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Vaccinations rise when states button up religious loopholes
NBC News · Erika Edwards
The push to remove religious exemptions for vaccines is meant to drive up vaccination rates. It’s working.
Why your microbiome may matter more than DNA for your lifelong health
bigthink.com · Jasna Hodžić
“The Microbiome Master Key” explores how the microbes living in and on us shape nearly every aspect of human health.
‘Buy now, pay later’ purchases can now affect your credit score
NPR · Laurel Wamsley
The increasingly popular loans that allow shoppers, usually online, to break up a purchase into installments will factor into your creditworthiness.
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Ready-made stem cell therapies for pets could be coming
TechCrunch · Connie Loizos
If it passes regulatory muster, the therapy could create a whole new way to treat your fur babies.
Where to go instead of the big U.S. parks this summer
BBC Travel · Anna Fiorentino
Here’s why it’s time to skip the most-visited top 10 and seek out quieter, equally spectacular ground.
U.S.-Mexico Gold Cup final preview, predictions, more
ESPN · Jeff Carlisle and Cesar Hernandez
Sunday will mark the latest chapter in a once-lopsided rivalry that has favored the USMNT in recent years.
‘The Naked Gun’ is the most important movie of the summer
indiewire.com · David Ehrlich
The studios have given up on comedies, but Liam Neeson’s police spoof is a reminder to Hollywood that we need them more than ever.
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Also stream new releases from Lazer Dim 700, Double Virgo, Rival Consoles, and the Reds, Pinks and Purples.
A hit man sheds light on a notorious Louisiana cold case
atavist.com · David Howard
A former FBI agent asked a hired killer about a murder that haunted him. Then they started talking about a different case altogether.
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Welcome to “This Week in SABR” on Thursday, July 3, 2025. Please note: The SABR office will be closed for the Independence Day holiday on Friday, July 4. Click here to view this newsletter on the web.
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Tom Hufford honored as 2025 Bob Davids Award recipient
More highlights, photos from SABR 53 in Texas
Jason Schwartz, Ebenezer Olubayode win 2025 convention presentation awards
Lahman Database files now available for download
Call for papers: 2026 SABR Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference
In Memoriam: Dave Parker
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Tom Hufford, one of SABR’s original founding members, was announced as the winner of the Bob Davids Award during the SABR 53 Closing Ceremonies on Saturday, June 28 at the Westin DFW Airport Hotel in Irving, Texas.
The award — which is the Society’s highest honor — honors SABR members whose contributions to SABR and baseball reflect the ingenuity, integrity, and self-sacrifice of the founder and past president of SABR, L. Robert “Bob” Davids.
Hufford was a 21-year-old student at Virginia Tech when he learned about Bob Davids’s proposal for “statistorians” to develop an organization devoted to baseball research in 1971. When he called to inquire about the event, Bob offered to drive him to Cooperstown if he could make his way from Blacksburg to Washington, DC. Hufford shared his memories of the first organizational SABR meeting in a recent article for the Magnolia/Georgia Chapter newsletter.
Click here to view the full announcement at SABR.org.
Couldn’t make it to Texas for SABR 53? Check out more coverage of our 2025 convention from the Westin DFW Airport online:
For more coverage of SABR 53, visit SABR.org/convention.
At SABR 53 on Thursday, June 26, Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy was honored with the Roland Hemond Award, which recognizes a baseball executive who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to professional baseball scouts and scouting, and player development history. He was introduced by SABR Board President Dan Evans and Rangers President of Baseball Operations Chris Young.
“SABR is baseball’s conscience and compass,” Bochy said. “To be among the people who love the game as much as I do, it really is an honor for me. I look back and see what you do to help shape it, to study it, to preserve it, thank you for that.”
Click here to listen to audio highlights or read a transcript of Bochy’s remarks at SABR.org.
At SABR 53 on Thursday, June 26, Chris Young of the Texas Rangers delivered the Welcome Remarks in Irving, Texas.
Young is the President of Baseball Operations for the Texas Rangers and in his third full season as the club’s top baseball decision-maker. He joined the organization as Executive Vice President and General Manager in December 2020 and, after luring manager Bruce Bochy out of retirement, the Rangers won the first World Series championship in franchise history in 2023. The session was moderated by author and podcast host Rob Neyer.
Click here to listen to audio highlights at SABR.org.
Jason A. Schwartz has won the 2025 Doug Pappas Award for the best oral research presentation and Ebenezer Olubayode has won the SABR Convention Poster Presentation Award for the best poster presentation at SABR 53 in Texas.
Schwartz, co-chair of the SABR Baseball Cards Research Committee, won the Pappas Award for his presentation, “The ‘Savior’ Does Not Answer Letters: Dave Hoskins and the Uneven, Unheralded, and Unfinished Integration of the Texas League.”
Olubayode, who teaches fitness courses at the University of Oklahoma and works with the Sooners softball team, won the SABR Convention Poster Presentation Award for his poster, “Real-Time Biomechanical Feedback for Injury Prevention in Baseball Pitching.”
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
At the SABR 53 Closing Ceremonies in Texas, SABR recognized 20 regional chapters whose performance in the past year exceeded SABR’s standards.
Under the guidance of SABR’s Jessica Smyth, our 85 chapters continued working to further improve their operations by prescribing guidelines for governance, recruitment, research projects, and more.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
All articles from the new 2025 edition of The National Pastime can now be found online in the Research Collection at SABR.org.
All SABR 53 attendees received a souvenir print edition of The National Pastime, our annual convention journal, focusing on baseball in north Texas and the surrounding region. The e-book edition was sent out to all members last week.
We hope you enjoy reading The National Pastime!
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.
All SABR members are invited and encouraged to submit a Research Presentation Proposal Abstract on any topic of 19th-century baseball for the 2026 Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. The 17th annual Ivor-Campbell Conference is scheduled for April 24-25, 2026. The deadline for proposal Abstracts is October 31, 2025.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Dave Parker was one of the best players in the major leagues in the last half of the 1970s, a powerful slugger known as “The Cobra” whose cannon of an arm in right field might have been considered a more dangerous weapon than his bat.
Parker was a two-time batting champion, a three-time Gold Glove Award winner, and the National League’s Most Valuable Player in 1978 with the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1979, he won All-Star Game MVP honors — highlighted by two jaw-dropping assists from right field — and helped lead the Pirates to a World Series championship. He won another World Series with the Oakland Athletics in 1989, recording 339 home runs during his 19-year career from 1973 to 1991.
After failing to reach 75 percent of the vote from the baseball writers and three different veterans committees, Parker was finally elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Classic Era Committee in December 2024. But he died at the age of 74 on Saturday, June 28 — just one month before he was scheduled to be inducted in Cooperstown, New York.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Join us this summer for an unforgettable tribute to a San Francisco legend! SABR’s Lefty O’Doul Bay Area Chapter invites all baseball fans to a hometown hero celebration honoring Francis Joseph “Lefty” O’Doul, whose magnificent baseball grave monument has been fully restored at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in California.
Click here to watch a promo video, produced by filmmaker and SABR member Jon Leonoudakis.
The celebration will begin with the dramatic unveiling of Lefty’s newly restored monument — an impressive 6-foot, 5-inch tall tribute that truly captures the essence of this baseball icon. Afterward, the festivities move to nearby Molloy’s Tavern, where we’ll raise a glass to celebrate Lefty’s 128th birthday surrounded by fellowship, good cheer, and our shared passion for baseball—America’s beloved national pastime.
The renovation was possible thanks to funding from the SABR Local Grants Program and the San Francisco Giants.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
Anson Whaley was selected as the winner of the 2025 Jefferson Burdick Award, which honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the baseball card hobby, by SABR’s Baseball Cards Research Committee.
Whaley’s websites on early baseball cards — first at prewarcards.com from 2016 until its sale in 2024 and now at prewarcollector.com — have become the go-to source for checklists and information about pre-World War II card sets of all types and a repository of knowledge worthy of recognition.
Click here to read the full announcement at the SABR Baseball Cards Blog.
The Lahman Baseball Database, created by SABR member Sean Lahman, contains complete batting and pitching statistics back to 1871, plus fielding statistics, standings, team stats, managerial records, postseason data, and more.
Thanks to Bryan Walko for his efforts to produce this annual update. Lahman’s database allows baseball researchers to perform complex queries across the entire history of the game. This database contains complete batting and pitching statistics from 1871 to 2024, plus fielding statistics, standings, team stats, managerial records, postseason data, and more.
Visit SABR.org/lahman-database to learn more. Or click here to watch Sean Lahman’s presentation, “An Introduction to Baseball Databases,” for an overview of these files.
The SABR Board of Directors has appointed Tyrone Brooks to fill the vacant Director’s seat following Dan Evans’s election as Board President this spring. The SABR By-Laws provide that an open Director’s seat may be filled by the remaining Board members within 60 days by a 2/3 majority vote or the Board must call a special election. Brooks’s term expires at the end of the Annual Business Meeting at the 2026 SABR convention.
Brooks, who previously served on the SABR Board from 2019 to 2021, is the Senior Director of MLB’s Front Office & Field Staff Diversity Pipeline Program.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
In a bold move to transform the future of sports leadership and analytics, SABR announced a strategic partnership with Abilene Christian University’s Center for Sports Leadership and Learning during the SABR 53 convention in Irving, Texas.
The announcement was shared during a special Q&A session featuring SABR Chief Executive Officer Scott Bush and Dr. George Saltsman, provost at ACU Dallas. The partnership unites two organizations deeply committed to excellence in research, education and the advancement of sport through scholarship and innovation.
Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.
A SABR Institutional Membership is the perfect way to connect your group with baseball’s rich history. Whether you are supporting historical or analytical researchers or engaging with baseball fans in your community, SABR provides the network, tools, and expertise to enhance your offerings.
A SABR Institutional Membership is ideal for libraries, museums, and historical societies; high schools; and higher education departments, especially History, American Studies, and Sports Analytics programs.
Institutional Members receive unlimited access to SABR’s extensive collection of digital publications; exclusive research resources, including access to historical newspaper databases; engagement opportunities with SABR experts and a network of baseball historians and analysts.
To learn more, contact Paul J. Zwirecki for details on membership options and enrollment.
The SABR Biography Project needs your help! All baseball biographies submitted to the BioProject undergo rigorous editing, which includes initial vetting and editing, fact-checking, and copy editing. We are looking for volunteers for each of these stages.
These editors play an important role in the development of the bios and help ensure the high quality and critical acclaim of our research. While experience in editing and fact checking is helpful, it is not necessary. We encourage anyone interested to contact Rory Costello or Gregory H. Wolf for more details.
Minutes from the Board of Directors conference call on June 11 and the Annual Business Meeting on June 26, 2025 have now been posted on the SABR website.
Click here to view all past minutes of SABR Board meetings.
Find new updates to the SABR Research Collection below, including the Baseball Biography Project, Games Project, and Oral History Collection.
Visit SABR.org/gamesproject to learn more about the SABR Games Project or to get involved.
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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.
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Here are some SABR headlines from recent weeks that we don’t want you to miss:
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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 | ||
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| Eric Berinson | Cherry Hill, NJ | Philip Moscovitch | Glen Margaret, NS | ||
| Shayna Darwin | East Northport, NY | Joe Murphy | Marlton, NJ | ||
| Damien Edele | Manorville, NY | Dongjoon Park | Emeryville, CA | ||
| Sean Friedland | Basalt, CO | Daniel Raymond | Montesano, WA | ||
| Tim Garahan | Irving, TX | Tom Sperrazzo | Charlotte, NC | ||
| Mike Kennedy | Coeur d Alene, ID | John Yore | Olney, MD | ||
| Michael Landmann | Wilmington, DE | Mike Zarling | Minneapolis, MN | ||
| Chase Lau | West Windsor, NJ |
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Here is a list of SABR supporters for the month of June 2025.
| NAME | NAME | |
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| Robert Axelrod | Walter Long | |
| Jake Bell | Peter Mancuso | |
| Barry Bengtsson | Peter Marcus | |
| Maurice Bouchard | Justus Martin | |
| D. Bruce Brown | Daniel Massey | |
| Bruce Bumbalough | Bruce McClure | |
| Ralph Caola | Dennis McDonald | |
| Ken Carrano | Noel Milan | |
| A.A. Carrasco | Christopher Moyer | |
| Dan Cichalski | Jim Myers | |
| Karl Cicitto | Linda Nichols | |
| Vincent Comparato | Andrew North | |
| Peter Cottrell | Bill Nowlin | |
| Chris Dial | Jon Ohman | |
| Bob Dorrill | Michael Pagano | |
| Mark Drucker | John Rall | |
| Mark Dugo | Michael Rosenwasser | |
| Thomas Dunn | Charles Roussel | |
| Lisa Edmondson | Larry Rowe | |
| Helen Edwards | Bob Russon | |
| Jonathan Epstein | Edward Scahill | |
| Daniel Evans | Jason Scheller | |
| Rebecca Fields | Dan Schoenholz | |
| David Firstman | Douglas Schoppert | |
| Adam Foldes | Roger Selin | |
| Michael Gibbons | Mary Shea | |
| Robert Hamm | Rob Sheinkopf | |
| Frank Hart | Robert Shelton | |
| Leslie Heaphy | Blake Sherry | |
| Tim Herlich | Lynda Singer | |
| Rockwell Hoffman | Thomas Stone | |
| David Hughes | Wesley Story | |
| Kevin Hurd | Joseph Thompson | |
| Jeff Jaech | Neal Traven | |
| Rob Janes | Steve Weiss | |
| Donald Jensen | Steve West | |
| Mary Knox | Kat Williams | |
| Robert Komoroski | John Williams | |
| Thomas Larson | Beach Wires | |
| Leonard Levin | Jeffrey Wood | |
| Henry Levy | Don Zminda | |
| Timothy Liljeberg |
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