SABR Day 2019

January 28, 2019

This past Saturday (Jan. 26), the Society of American baseball Research held its 10th annual SABR Day, featuring events at regions all over the country. I had the pleasure of participating in an author’s panel at the Elysian Fields Chapter (Northern New Jersey) with my old friend Howard Megdal (The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players; The Cardinals Way: How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time; Taking the Field: A Fan’s Quest to Run the Team He Loves; and Wilpon’s Folly: The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets) and new friends Lincoln Mitchell (Will Big League Baseball Survive?: Globalization, the End of Television, Youth Sports, and the Future of Major League Baseball and Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues) and David Krell (Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture and the forthcoming The New York Yankees in Popular Culture: Critical Essays), the chapter chair (I hope I’m getting his title right) and host for the festivities, which were held at the Hoboken Public Library.

Professional umpire Perry Barber was also on hand to discuss her experiences as one of the few female arbiters in the game.

Here’s the author’s session for your amusement and education:

From right, David Krell, Howard Megdal, Lincoln Mitchell, and yours truly.

And Perry Barber.

It is hoped Saturday’s gathering will serve as a launch point for future Elysian Fields chapter events. Stay tuned.

0Shares

Comments on this entry are closed.

Previous post:

Next post:

script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-5496371-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();