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Society for American Baseball Research

The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball, primarily through the use of statistics. The organization was founded in Cooperstown, New York, on August 10, 1971, at a meeting of 16 “statistorians” coordinated by sportswriter Bob Davids.[2] The organization now reports a membership of over 7,500 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

This article is about the baseball history organization. For baseball statistical analysis, see Sabermetrics. For other uses, see SABR (disambiguation).

Abbreviation

SABR

August 10, 1971 (1971-08-10)

555 N Central Ave #416
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.

Baseball research

7,194[1]

Scott Bush

Mark Armour

Research Committees study a particular issue

Regional Chapters link members by proximity. The latter are frequently named after baseball personalities relevant to their region.

Publications[edit]

The Baseball Research Journal (BRJ) is SABR's flagship publication since 1972 for members to publish and share their research with like-minded students of baseball. The National Pastime is an annual, published from 1982 to 2008 as The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History, when it was intended as a more literary outlet than the stats oriented BRJ; since 2009 it is a convention-focused journal, with articles about the geographic region where the convention is taking place that year.[10] Other Society publications are an increasing variety of books (since 1976) and ebooks (since 2011);[11] 8–10 new e-books published annually are all free to members.[12]

[13] Award: for exceptional SABR members who have made contributions to SABR and baseball that reflect ingenuity, integrity, and self-sacrifice. It is SABR's highest honor, and was established in 1985.[14]

Bob Davids

Award: for baseball researchers—historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists.[15][16][17]

Henry Chadwick

Seymour Medal: best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year.[19][20][21][22][23][24]

[18]

-SABR Baseball Research Award: for authors of the best articles on baseball history or biography completed during the preceding calendar year (published or unpublished).[25]

McFarland

-SABR Baseball Research Award: for projects which do not fit the criteria for The Seymour Medal or the McFarland-SABR Award.

Sporting News

Jerry Malloy Book Prize: best book-length nonfiction manuscript submitted by a member of SABR.

[24]

Research Award: best oral research presentation at the Annual Convention.

Doug Pappas

Award: for the best baseball research project at the annual National History Day competition.

Lee Allen

Jack Kavanagh Memorial Youth Baseball Research Award: research paper by a researcher in grades 6–8 (middle school category), grades 9–12 (high school category), or undergraduates 22 and under (College Category).

SABR annual awards include:


In 2013, SABR began collaborating with Rawlings on the Gold Glove Award.[26] Rawlings changed the voting process to incorporate SABR Defensive Index, a sabermetric component provided by SABR, which accounts for approximately 25 percent of the vote for the defensive award.[27]

Baseball statistics

Retrosheet

Esurance MLB Awards

Professional Football Researchers Association

Lewis, Michael (2004). Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Norton.  0-393-32481-8.

ISBN

Ross, Ken (2004). . Plume. ISBN 978-0-452-28782-2.

A Mathematician at the Ballpark: Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans

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