentwood, Tennessee resident Tommy Brown was 16 years old, he was at Ebbets Field the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Brown was facing major league pitchers and his only thoughts were – fastball or curveball. In 1944, Brown became the youngest position player to play major league baseball at 16 years, seven months of age. More
    

Bakersfield Baseball History: No. 5
from The Examiner
Times were certainly different in 1958. Pitchers throwing 250-plus innings in the minors back then? Yes, times have certainly changed. But one thing that hasn't changed is wins and losses, and this team had a lots more in the win column than on the loss side. In looking at the 61-year history of Bakersfield baseball, this team ranks as the No. 5 best team in franchise history. More
    

The First Black Baseball Team to Visit Milwaukee
from Seamheads
The first games of baseball involving an all-Black baseball team in Milwaukee were played in 1879. Milwaukee had had a team in the National League in 1878, but the franchise was expelled after the season for unpaid bills. With no team in the National League or any minor league, local amateur clubs dotted the Milwaukee landscape. Probably the best of these were the Maple Leafs. The Maple Leafs played other local amateur clubs, teams from southeastern Wisconsin and the Chicago area. More
    

Baseball's Greatest Nine May be from 1939
from MLB
When the discussion centers on the greatest baseball lineup ever, the best nine of all time, the traditional, reflexive response is "the '27 Yankees." And that is never a bad answer. But there are other lineups that can legitimately be allowed into the argument. One of those should be another Yankees team, this one from 1939. More
    

One of the Most Famous Days in St. Louis Cardinals History
from Baseball Digest
It is a day that will live in almost all Cardinal fans' minds. Great moments have happened in Cardinal history and most dedicated fans can tell you exactly where they were for many of them. Most of them can hear the voice of Jack Buck as he called those moments, almost as clearly as we can see the image of the moments themselves. Let us take a walk down a memory lane that has grown with weeds and clouds and discuss a moment in Redbird past that is viewed quite differently from your current perspective on the events that followed it. More
    

Baseball Revolves Around Number Nine
from MLB
Nine. It is the number of baseball. How it happened exactly, no one can say, not even the most dogged baseball researchers and historians. It became the numerical infrastructure of baseball simply through evolution and trial and error, rather than any magical visions or events. It is a number that truly became synonymous with the national pastime, because more than anything else, it just felt right – as it does today. More
    

Little League World Series Champions from Chula Vista, California
from Sign On San Diego
In June, more than 6,500 Little Leagues from around the world formed 12- and 13-year-old All-Star teams. After compiling a 23-3 record and winning eight games when it faced elimination, Park View can call itself world champions. The seventh- and eighth-graders became the second team from San Diego County to win the LLWS, joining the 1961 El Cajon/La Mesa Northern team that included future NFL star Brian Sipe. More
    
 

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The Society for American Baseball Research and its members accomplish incredible things together. To learn more about what we accomplished between July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009, read the latest edition of the SABR Annual Report. And imagine what we will accomplish this year....

On a sadder note, the SABR community was deeply saddened to learn of two recent deaths to two leaders in the organization: founder Dan Ginsburg and NWSABR leader Paul Andresen. Dan was only 15 years old when he attended the 1971 meeting that would grow to be the SABR we know today, Ginsburg established himself as a first-class researcher. A full obituary is posted on the SABR website.

Andresen served on the SABR national board and was a fixture in the NWSABR Chapter. His obituary can be found here.

If you are looking for a way to get together with SABR members and keep your baseball fix going after the regular season ends, consider attending the inaugural SABR Arizona Fall League Conference November 12-14, 2009.

The registration fee of $75 include:

tickets to four AFL games
round trip bus transportation between the hotel and the ballparks
an Arizona Fall League media guide
an Arizona Fall League program
the kickoff breakfast (speakers include AFL found Roland Hemond, AFL president Steve Cobb, and MLB General Manager (TBA))
ballpark dinner
Registration for the Arizona Major League Alumni dinner is sold separately at $75 person. The dinner will feature presentation of the Arizona Baseball Awards honoring the top Major and Minor League players from Arizona as well as the top college, junior college, and prep baseball and softball players.

The Rocky Mountain SABR chapter holds its 12th annual banquet on November 13, 2009. This year's banquet is themed Baseball Music and Art. The event will feaure baseball recording artist Chuck Brodsky, San Diego SABR member Andy Strasberg, former New York Yankees shortstop Bobby Meacham, and Rockies owner Dick Monfort. As part of the festivities, the SABR is sponsoring an exhibit of baseball-related art from artists around the country that will be on display for two weeks before the banquet and auctioned off the night of the banquet. For more information, contact Paul Parker at: ballparkptp@comcast.net.

McFarland and Co. has plans to publish a new series on historic ballparks, which will be edited by members David Cicotello and Angelo Louisa. The publisher is currently taking requests for proposal for the series. Details are available on the SABR website.

For those who were unable to attend SABR 39 in Washington, DC, we have posted a recap of some of the awards and other highlights on the convention website. A summary of events will also be included in the next issue of the SABR Bulletin.

Want to look great in some new SABR duds? Visit the SABR Store and take advantage of our online birthday sale. Selected shirts, books, and other merchandise are heavily discounted (by 38%) through September 8.

And don't forget to tell your baseball-loving friends and family who haven't yet joined SABR about the September Special. They can join today and for only an additional $9.95, their membership will be paid through the end of 2010, plus they'll receive a free copy of the SABR List and Record Book and the last of the 2009 publications (North American addresses only).

Send them the link to the SABR Store now!

Yours in baseball,

John Zajc, Executive Director