Peter A. Hovis

[SABR.Notes] This Week in SABR: June 13, 2025

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This Week in SABR: June 13, 2025

Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Friday, June 13, 2025.
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Check out the full schedule for SABR 53
SABR Defensive Index rankings released through June 8
Steve Steinberg, Lyle Spatz win 2025 SABR Larry Ritter Book Award
Deadline extended! Students, apply now for a Negro Leagues Yoseloff Scholarship
Call for papers: SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference

Check out the full schedule for SABR 53

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, so we hope you’ll 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!

SABR 53 programming updates

Here are a few schedule updates for SABR 53; check out the full schedule for more details:

SABR Defensive Index rankings released through June 8

Tampa Bay shortstop Taylor Walls and Atlanta first baseman Matt Olson lead their respective leagues in the updated SABR Defensive Index™ rankings through Major League Baseball games of Sunday, June 8.

The SABR Defensive Index is used to help select the winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award® and Rawlings Platinum Glove Award™, presented by SABR.

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

Steve Steinberg, Lyle Spatz win 2025 SABR Larry Ritter Book Award

In recognition of their illuminating and informative biography of one of the Deadball Era’s most colorful and controversial stars, Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz are the winners of the 2025 Larry Ritter Book Award for Mike Donlin: A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen, published by the University of Nebraska Press.

The Ritter Award is granted annually by SABR’s Deadball Era Committee to the author of the best book about baseball between 1901 and 1919 published during the previous calendar year. The winner’s work must demonstrate original research or analysis, a fresh perspective, compelling thesis, impressive insight, accuracy, and clear, graceful prose.

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

Deadline extended! Students, apply now for a Negro Leagues Yoseloff Scholarship

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 23, 2025.

All baseball fans are welcome to attend the 2025 Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference. 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.

Call for papers: SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference

SABR and the International Women’s Baseball Center have announced a call for papers for the seventh annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference, scheduled as a virtual event for September 19-21, 2025.

Registration information will be available soon at SABR.org/women-in-baseball-conference.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Women Beyond the Diamond.” Topics can focus on ideas such as announcers, owners, executives, writers, artists, architects, and much more. All topics and time periods related to women’s baseball are welcome. Abstracts accepted for posters and/or oral presentations.

Please submit abstracts of approximately 200 words, along with contact information and a short biography, by July 1, 2025, to Leslie Heaphy.

Save the date: Join us for SABR Analytics Conference on Feb. 27-March 1, 2026

Save the date! The 15th annual SABR Analytics Conference will be held on February 27-March 1, 2026, at the Beus Center for Law and Society on Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix Campus in Phoenix, Arizona.

Registration information will be available at SABR.org/analytics beginning in the fall of 2025.

The Analytics Conference schedule will consist of research presentations and guest speakers from throughout the baseball analytics community, career development sessions led by experienced sports professionals, industry networking opportunities, and the Diamond Dollars Case Competition — all available for any aspiring front office executive or baseball fan to attend. Students will have opportunities for skill acquisition and development, including sessions on how to work with baseball-related data sets as well as databasing and SQL.

Visit SABR.org/analytics to learn more.

Join SABR’s Campaign for Baseball Research!

Research isn’t just part of our name—it’s the heart of everything we do.

From our expansive Research Collection to the powerful tools and resources we offer baseball scholars and fans alike, SABR is where baseball’s past meets its future. We’re working towards our vision of becoming the essential community for baseball worldwide—and we can’t do it without you.

This spring, we invite you to join the Campaign for Baseball Research. Our goal is to raise $75,000 to expand, maintain, and preserve SABR’s Research Collection and Research Resources for current and future generations of baseball enthusiasts. We will use your best gift of $150, $300, $500, or $1,000 to better serve our growing membership base, attract more attention for our research, and offer new research tools to all corners of the worldwide baseball community.

To donate or learn more about recent Research Collection projects and upgrades to our Research Resources, assets, and tools made possible by your donations visit sabr.org/donate/research-campaign.

Seeking peer reviewers for upcoming Baseball Research Journals

SABR’s publications team is seeking to expand our pool of peer reviewers for upcoming editions of the Baseball Research Journal. Are you a SABR member who has been published in the BRJ, The National Pastime, or a SABR book project? Would you like to read and give feedback on 1-4 papers per year?

Please email Liz Roscher with your subjects of expertise/interests and we’ll work with you to match up with any appropriate article submissions. All reviews are double-anonymous.

June 2 Board minutes posted

Minutes from the Board of Directors conference call on June 2, 2025 have now been posted on the SABR website.

Click here to view all past minutes of SABR Board meetings.

Tickets now available for 2025 Saberseminar in Chicago

Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball, a weekend seminar for the benefit of charity, puts you up close with some of baseball’s top coaches, statisticians, scouts, doctors, and scientists. This year’s Saberseminar will be held on August 23-24, 2025, at the Hermann Hall Conference Center in Chicago. Tickets are now available for sale at saberseminar.com, including discounted rates for students.

During this event, you will grasp how science is blended with advanced baseball statistics and traditional scouting assessments to produce outstanding results for teams. Don’t miss this special opportunity to learn about the deeper game of baseball from insiders and pros and meet people who love the game. Every penny earned during this baseball weekend will go directly to the Alliance to Cure Cavernous Malformation, the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and our own scholarship fund.

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

6 new stories published at SABR Games Project

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

Stan Musial
Edited by Bill Nowlin and Glen Sparks

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.orgor click here to download the Membership Handbook. Find contact information for any SABR member in the online Membership Directory.

NAME HOMETOWN NAME HOMETOWN
Art Altman Savannah, GA Autumn Julio Canton, OH
Kyle Bennett Ellerslie, MD Ben Nauman Fremont, CA
Jordan Cohn Snellville, GA Sergio Paredes Los Angeles, CA
Peter Eisenstadt Philadelphia, PA Alan Quigley Atlanta, GA
Daniel Friedman Dallas, TX Bill Schneper Lancaster, PA
Mark Gawenus Chatham, NJ Harvey Walker Boroughbridge, ENG
Kevin Greenlee Fishers, IN

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

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