In case you missed it, the latest issue of the SABRZine contains an article about a couple of prominent SABR members in the news.

Most chapters are having or just had their Hot Stove meetings. I was fortunate enough to attend the Bob Davids Chapter meeting in Washington, DC, the weekend of January 31-February 1 during a visit to the JW Marriott, the SABR 39 convention site. I had the opportunity to attend the Magnolia Chapter meeting last weekend during a site visit in preparation for SABR 40 in Atlanta. As always, it was a pleasure seeing SABR meetings old and new at these meetings.

Please remember that the SABR convention or one of several smaller SABR-sponsored conferences are another way to gather with like-minded baseball fans to share research presentations, talk baseball, and learn more about the game we each love. The Winter 2009 Bulletin lists details about SABR 39, the Seymour Medal Conference, the 19th Century Base Ball Conference, and the Jerry Malloy Conference. Be sure to bookmark the convention website at: http://convention.sabr.org/ for updates.

SABR is grateful to all members who made a 2008 donation to the Society. SABR would not exist without the support of its members. Please note that SABR members can also donate to the organization by taking advantage of the recent extension of tax-free rollover gifts. During these difficult economic times, taking advantage of a tax-free IRA gift is an innovative way to support the ongoing work of the Society for American Baseball Research.

The newly signed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 extends tax-free rollover gifts from traditional or Roth IRAs to 501(c)3 nonprofits such as SABR into 2008 and 2009. Under the rules:

     donors who are 70 1/2 or older may contribute
     contributions may not exceed $100,000 in 2008 and 2009
     transfers from an IRA directly to SABR
    eligible donors to contribute through 2008 and 2009
As was the case in 2006 and 2007, this legislation does not permit an IRA Charitable Rollover to fund life income gifts such as Charitable Gift Annuities and Charitable Remainder Trusts or to make gifts to private family foundations and donor-advised funds. However, a donor can use these funds to pay a pledge made to a charity.

In order to properly complete the gift, your IRA administrator must make the check payable directly to the Society for AMerican Baseball Research. We would appreciate your thoughtful and generous consideration. Gifts should be made to:
 

Society for American Baseball Research
812 Huron Rd E, #719
Cleveland, OH 44115

For more information, please speak wtih your tax or financial planning profession. SABR's office staff and board cannot provide tax or financial planning advice.

Thank you for your continued support of SABR and its programs.

John Zajc
Executive Director

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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Don Larsen’s Perfect Game
 
Saturday, February 28, 2009
11:00 AM
Long Wong’s Chinese American Sports Bar
5230 W. Bluemound Rd.
 
On Saturday February 28, 2009 the Ken Keltner=2 0Badger State Chapter of SABR, with the help of Doak Ewing, President of Rare Sportsfilms, will be showing Don Larsen’s Perfect Game. Doak has graciously offered to show the perfect game pitched by Don Larsen on October 8, 1956. This is an event which is unique! Professor James Walker, Author of the book, "Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on Television", co-authored with Richard Bellamy. will also give a brief presentation prior to the show ing.This game has been shown publicly only on a few occasions, and we THANK Doak for offering to do this!! There will be items for sale including some of Doak's great sportsfilms, and a 50/50 raffle. Food and your choice of beverage will be available! Special Thanks to Paul Wong and his staff for hosting this event!
Reservations are recommended for this event, as seating is limited. You can reserve a spot to watch this historic game by sendi ng an e-mail to Rick Schabowski at RICKIU76@aol.com or by calling at 414-322-4997.
 
Admission is FREE and open to all baseball fans. Lunch and beverages will be available for purchase. We will also have a 50/50 raffle, and will have interesting things for sale.

Hope to see you!

Rick Schabowski

Great meeting Saturday!!!

To get the Borchert Field Project going......I've sent a e-mail out to the person who will get the info out on the web (Gregg), the editor, ( Tom) and the person with, right now, the most info available to forward (Paul).

Whatever you gentlemen feel is the best method to get this out on the site for Baseball fans would be fantastic.....Paul has some great info he's willing to share, and I'm sure the web readers will love it!

Rick

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
  
Greetings to Baseball fans....just think......one month from today...April 10th will be Brewers Opening Day!

Fellow SABR, and MBHA member Bill Povletich has a busy schedule this week, with the release of his book, and an advanced screening of a video....details follow below:


In 1953, the Boston Braves became the first major league team in fifty years to relocate and for the next thirteen seasons, they never experienced a losing season in Milwaukee. Award-winning documentary producer William Povletich captures the history, drama, excitement, and surprises the Milwaukee Braves had in Milwaukee and the world of baseball with a new book from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press entitled Milwaukee Braves: Heroes and Heartbreak and a new documentary film A Braves New World from Milwaukee Public Television.


Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10 will premiere A Braves New World, on Sunday, March 15th at 3:00pm. The 60-minute documentary focuses on how the Braves relocation from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953 served as the catalyst for baseball to reexamine itself as a big business – resulting in a flurry of franchises relocating west, multi-league expansion and cities held hostage to build civically funded stadiums. Please check local listings for additional broadcasts.


Povletich - a Mequon native and UW-Oshkosh graduate - will also be participating in several events throughout Wisconsin to promote the book and film this week. As a fellow Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter Member of SABR, he would appreciate your support by attending any of these events to help preserve the legacy of the Milwaukee Braves.




Launch Event for "Milwaukee Braves"
Open to the public, the mutual launch event for "Milwaukee Braves: Heroes and Heartbreak" and "A Braves New World" will include an advanced screening of Milwaukee Public Television's "A Braves New World" promptly at 7:00pm. Immediately afterwards, there will be a panel discussion with the filmmaker and friends at 8:00pm, with a book signing to follow.
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin
Street: 500 N Harbor Drive
City/Town: Milwaukee, WI



BOOK SIGNINGS
William Povletich at Brown County Public Library
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Brown County Public Library
Street: 515 Pine Street
City/Town: Green Bay, WI



William Povletich at Apple Blossom Books
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Apple Blossom Books
Street: 513 North Main Street
City/Town: Oshkosh, WI



William Povletich at Conkey's Bookstore
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Conkey's Bookstore
Street: 226 East College Ave
City/Town: Appleton, WI



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William Povletich at Creekside Books
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009
Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Creekside Books
Street: W62n596 Washington Ave
City/Town: Cedarburg, WI



William Povletich at Barnes and Noble-West in Madison
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Barnes and Noble at West Towne Mall
Street: 7433 Mineral Point Road
City/Town: Madison, WI

UPCOMING MEETING



The next meeting of the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter of SABR will take place at Long Wong's Chinese-American Sportsbar on Saturday May 2nd at 11 AM SHARP! Our Guest Speaker will be one of the TV broadcasters for the Arizona D iamondbacks, Daron Sutton. Daron has always been a great speaker at our meetings, and we look forward to hear how he's doing, since he and his family have moved to the warm weather!

We will also have a showing of "Bob Uecker: A Baseball Life" by Bob Buege, and Rick Schabowski at the meeting.

Any one interested in making a presentation can contact me.

If you have any questions????? Feel free to contact me at 414-322-4997 or by e-mail at RICKIU76@aol.com.

                        MILWAUKEE BRAVES HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BANQUET

Tickets are going fast for the next MBHA Banquet honoring Bob Uecker at Potowatomi Bingo Casino on Monday May 11. Tickets are $125 and include an excellent meal, great speeches, and an autographed Bob Uecker baseball. If interested contact me.

                         WEBSITES

Two great websites are www.midwestdiamondreport.com, a must go to site to stay abreast of our midwest teams, and www.57braves.com. to stay in-touch with the activities of the Milwaukee Braves Historical Association

Thanks....and I hope to see you soon!

Rick

We're pleased to make two major announcements to the SABR membership and the baseball community at large:

1) SABR is now the publisher of The Emerald Guide to Baseball, and
2) SABR is making the PDF version of The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2009 available as a FREE download from the members-only section of the website (and be sure to direct friends and family to sabr.org so they can get a copy too).

Edited by acclaimed baseball historians (and SABR members) Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer, The Emerald Guide distills the 2008 season down to 586 fact-filled pages that contain the pitching, fielding, and hitting statistics for every player active in the major and minor leagues in 2008. The Emerald Guide fills the hole in the baseball record left by the 2006 demise of the Sporting News Baseball Guide and contains all of the same features and then some, such as team-by-team daily results, a directory of important contacts, and a synopsis of the just-completed season. A bound version of The Emerald Guide is available via print on demand at Lulu.com for $23.94.

Making the PDF of The Emerald Guide available fre to anyone with accesss to a computer is a direct way for SABR to fulfill its mission of disseminating the history and record of baseball. And you, our members, help the organization fulfill this mission each and every day. One of our objectives is for sabr.org to be bookmarked by everyone with a serious interest in baseball. The Emerald Guide offers a step in that direction.

SABR plans to publish The Emerald Guide annually. Gillette and Palmer also authored 2007 and 2008 editions of The Emerald Guide (co-published with Sports-Reference). Free PDF versions of these editions are also available from the SABR website.

Thank you for your commitment to SABR and its mission.. We hope you enjoy The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2009.

Sincerely,

John Zajc, Executive Director

Predict the Standings

SABR is once again conducting its "Predict the Standings" contest. After a one-year hiatus, it is back this year. Simply head to the survey and start predicting the order of finish in the 2009 Major League Baseball season. We've also added a prediction for a couple of the awards.

1,000th Biography Published

Another exciting milestone for SABR is that the BioProject Committee recently published its 1,000th biography to the BioProject website. The ultimate goal of the project is to write an original biography for every person to ever play major league baseball, as well as biographies for those individuals who’ve had a significant impact on the game. Every biography is also available free.

As part of the Biography Project’s efforts, SABR has produced six books of biographies that focus on a particular team, beginning with the 1975 Red Sox and, most recently, Go-Go to Glory: The 1959 Chicago White Sox (2009; ACTA Publications). New biographies are added frequently, with more than 800 in progress.

I am incredibly proud of the Baseball Biography Project and its numerous contributors. They are building a comprehensive resource for all baseball historians. Moreover, this is a project in which virtually every SABR member could eventually take part. There have been more than 16,000 players in the major leagues; our never-ending goal would be to mark the contributions of each one through this project.

Over 3,000 Downloads of the Emerald Guide

As of 11am ET on Friday, March 20, there were 3,016 downloads of The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2009. More than 50 print-on-demand versions of the book were ordered from Lulu.com. We received a mention by Alan Schwarz in his Bats Blog at the New York Times, as well as mentions at several other sites including baseball-reference.com, slickdeals.net, gofreebies.com, baseballthinkfactory.com, Out Of the Park Developments, resourceshelf.com, orioleshangout, redszone, bleedcubbieblue, philaphans, baseballdigestdaily, nysportsdog, and several others. Keep spreading the word!

Last Call for "Going for the Fences" Pre-Publication Price

SABR is pleased to publish Going for the Fences, a compilation of minor league home run records. The book will be released in early April 2009. Originally published in the early 1990s, the book has been updated through the 2008 season and contains dozens of lists of minor league home leaders and feats.

"This book sold very well when we first published it in the 1990s," says SABR Executive Director John Zajc. "We are bringing it back with new info and a slicker look and think that home run fans and minor league fans will both love reading through this book."

Among the lists published in the book are Players with Four or More Home Runs in a Game, Most Home Runs in a Season by Two Teammates (and Three Teammates), Top Ten Career Home Run Hitters by League, and Players Who Led Two Different Leagues in the Same Season.

You'll learn who the 54 players are who led both a major and minor league in homers (Manny Ramirez and Bug Holliday are two of them). You will learn which Hall of Fame players led a minor league in homers. You will get the home run logs of Tony Lazzeri in 1925, Mosse Clabaugh in 1926, Joe Hauser in 1930 and 1933, and Dick Stuart and Frosty Kennedy in 1956. You'll get the year-by-year home run leaders by leagues and much more.

The pre-publication price is only $16 when you order through the SABR store, but hurry, the pre-publication discount expires March 27, 2009.

New Membership Brochure Arrives; Member-Get-a-Member Campaign Ends Soon


The 2009 Member-Get-a-Member campaign ends on March 31, 2009, so time is running out to persuade your friends and associates to join SABR. Each time you refer a new member you have an entry in a drawing in which the prize is to have all convention and events fees paid for the SABR convention in Washington DC (and if you are not able to attend, you can choose to extend your SABR membership by three years). Ask Eileen for a batch of the new brochure or download the information section and the application from the SABR site.

Thank you for your continued support of SABR!

John Zajc, Executive Director

Seymour Hotel Deadline Extended

The Radisson Hotel at Gateway, host to the 2009 Seymour Medal Conference, has extended the deadline for room reservations to March 31. Make your reservations by calling 216.377.9000 or (888) 201-1718, or going online. Go to the “reservations” tab at the top of the page, put in the dates of the conference (April 24-26, 2009), and type in “SABR” in the promotional code area.

You can also still register for the conference, which features Joe Posnanski as the keynote speaker.

The winner of the Seymour Medal will be announced later this week. Check back at www.sabr.org to learn the winner.

 

2009 Renewals

If you have not renewed your SABR membership for 2009, please do so as soon as possible. The deadline to keep your membership active is April 1. You can renew online or by fax (216-575-0502) or by mail (812 Huron Rd E #719, Cleveland OH 44115).

 

The Emerald Guide


As of early this morning, we had over 3,400 downloads of The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2009. The Emerald Guide distills the 2008 season down to 586 fact-filled pages that contain the pitching, fielding, and hitting statistics for each player active in the major and minor leagues in 2008. As with the classic Sporting News Guides, the Emerald Guide also features team-by-team daily results, a directory of important contacts, a synopsis of the just-completed season, and much more.

A bound version is available via print on demand at Lulu.com for $23.94. Every page in the bound edition is in the PDF.

Justin Murphy did a nice interview of Emerald Guide co-editor Gary Gillette on the Seamheads web site.

Be sure to tell all your baseball friends and people in your fantasy leagues (maybe after your draft is over?) that they can get their copy as well by visiting the SABR front page and clicking on the Emerald Guide link.

 

SABR Donation Update


A big thank you to the 246 members and friends (especially the 57 first-time donors) who made a donation to SABR in the first quarter of 2009, raising over $26,000. SABR is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organziation and your donation is deductible to the extent allowed by law. Donate online or by mail.

 

Predict the Standings

As of a few hours ago, we had heard from 220 SABR members and their predictions for the 2009 major league season. So far the members who have responded like the Red Sox, the Indians (by 1 vote over the Twins), the Angels, the Mets, the Cubs, and the Dodgers to win their divisions. Only 1 voter likes Dustin Pedroia to repeat as AL MVP and a half dozen like Cliff Lee to repeat as AL Cy Young. What do you think? Make your choices before Opening Day.

UPCOMING MEETING



The next meeting of the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter of SABR will take place
at Long Wong's Chinese-American Sportsbar on Saturday May 2nd at 11 AM SHARP!
Our Guest Speaker will be one of the TV broadcasters for the Arizona
Diamondbacks, Daron Sutton. Daron has always been a great speaker at our
meetings, and we look forward to hear how he's doing, since he and his family
have moved to the warm weather!

We will also have a showing of "Bob Uecker: A Baseball Life" by Bob Buege, and
Rick Schabowski at the meeting.

Any one interested in making a presentation can contact me.

If you have any questions????? Feel free to contact me at 414-322-4997 or by
e-mail at RICKIU76@aol.com.

                        MILWAUKEE BRAVES HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BANQUET

Tickets are going fast for the next MBHA Banquet honoring Bob Uecker at
Potowatomi Bingo Casino on Monday May 11. Tickets are $125 and include an
excellent meal, great speeches, and an autographed Bob Uecker baseball. If
interested contact me.



OLD TIME BALLPLAYERS ASSOCIATION

The Wisconsin Oldtime Ballplayers Association will be holding it's Jamboree at
Serb Hall, 51st and Oklahoma Avenue on Monday April 20th at 5:30 PM. There will
be a buffet at 6:30 PM. a mega raffle with over 150 Prizes including Brewers
tickets. For more info contact Greg Ebbert at 262-292-4002, or e-mail at
gregebbert@msn.com

MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY EXHIBIT

The downtown Milwaukee Public Library has an exhibit titled "Play Ball". The
exhibit features not only current Brewers memorabillia, but also other great
Baseball exhibits, including an article that was published in the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel a few weeks ago about the origins of the Barrel Man. There are
also some great Baseball books on display from the vast collection available at
the Library!

HENRY AARON STATE PARK TRAIL

This Saturday, April 18th, from 9 AM to Noon, join in the Menomonee River
Valley's Annual Earth Day Clean-Up, and help pick up litter along the river
trail and the Henry Aaron State Trail. There will be a sponsored cook-out after
the event. If interested contact me at RICKIU76@aol.com, or call 414-322-4997.
You can also meet at the chimneys on Canal Street under the 35th Street viaduct
at 8:45 AM.

BREWERS CHARITIES SAUSAGE RUN/WALK

Brewers Charities will be holding it's Annual Sausage Run/Walk on Saturday July
25th. This event is limited to 2,500 participants, and sold out two weeks early
last year. If you're interested in participating,( perhaps we can form a SABR
team?) contact me for more info.

QUESTIONS???

Don't hesitate in contacting me about all of the events at 414-322-4997 or by
e-mail at RICKIU76@aol.com. Hope to see you!

Rick Schabowski

Dear fellow SABR member:

 

For over 12 years, we have been e-sending a daily baseball trivia question via e-mail to anyone interested. There is no fee. There are no prizes. It's just for fun, and it's not restricted to SABR members. In fact, there is no official connection with SABR at all. We believe, however, that baseball trivia executed correctly aligns neatly with SABR’s goals and we are inviting you to join us.

 

**It is absolutely non-commercial and being on the list of recipients is on an opt-on/opt-out basis.**

 

We believe that the word trivia is misleading. Quality trivia is never trivial, but meaningful, symmetrical, unique, where possible, poetic, but most of all, interesting. We might not always do THAT well every time, but everybody seems to have fun. To give you an idea, here are the questions and answers from a previous week:

 

MONDAY

Q. What major league team often depicts a white elephant holding a bat as part of its logo?

                Hint: Yeah, you probably know this one.

A. A’s

 

TUESDAY

Q. What team played its first major league home games at Wrigley Field?

                Hint: Hoyt Wilhelm, Bill Buckner, and Bobby Bonds played for them.

A. Los Angeles Angels

 

WEDNESDAY

Q. Which is the only major league team to swat 10 home runs in a single game?

                Hint: Their team doctor won a World Series ring as a player.

A. Toronto Blue Jays

 

MID-WEEK BONUS

Q. What team’s players, coaches, and manager all wore clip-on earrings in order to infuriate owner Marge Schott?

                Hint: They were the only team to beat Elroy Face in 1959.

A. Dodgers

 

THURSDAY

Q. What team holds the record of only 65 errors in a 162-game season?

                Hint: They are the only team ever to hit 150 home runs before the All-Star break.

                Hint: They were the last team to have three previous batting title winners on the team for the whole season.

                Hint: They were the first team with a shortstop/second baseman combination with over 60 home runs in a season.

A. Mariners (2003)

 

FRIDAY

Q. What team was once 9½ games out of first place after the first 9 games of a season and then that same year dropped another half-game in the standings three days after their season had ended?

                Hint: Their manager looked down the bench after a string of egregious events on the field and asked, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”.

A. Mets (1962)

 

SATURDAY

Q. What team was saved from being moved to another city by a former milkshake machine salesman?

                Hint: They had to postpone a game during the 2001 season due to an exploding light tower early in a game.

A. Padres

 

WEEKEND BONUS

Q. For which team was "Megaphone Lolly" Hopkins a famous fan?

                Hint: It was the last major league team to have a black player on the roster.

A. Red Sox

 

SUNDAY

Q. Which team drafted John Elway in the first round of the 1981 draft?

                Hint: They were the first team owned by a television network.

A. Yankees

 

WEEKLY THEME

The major league teams of Rickey Henderson (so far)

 

 

If you write back and ask us to, we'll add you to the list of recipients, but you can be removed any time just by asking if it doesn’t prove to be your cup of tea. **We don’t want to send to anyone who is not interested.** If you know anyone else who'd like to be on the list (but might not be a SABR member, for example), a simple e-mail will do it.

 

Whether Scott is sending you the question or whether I am, it will come from the e-mail address <horsehidetrivia@aol.com> and that is the address you should respond to if you wish to sign up.

 

 

~ Bruce

 

D. Bruce Brown

Columbia, MD

Bob Davids Chapter

<dbrucebrown@verizon.net>

 

 

T. Scott Brandon

Port Angeles, WA

Northwest SABR

<t_scott_brandon@msn.com>

Swift to Receive Seymour Medal This Saturday

Tom Swift will receive the Seymour Medal for his book, Chief Bender's Burden, Saturday, April 25 at the Radisson Hotel-Gateway in Cleveland, Ohio. Read this for more information on the award and the book.

The conference registration remains open until Friday morning; Kansas City Star sportswriter Joe Posnanski is the featured speaker on Saturday, which also includes presentations by Gene Carney, Paul Doutrich, John Burbridge, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte, and Jim Shearon. Contact Susan Petrone for more information.

All Convention Events Now Listed at SABR Store

You may have been one of the 400 who registered for the convention early late last year (or not); now you can order your SABR Night at Camden Yards tickets, your bus transportation, your luncheon with Stan Kasten ticket and more at the SABR store. The mailer, along with the Election issue and the Spring 2009 issue of The SABR Bulletin is in the mail stream now. Everyone should receive it by May 18.

SABR-Yoseloff Baseball Research Grant Deadline Coming Soon

The deadline for submissions for the 2009 cycle of funding for the SABR-Yoseloff Baseball Research grants is May 15, 2009. The purpose of the grant is to help remove barriers to baseball research by reimbursing the costs of doing research (up to $1,000). In exchange, your research is to be published by SABR. For more information, head to this page.

IBAF Using Facebook to Help Revive Baseball's Olympic Stature

The IBAF needs to prove that people care about baseball going back in the Olympics. A major way to do this is to join their Facebook group page. The group is named, “International Baseball Federation – Bring Back Baseball in 2016.”

The link is: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53612001487&ref=mf

Join the movement and get baseball in the Olympics.

SABR also has a new Fan page at Facebook.

New Membership Brochures Available

As of 5pm on April 21, we had 361 new members for 2009. This is a little behind our projections for the year. You can help by sending SABR brochures to your baseball friends. Request brochures from Eileen Canepari. Don't forget to remind your baseball friends that they can get their complimentary PDF of The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2009.

You can also help us do a better job of attracting potential new members by telling us why you are a member. Head to this site to tell us.

Thank you for your continued support of SABR!

John Zajc
Executive Director
Society for American Baseball Research

UPCOMING MEETING


The next meeting of the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter of SABR will take place at Long Wong's Chinese-American Sportsbar 5230 West Bluemound Road, TOMMOROW May 2nd at 11 AM SHARP! Our Guest Speaker will be one of the TV broadcasters for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Daron Sutton. Daron has always been a great speaker at our meetings, and we look forward to hear how he's doing, since he and his family have moved to the warm weather!

We will also have a showing of "Bob Uecker: A Baseball Life" by Bob Buege, and Rick Schabowski at the meeting.

Food and beverage will be available for purchase.

If you have any questions????? Feel free to contact me at 414-322-4997 or by e-mail at RICKIU76@aol.com

The season is in full swing and the SABR office has been busy with the Seymour Medal Conference, preparing the next issue of The Baseball Research Journal, collecting the first ballots for the Board of Directors elections, and gearing up for SABR 39.

If you have a research idea that's been turning around in your mind but have balked at pursuing it because of travel or other research-related fees (library fees, photocopying, etc.), consider applying for the SABR-Yoseloff Baseball Research Grant. The deadline is Friday, May 15. Need an application form or more information? A big thank you to the Anthony A. Yoseloff Foundation for their support of this program.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the SABR-Sporting News Award: Ronald Selter, for Ballparks of the Deadball Era; Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson, and Tim Wiles for Baseball's Greatest Hit; and Jim Walker and Rob Bellamy for Center Field Shot. Read more about the award and the winners HERE. Thank you to the Sporting News for their longtime support of this award, and to every SABR member, whose support of baseball research makes these awards possible.

A recap of the Seymour Medal Conference is available on the website. A big thank you goes to Medal winner Tom Swift, who gave a wonderful reading and talk about the writing process for his award-winning book, Chief Bender's Burden; to keynote speaker Joe Posnanski, who gave one of the most entertaining and candid keynote addresses in recent memory; and to those members who gave such fascinating presentations. Thanks go out to the Cleveland Indians Baseball club for their continued support of the Seymour Medal Conference.

The Spring issue of The SABR Bulletin is still being delivered to parts of the country. If you don't have your copy by May 20, please let us know and we will mail a replacement. In this issue you will find the convention registration form and information and the ballot for the 2009 SABR Elections. Please take the time to read the candidates' statements, contact them with questions you might have, and cast your ballot. SABR is your organization, so be sure to cast your ballot.

Did you know? On April 20, 2009, the average age of a new SABR member was 43.92? That the states with the most SABR members were New York (588), California (572), Ohio (411), Pennsylvania (368), and Massachusetts (304). That through April 30, this year 299 donors have donated more than $75,000, led by estate gifts from John Pardon and Steve Breen.

Last week, I had the pleasure of announcing the winners of the Sporting News-SABR Award (click here if you missed the list of winners). Today, I'm happy to announce the winners of the McFarland-SABR Award, which honors the authors of the best articles or papers (published or unpublished) on baseball history or biography completed during the preceding calendar year.

This year's winners are:

* David Laliberte (for "Myth, History and Indian Baseball: An Unexpected Story of the Game in Minnesota")

* William J. McGill (for "The Greatest College Pitcher: George Sisler at Michigan")

* David Vaught (for "Our Players Are Mostly Farmers: Baseball in Rural California, 1850-1890")

Fifty years ago today....unarguably the greatest pitching feats took place at Milwaukee County Stadium.....Harvey Haddix's performance, which, in most people's opinion because of the changing nature of the game, will never happen again.

I DON'T like using these mails to promote BUT this evening at 9PM Fox 6 reporter Mark Concannon will do a report on the game, interviewing two of the players............Felix Mantilla and Johnny Logan...should be pretty interesting!

Hope all is well!

Rick

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