April 29, 2025

Dear Peter:

Last week we launched the Campaign for Baseball Research, a fundraising effort to expand, maintain, and preserve SABR’s Research Collection and Research Resources for current and future generations of baseball enthusiasts.

In addition to maintaining and improving ongoing initiatives, we will continue to add resources as we aim to better serve our growing membership base, attract more attention for our research, and offer new tools to all corners of the worldwide baseball community.

 

Today, we’re highlighting a few new initiatives in the works that will be funded by a successful campaign:

• Licensing of the Seamheads Negro Leagues Database and future integration into the Lahman Baseball Database at SABR.org, creating a comprehensive archive of major league statistics
• Linking all available Sporting News Player Contract Cards to SABR BioProject biographies.
• Digitizing National Association (Minor League Baseball) records acquired by SABR, which include president’s bulletins and player contracts up to 1993.

Of course, SABR’s work to identify additional resources, support the efforts of research committees and member volunteers, and maintain our existing Research Collection never ends.

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Members like you are integral to our organization’s existence. We hope you will consider a donation to support our efforts to advance baseball research, expand member resources, grow our public collections, and sustain a vibrant baseball community.

Plus, there are some great incentives for contributing during our Campaign for Baseball Research:

All donors making a gift of $150 or more will receive:

• Paperback copy of SABR’s forthcoming book on Stan Musial
• Recognition on SABR website, newsletter, and Annual Report

All donors making a gift of $300 or more will receive:

• Invite to “An Evening with Brian Kenny”, an exclusive virtual event just for SABR’s top donors, featuring a Q&A session with the host of MLB Network’s daily show MLB Now
• Paperback copy of SABR’s forthcoming book on Stan Musial
• Recognition on SABR website, newsletter, and Annual Report

All donors making a gift of $500 or more will receive:

• Signed copy of 72 Stories from the Collection of Geddy Lee, a new book from legendary rock frontman and renowned Negro Leagues memorabilia collector Geddy Lee of Rush
• Invite to “An Evening with Brian Kenny”, an exclusive virtual event just for SABR’s top donors, featuring a Q&A session with the host of MLB Network’s daily show MLB Now.
• Paperback copy of SABR’s forthcoming book on Stan Musial
• Recognition on SABR website, newsletter, and Annual Report

Thank you so much for your consideration in joining the Campaign for Baseball Research!

 

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