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| SABR Wiffle Ball |
| 2008-06-28 22:00:57 |
To cap off SABR 38, roughly 15 of us went out to Public Square in downtown Cleveland for a game of Wiffle Ball.
It was epic.
Among the players were myself, Kyle Eliason, Kerry Smith, Aaron Gleeman, Ben Jacobs, some Minnesotans whose names I’ve forgotten (sorry), and a few other SABR members.
After about five minutes, some local [...]...
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| SABR 38 Day Three: Stats, Stats, Stats |
| 2008-06-28 17:01:25 |
David Smith, the wonderful man who gave the world Retrosheet, just gave a nice presentation about the importance of strike one. It was the second part of a study he started at last year’s convention in St. Louis, and just as stuffed with interesting info and just as interesting.
As it turns out, it’s really bad [...]...
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| SABR 38 Day Three: Mark Shapiro & Mike Veeck |
| 2008-06-28 15:16:46 |
Sitting in the auditorium before Mark Shapiro and Mike Veeck were due to speak, I ran into a couple entertaining SABR members. Howie Siegel (Victoria, BC) and Joel Schwartz (Del Mar, Calif.) are two of the more animated guys I’ve ran across at the convention, and we had a nice chat ranging from elementary school [...]...
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| SABR 38 Day Three: A Film, Some Authors, and Tornado Damage Back Home |
| 2008-06-28 12:50:53 |
This morning, SABR members were treated to a special screening of a new documentary. “Base Ball Discovered” is a production of MLB, and goes into the origins of the game. As they were filming in England, the producers unearthed a new document that helps push back the origins of baseball to an astoundingly early date [...]...
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| Japanese Barnstorming in North America, Including Nebraska |
| 2008-06-27 15:18:40 |
Another presentation I watched at SABR 38 was about the 1935 barnstorming tour of the Tokyo Giants. The baseball team toured North America in the summer of ‘35, playing over 100 games over the course of 120 days. They went 74-31-1 playing minor-league, semi-pro and club teams from the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Of interest to [...]...
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| SABR 38 Day Two: Steroid Statistics, and Does Cleveland Really Rock? |
| 2008-06-27 14:27:23 |
The first presentation I went to today was the analysis of steroid use in baseball by Jeff Swtichenko of Emory University. Switchenko was one of the under-30 members at last night’s meeting.
Emory’s biostatistics department put together a dense, thorough study of the collective effect of steroid abuse on performance in the “steroid era.”
It’s a very [...]...
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| Former Player Panel at SABR 38 |
| 2008-06-27 13:49:14 |
The player panel started out with a bit of a disappointment, since Len Barker couldn’t make it due to a prior engagement.
The former Indians players that did make it were Joe Charboneau, Dave Burba, Kevin Rhomberg and Vern Fuller.
As is so often true, the first few questions asked were awkward and embarrassing. The first question [...]...
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| Under 30 at SABR, Baseball-Reference Partnership?, SABR 39 in the ATL |
| 2008-06-26 22:09:26 |
I just returned from the first Under-30 group meeting at the convention, and it was sure nice to meet up with other people my own age that are as fascinated by baseball as I am.
There were eight others there, from locations as diverse as Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Illinois and New Jersey. Ok, [...]...
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| Vintage Base Ball at SABR |
| 2008-06-26 19:11:07 |
I just got back from the Wade Park Oval here in Cleveland, where I had a chance to play in the vintage 1860 rules Base Ball game. I’ve got to say, it was a blast. A big thanks goes out to Ed Shuman, of the Canal Fulton Mules, for getting me into the lineup for [...]...
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| Bonds Protest at SABR: Ridiculous. |
| 2008-06-26 14:23:43 |
There’s a protest scheduled today at SABR to try and convince people that there’s a conspiracy to “blacklist” Barry Bonds from baseball.
First off, that’s ridiculous.
Secondly, I’ll show you why.
Here’s what we know. Barry Bonds cannot play the outfield, but can probably still hit fairly well. That eliminates the 16 National League teams from his potential [...]...
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