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The Society for American Baseball Research holds an annual “day” on which chapters around the world hold regional meetings to discuss all things national pastime. This year’s day was held on Jan. 26, with many writers authors are on hand to discuss their work, including Marty Appel, Dr. Stanley Teitelbaum, and ESPN’s T.J. Quinn, who [...]
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Received the latest (Summer 2010) issue of the BSJ. To be honest, a lot of the statistical stuff therein is a bit over my head/interest level, but there are several book reviews, so it balances out. Among them: Phil Birnbaum on The Bill James Gold Mine 2010 Lee Lowenfish on Satchel: The Life and Times [...]
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The Emerald Guide to Baseball, published by the Society for American Baseball Research, is now available. The new edition includes Opening Day rosters and a “notated Umpires Register,” among other items. You can read my original post about the Guide here.
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Congratulations to Larry Tye, whose biography Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend was named winner of Spitball Magazine‘s Casey Award and the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research. Read (most of) it on Googlebooks.
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Or Emerald, at any rate. Case in point: For the fourth year, the Society for American Baseball Research, of which I have been a proud member for more than 20 years, is offering at no charge, free, gratis, their very excellent Emerald Guide to Baseball. This 500-plus page volume features complete major and minor league [...]
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Or Emerald, at any rate. Case in point: For the fourth year, the Society for American Baseball Research, of which I have been a proud member for more than 20 years, is offering at no charge, free, gratis, their very excellent Emerald Guide to Baseball. This 500-plus page volume features complete major and minor league [...]
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Taking a few days off to head down to our nation’s capital where I’ll be conventioning at the annual Society for American Baseball Research get-together. Looking forward to finally meeting so many good people I’ve only known through the Internet and e-mail. Talk amongst yourselves ’til I get back next week.
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No, it’s not a history of the Irish and the national pastime (although we are getting close to St. Patrick’s Day…) One of the benefits of being a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) are the wonderful publications that arrive in the mail each year. Scholars, historians, math professors, and just plain [...]
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The BJR is produced annually by the Society for American Baseball Research. Several back issues are available from a new Web site. While the stories are usually quite good (written by SABR members), the presentation is a bit clunky. In this era of digitization, one would imagine they could “shoot” the original pages (with illustrations). [...]
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Bibliography Committee Newsletter, September 2008 Features Skip McAfee’s review of The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved Leverett T. Smith’s review of The Curt Flood Story: The Man Behind the Myth An interview with Sarah Freligh, author of Sort of Gone A profile of [...]
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The Pastime.net reports the daily happenings at the 38th SABR convention, now wrapping up in Cleveland.
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Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman has been awarded the Seymour Medal as the best baseball history or biography of 2007. Also recognized as “finalists” were Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball by Norman Macht and Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line by Adrian Burgos, Jr. Author Lee Lowenfish will receive [...]
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The author and SABR member died Jan. 2 at age 52. According to an obituary in the Boston Globe: Mr. Thompson contributed nearly two dozen articles over the years to the organization’s research publications. In 2005, he published his first book, “The Ferrell Brothers of Baseball,” a biography of the Ferrell family of North Carolina, [...]
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is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.
In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
Congratulations to Charles P. of Long Island City, NY, winner of the most recent Facebook Fan drawing, The Might Have Been: A Novel
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What I just read:
Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race
Well-intentioned, but somewhat disappointing in delivery of the intended message. B-.
What I'm reading now
Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
First Impressions: Too soon to tell.
What I'm RE-reading now
Play for a Kingdom
What's next:
Gil Hodges: The Brooklyn Bums, the Miracle Mets, and the Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend
Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game
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* SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter
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The current edition includes reveiws of The Girl Who Thre Butterflies; Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees’ First Dynasty; Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality; and news about SABR book award winners Tom Swift (Chief Bender’s Burden) and Ronald M. Selter (Ballparks of the Deadball Era). SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter, April [...]
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