Peter A. Hovis

[SABR.Notes] This Week in SABR: September 20, 2024

RJ Hamster

This Week in SABR: September 20, 2024

Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, September 20, 2024.
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SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference begins tonight
Submit your presentation abstract for 2025 SABR Analytics Conference
Subscribe to the Fall 2024 print edition of the Baseball Research Journal
SABR Digital Library: Sandy Koufax
Read all SABR biographies from One-Win Wonders online
Seeking volunteers for Weiss Baseball Questionnaires

2024 SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference begins tonight

The sixth annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference begins tonight! The virtual event will take place on September 20-22, 2024, with Zoom sessions beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, and 11:00 a.m. on Sunday (all times listed in the Eastern Time Zone.) All baseball fans are welcome to join us.

Celebrated baseball author and photographer Jean Fruth will be the keynote speaker on Saturday evening. Fruth is a co-founder of Grassroots Baseball, an organization that celebrates the amateur game around the world and encourages kids to play ball, and the author of three books, including the upcoming See Her Be Her.

This year’s conference — co-sponsored by SABR and the International Women’s Baseball Center and hosted by Rockford University — is a virtual Zoom event. The conference will feature research presentations, panels, pylon unveiling, and presentation of the Dorothy Award.

Visit SABR.org/women-in-baseball-conference for complete details.

Submit your presentation abstract for 2025 SABR Analytics Conference

SABR is excited to announce the call for presentations for the SABR Analytics Conference, which will be held on March 14-16, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona. Registration for the conference will open in early October. The SABR Analytics Conference brings together the leading minds in baseball analytics to discuss and debate topics relevant to the quantitative analysis of the game of baseball, including aspects of innovation and technology.

Abstracts of proposed research presentations should be no more than 500 words in length, and must include the abstract’s title, review of previous work on the subject, a summary of the research methodology and preliminary and/or final results, and the expected contribution to the field of baseball analytics offered by this work. Please send all abstracts to this e-mail address: analytics-presentations@sabr.org. Please clearly indicate whether you are submitting for the general track or for the student track of presentations.

Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.

Subscribe to the Fall 2024 print edition of the Baseball Research Journal

Beginning in 2024, all SABR members exclusively receive the Baseball Research Journal electronically twice a year. The Fall 2024 issue will be sent out in early November. However, if you are interested in a paperback copy of BRJ for your personal library, we have rolled out a subscription option at a significantly discounted rate: $7 per issue for members, compared to $19.95 at retail.

Click here for a short video on how to subscribe to printed copies of BRJ.

SABR Digital Library: Sandy Koufax

Add a new baseball book to your collection from the SABR Digital Library: Sandy Koufax, edited by Marc Z. Aaron, Bill Nowlin, and Glen Sparks, explores what made the Los Angeles Dodger legend so special in baseball and American society through 17 insightful essays and recaps of 36 key games in his career.

Touching on subjects from Koufax’s potential basketball career, his relationship with manager Walt Alston, celebrity culture in LA, and his effect on the hurlers who came after him, to analyses of Koufax’s stats and records, Sandy Koufax takes a deep dive into one of baseball’s true greats.

Visit SABR.org/ebooks to download the ebook edition for free or save 50% off the purchase of the paperback edition.

Check out the new SABR MLB Team Employee Database

A historical database of Major League Baseball team employees — covering more than 40,000 people dating back to the late 19th century — is now available online through SABR’s Business of Baseball Committee. The SABR MLB Team Employee Database offers a new lens into major-league front and back offices, from team owners to ticket sales.

The MLB Team Employee Database is available for viewing to all SABR members on the Research Resources page. Browse or search by person, team, or season to learn more about the scope of baseball and business operations.

Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.

Call for papers: 2025 SABR Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference

All SABR members are invited and encouraged to submit a Research Presentation Proposal Abstract on any topic of 19th-century baseball for the 2025 Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. The 16th annual Ivor-Campbell Conference is scheduled for April 25-26, 2025. The deadline for proposal Abstracts is October 31, 2024.

Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.

Submit new project proposals to SABR Editorial Board by November 1

SABR’s Editorial Board welcomes new project proposals from members to be considered for publication through the Digital Library, SABR.org, or any other multimedia formats. We strongly encourage new proposals that involve collaboration between SABR research committees and/or chapters, and web-based projects with an eye toward enhanced multimedia presentation.

SABR seeks to publish 2-4 web-based multimedia projects and 6-8 books per year. Book projects should be of a scope that can fit in a single volume, typically between 100,000 and 200,000 total words.

Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.

Call for volunteers: Weiss Baseball Player Questionnaires

SABR seeks volunteers to help adding Baseball-Reference IDs to the Bill Weiss Baseball Player Questionnaires, a collection of self-completed surveys of professional baseball players from 1945-2005, which will soon be made available at SABR.org. Matching the players to Baseball-Reference IDs will make it easier for everyone to find their favorite player. No experience or time commitment is needed, just a love for baseball, data, and history. You can jump right into volunteering at https://tinyurl.com/WeissPage or contact Jason Sigler for an informational video and more instructions.

Since we began this project in October 2023, more than 100,000 questionnaires have already been transcribed. These questionnaires will give baseball researchers tremendous first-hand knowledge from the pens of 18-year-old minor leaguers.

Find new updates to the SABR Research Collection below, including the Baseball Biography Project, Games Project, and Oral History Collection.

Read all SABR biographies from One-Win Wonders

In One-Win Wonders, edited by Bill Nowlin and published by the SABR Digital Library earlier this year, we meet 78 players whose time in the major leagues included only a single pitching win. One-Win Wonders is a companion book to the 2021 SABR book One-Hit Wonders, which included biographies of players who had gotten only a single hit.

All of the biographies from One-Win Wonders are now available to read online at the SABR BioProject, from Nick Adenhart and John Baker to George Tsamis and Wilson Valdéz.

Visit SABR.org/ebooks to download your free e-book edition of One-Win Wonders or save 50% off a purchase of the paperback edition.

3 new stories published at SABR BioProject

Visit SABR.org/bioproject to learn more about the SABR Biography Project or to get involved.

7 new stories published at SABR Games Project

Visit SABR.org/gamesproject to learn more about the SABR Games Project or to get involved.

Turnstyle: The SABR Journal of Baseball Arts, Volume 4
Edited by Joanne Hulbert and Jay Hurd

Visit SABR.org to download the free e-book edition or save 50% off the paperback edition of all Digital Library books.

Here are some SABR headlines from recent weeks that we don’t want you to miss:

Please give a warm welcome to all new SABR members who joined this week! View more Members-Only resources at members.sabr.org or click here to download the Membership Handbook. Find contact information for any SABR member in the online Membership Directory.

NAME HOMETOWN NAME HOMETOWN
Lee Brown N. Richland Hills, TX Mark Kozlevcar El Segundo, CA
Robert Daugird Corpus Christi, TX Madeline Landis Lititz, PA
Aaron Fischman Woodland Hills, CA Carlos Ruiz Apache Junction, AZ
Dan Holmes Grand Rapids, MI Jenna Veri Concord, OH
Gareth Jackson Strood, ENG Torreon Woods Addison, TX
Andrew Jett Waxahachie, TX Haoyang Yan Seattle, WA
Aaron Kaltenbach Fort Mill, SC

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