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April 3, 2025
Dear Peter:
An archive of nearly 100,000 self-completed surveys of professional baseball players, compiled over six decades by longtime SABR member William J. Weiss, is now available online in the SABR Research Collection at SABR.org/weiss-baseball-questionnaires.
The Weiss Baseball Questionnaires provide comprehensive information on dozens of future Hall of Famers such as Dick Allen, Wade Boggs, Bob Gibson, Tony Gwynn, Rickey Henderson, Reggie Jackson, and Ryne Sandberg, plus other notable baseball figures such as Dusty Baker, Billy Beane, Bruce Bochy, David Cone,Pete Rose, and Fernando Valenzuela.
Between 1945 and 2005, Weiss sent surveys each year to dozens of minor-league teams, asking each of their players to answer questions about their lives and baseball careers. In addition to biographical details, the forms also include such information as schools attended, signing scouts, offseason hobbies and jobs, memorable on-field experiences, and military service.
Weiss, who died in 2011, was one of SABR’s earliest members and a longtime statistician/historian for professional baseball leagues in California and throughout the United States. A large collection of Weiss’s research materials was donated to SABR’s San Diego Ted Williams Chapter and the San Diego Public Library in 2014.
Special thanks to Jason Sigler and Tiberiu Ungureanu, along with Steven Vogel, Maz Johnson, Amily Ancuelo, and John “Ivan” Pasquil, for their work in managing the Weiss Questionnaire digitization and transcription process. Thanks to Jason Best and Jacob Pomrenke for overseeing the database import.
Transcription volunteers included: Michael Bender, Karen Bent, Chris Betsch, Kurt Blumenau, Chip Bomyea, Patrick Brown, Chris Butts, Anne Chamberlain, Anne Enos, Stanley Enzweiler, Pat Filippone, John Gregory, Steve Hall, Kent Henderson, Jason Hendricks, Kim Juhase, Matt Karlak, Heather Kerrigan, David Klotz, Sheri Laufer, Scott Lehotsky, Mark McFadden, Chuck McGill, Abigail Misckowiec, Alan Morris, Dan Mueller, Rod Nelson, Bill Nowlin, Gregg Omoth, Aiden Presutti, Ruth Sadler, Venus Seno, Jaekuk Song, Alan Steinberg, Jerry Swenson, Dan Walsh, Donald Wiederecht, James Williams, Paul Winter, Brian Wood, Yusra Yavic, Izzet Yilmaz, and Greg Zeis.
ID matching volunteers included: Amily Ancuelo, David Bender, Dan Bergman, Cliff Blau, Deborah Bloom, Chip Bomyea, Chet Emerson, Thomas Emerson, John Gregory, Samantha Hare, Geoff Mills, Andrew Milner, Jack V. Morris, Tom Naylor, Rod Nelson, Ian Orr, John “Ivan” Pasquil, Jacob Pomrenke, Jason Sigler, Jerry Swenson, Tiberiu Ungureanu, Bob Wirz, and Betul Zenan.
Visit SABR.org/weiss-baseball-questionnaires to learn more about the Weiss Baseball Questionnaires.
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