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[SABR.Notes] This Week in SABR: May 23, 2025

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This Week in SABR: May 23, 2025

Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, May 23, 2025. Please note: The SABR office will be closed on Monday, May 26 for the Memorial Day holiday. Click here to view this newsletter on the web.

SABR 53: Hotel block, merch, ticket deadlines are next week
Armour, Puerzer win 2025 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Awards
Early registration now open for Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference
Submit candidate statements for vacant Board seat by May 28
All Campaign for Baseball Research donations matched, this week only
Vote now for SABR 19th Century Overlooked Legend of the Year

SABR 53: Hotel block, merch, ticket deadlines are next week

We hope you’ll join us at SABR’s 53rd annual convention, which be held on June 25-29, 2025, at the Westin DFW Airport Hotel in Irving, Texas. All baseball fans are welcome to attend. A few important deadlines are approaching soon, so make sure to register today:

Full registration or single-day registration for SABR 53 can be purchased online in advance or on-site during convention registration hours beginning on Wednesday, June 25 at the Westin hotel. Click here for complete details on SABR 53 registration rates.

SABR 53 will feature a Texas-sized speaker lineup we know you’ll love — including Hall of Famers Ferguson Jenkins and Iván Rodríguez, and Rangers World Series-winning manager Bruce Bochy and President of Baseball Operations Chris Young — alongside an invigorated social experience emphasizing SABR’s ability to unite all of us in baseball fellowship.

Visit SABR.org/convention to learn more or to register today!

Armour, Puerzer win 2025 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Awards

The 2025 winners of the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, which honors the best articles on baseball history or biography completed or published during the preceding calendar year, are:

The selection committee included Barbara Mantegani (chair), Stephanie Liscio, Roberta J. Newman, and Allen Tait. For a complete list of winners of the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, click here.

Early registration open for Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference in Louisville

Early registration is open for SABR’s annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, which will be held on August 7-9, 2025, at the Galt House Hotel, 140 N. 4th St. in Louisville, Kentucky. All baseball fans are welcome to attend. Full and single-day registration is available for a discounted rate before July 7, 2025.

Visit SABR.org/malloy for more information or to register.

Students, apply now for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend the Malloy Conference

With generous funding from The Nanar and Anthony Yoseloff Foundation, Inc., SABR will award up to four scholarships to high school or college students to attend the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference on August 7-9, 2025, in Louisville, Kentucky. This scholarship will pay for registration, transportation and lodging (double occupancy) up to a total value of $1,250. The objective of this scholarship fund is to encourage high school and college-level student engagement with baseball research and to engender an active interest in baseball and SABR.

All applications must be postmarked or e-mailed to Scott Carter at scarter@sabr.org no later than June 6, 2025.

Click here to download an application or learn more at SABR.org.

All donations matched, this week only!

Over the past month, the Campaign for Baseball Research has outlined SABR’s efforts to expand, maintain, and preserve our baseball Research Collection and Research Resources. We invite you to support the future of baseball research by making a contribution during this important fundraising drive.

Thanks to one generous member, you have the opportunity to DOUBLE THE IMPACT OF YOUR DONATION, this week only. Baseball-Reference.com founder and Henry Chadwick Award winner Sean Forman will match all contributions made through Tuesday, May 27, up to a grand total of $7,500.

To donate or learn more about SABR’s Campaign for Baseball Research and the existing efforts and exciting new initiatives that will be funded by a successful campaign, visit SABR.org/donate/research-campaign.

Vote now for 2025 SABR Overlooked 19th Century Legend of the Year

Each year, SABR’s Nineteenth Century Research Committee selects its Overlooked 19th Century Base Ball Legend — a 19th century player, manager, executive or other baseball personality not yet inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

All SABR members are eligible to cast a vote for the winner. The winner will be announced this summer during the Nineteenth Century Committee’s business meeting at SABR 53 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.

Click here for a list of past winners or to learn more about the project.

Submit candidate statements for vacant Board seat by May 28

Dan Evans’s election as President has created a vacancy for a Director’s seat, and a candidate will be appointed by the Board of Directors.

Any SABR member who is interested in filling the rest of that seat’s term — which begins at the conclusion of the Annual Business Meeting at SABR 53 in June and runs until 2026 — should fill out the candidate statement form and send an email to Mark Armour by May 28, 2025.

Students, apply for a Fall 2025 internship with SABR

The Society for American Baseball Research is seeking student interns to work during the Fall 2025 semester from September 1-December 1. The remote internship is an educational opportunity that may count toward college credit, covering 15-20 hours per week with a flexible schedule. The internship will be for a fixed period of time and is designed to provide the intern with skills and training that may be applicable to working in a nonprofit research environment or in other research-based organizations.

Please send a resume and cover letter in PDF form to jpomrenke@sabr.org. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until all positions are filled.

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

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

Read bios, games online from 2005 Chicago White Sox book

Earlier this year, the SABR Digital Library published The 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox: Grinders and Gamers, edited by Eric Conrad, Mark Morowczynski, Bill Nowlin, and Don Zminda, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the team’s historic World Series victory, the club that broke “the curse of the Black Sox” to finally bring the White Sox a championship after an 87-year drought. All of the biographies, game recaps, and essays

Visit SABR.org/ebooks to download the free e-book edition of The 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox or save 50% off the purchase of the paperback edition.

3 new stories published at SABR Biography Project

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

5 new stories published at SABR Games Project

In addition, these game stories from SABR’s book The 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox: Grinders and Gamers have now been posted online:

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

Here Comes the Pizzer: The Found Poetry of Baseball Broadcasts
Edited by Eric Poulin

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
Connor Andrews Pittsburgh, PA Lucas Karls Campbellsport, WI
Ron Baraff Pittsburgh, PA Jun Hee Kim Champaign, IL
Daniel Beaver Oakland, CA Brianna Lamoureux Miller Place, NY
Cody Blair Lima, OH Grace Maretsky DeBary, FL
Christopher Bloom Chicago, IL John Maroon Columbia, MD
Ben Bradley Seattle, WA Jonathan McGrain Richboro, PA
Gio Crisafulli Astoria, NY Fred McNeil Centreville, MD
David Dalpiaz Champaign, IL Rolando Medina Burleson, TX
Francisco Diaz Solar Richmond, VA Bruce Nash Sherman Oaks, CA
Daniel Eck Chicago, IL Ted Noon Spokane Vly, WA
Timothy Garling Phoenix, AZ Yuhei Oguro Yokohama, JPN
Casey Grombacher Toledo, OH Eric Petroski Philadelphia, PA
Bruce Gunther Bay City, MI William Shelden New Canaan, CT
Joe Hazen Ossining, NY Jack Southard White Plains, NY
Ryan Hillhouse Sacramento, CA Braden Varga New Carlisle, IN
Cael Kaestner Luzerne, IA Christopher Ye Champaign, IL

Upcoming Virtual Meetings

Upcoming In-Person Meetings

To add your SABR event to our calendar listings, please contact Jacob Pomrenke.

Sign up for SABR research committee announcements at SABR.org/research/committees.

Sign up for SABR chapter announcements at SABR.org/chapters.

Click here to learn more about SABR chartered communities.

Here are some recent articles published by and about SABR members:

Please note: Some articles may require a separate subscription to view online. SABR does not endorse, and is not responsible or liable for, any content that appears on a third-party website.

This Week in SABR is compiled by Jacob Pomrenke. If you would like us to include an upcoming event, article, or any other information in “This Week in SABR,” e-mail jpomrenke@sabr.org. To find past editions of TWIS, click here.

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