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Winter Squibber Now Available |
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Written by The Editor
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 12:34 |
Chapter members: check your email for the latest Squibber. This quarterly newsletter is available electronically to members. The deadline for material for the next newsletter is April 10, 2010. Submissions can be sent to Squibber editor Walt Cherniak at wcherniakjr@aol.com. Keep sending us those squibs, and those ideas for squibs!
CONTENTS – January 2010
1. SABR Day in America: Annual Chapter Meeting Leads Festivities, by D. Bruce Brown
2. Research Grants Available: Apply Now for Yoseloff-SABR Grants
3. The “Wrecking Crew of ’33” Comes Alive: New Book Recalls Washington’s Last Pennant Winners, by Jeff Stuart
4. Central Pennsylvania Report: News from Harrisburg, Lancaster and York, by Barry Sparks
5. A BioProject Update: Many Valuable Contributions From Bob Davids Chapter Members, by Jan Finkel
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Announcing Chapter Classifieds |
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Written by Jim Sweetman
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 18:28 |
The Bob Davids Chapter of SABR is adding a new service for its members–a twice-monthly classifieds e-mail.
You can use this to promote your baseball book, a baseball event or other stuff baseball-related (for example, the two ads below in this inaugural e-mail are looking for people to join a fantasy baseball league and a Nationals ticket group). This is how it will work:
By the 1st or 15th of each month, send your classified ad to SABRDavids@aol.com. The guidelines:
1) To be used by chapter members
2) Max 200 words, text only
3) Baseball-related ads only
4) There is no cost
The Chapter will send out the e-mail to all chapter members by within a few days of the cut-off. Members will only receive the e-mail ads clearly labeled as such.
Here are our first ads. Feel free to respond to them.
Six Decades of Baseball is the memoire that any long time baseball fan could have written and will certainly relate to. Based on nearly sixty years of baseball “fandom”, author Bill Lewers weaves a decade-by-decade narrative full of games, players, experiences, observations, and opinions - all the “stuff” that any baseball fan accumulates over a lifetime. If you are the sort of person who enjoys “talking baseball” with co-workers at the office or perfect strangers at the ball park, then this just might be a book that you would enjoy.
A more detailed description can be found at www.sixdecadesofbaseball.com.
Hi – this is Bob Kominski, fellow SABR member. For the past 25 years, a group of friends and I have participated in a statistical baseball league playing a game I developed. Simply explained, the game – Boxscore Baseball – pits teams against one another in a daily contest, and is scored by using the stats that appear in the daily box scores. A set of nine statistics, including hitting, pitching and fielding are used to determine the outcome of "innings" in each game. Teams are constructed over the winter in an 11-week blind auction process using $1 million of (virtual) assigned funds for each team. During the season, trades, free agents and waivers of reserve players allow owners the chance to change their teams. The auction for our 2010 season will begin January 18, and we are looking for a few new owners to play our statistically challenging game. If this brief description sounds interesting to you, please email me at and I’ll be happy to send you a set of rules so you can get a fuller understanding of the game.
We have a long-standing Nationals ticket group that is looking to fill the last share for 2010. We have two sets of seats: 4 club seats in the third row of Section 213 right behind the plate ($55 each), and 2 box seats in Section 117 ($50 each). These are just about the best seats in the ballpark in their price ranges and are better than you can get by getting your own ticket plan. A share is about 20 pairs of tickets and costs about $2000-$2200 and includes 20 coupons, each good for a free ticket in the box/club seats (essentially 50% extra tickets for free), and a half-share is 10 pairs of tickets and 10 coupons and runs about $1000-$1100. The tickets are allocated via a draft. If you want more information or you are interested, please contact Dave Raglin at or 703-835-1198.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 January 2010 12:38 |
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Written by Bruce Brown
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Saturday, 24 January 2009 13:00 |
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Our chapter is named after SABR’s late founder, L. Robert Davids, a Washingtonian. Click on his name on the left side of this page and read his very interesting biography.
The Bob Davids Chapter serves more than 500 SABR members in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and parts of Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia. Ours is the first, oldest, largest, and most active chapter of SABR, with 27 regular meetings every year in addition to the world-wide convention. This year, 2009, will make the fourth time we have hosted the convention. If we can do anything to make your SABR experience more enjoyable, please don’t hesitate to contact me (dbrucebrown@verizon.net) or any of our chapter’s officers.
In addition to the research that our members regularly do and meeting where we enjoy each other’s company, we also operate this web site, publish a quarterly newsletter and are involved in a variety of other baseball-related endeavors. There is no obligation to participate in these activities, but member volunteers are the lifeblood of our chapter and we enjoy a reputation as one of SABR’s very best.
Some of our activities include:
- Annual Chapter Meeting: Our meeting this year was Saturday, January 24 in Columbia, Maryland and was attended by a near-standing-room-only crowd and featured the Baltimore Sun beat writer for the Baltimore Orioles, Dan Connolly. Anchoring was our own David Smith founder of www.retrosheet.org with a summary of some of the more unusual questions that have been presented to him by the baseball media. He showed us the research he did before giving his now-famous answers. We have 130 in attendance. You can view some of the presentations on the List of Past Meetings under the CHAPTER INFO tab.
- Additional Regional meetings: We hold two additional large regional meetings each year, usually one at a major league park and one at a minor league park. In 2008, 84 of us gathered to help inaugurate the brand new Nationals Park where, so far, the tremendous fan-friendly features outnumber the home team victories. Our minor league meeting and game for 2009 will feature a visit to a park in its last season before remodeling, Riverside Stadium where we will watch the Harrisburg Senators on August 29.
- The Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles: We are regularly involved in activities with both major league teams in our area as well as a number of minor league teams. Some of our members are even employees of these teams. Among others, the president of the Nationals’ fan club and the official major league scorer at Nationals’ games are chapter members.
- FanFests: We operate a SABR booth and trivia contest at the annual Orioles FanFest, Bowie Baysox Open House, Harrisburg Senators FanFest and Washington Senators NatsFest. Contact: Dave Raglin (darags@ymail.com). For NatsFest, contact Scott Harrison (scotharr@erols.com). For Harrisburg FanFest, contact Ted Knorr (PapaBell@aol.com).
- Hot Stove Meetings: We hold monthly, informal, dinner meetings to talk baseball in an informal setting. Chili and chicken wings are usually featured. Contact: Dave Raglin (darags@ymail.com).
- SABRDavids: SABRDavids@aol.com is our e-mail distribution service that we use to inform our members of the latest chapter news or other relevant baseball news. This is in addition to electronic communiqués distributed through the national SABR office, so please don’t be offended if you received the same announcement twice, as the SABRDavids announcements also reach non-members.
- Talkin’ Baseball: This book and baseball discussion group was organized by chapter member Dave Paulson. We welcome members and non-members at its monthly sessions. The group convenes the second Saturday of each month in Columbia, Maryland. Contact Dave at (d2244p@yahoo.com ).
- “The Squibber”, the Chapter’s newsletter: We have a very interesting chapter newsletter, The Squibber. Contact editor Walt Cherniak (CherniakJrW@aetna.com). If you would like we can also send you a hard copy.
- National SABR Convention: Many of us attended the 38th annual national convention last summer in Cleveland. These are great events bristling with research presentations, camaraderie, awards, a major league game and a shared love of the national pastime. We are particularly excited about the 2009 convention, because we are the hosts! Click here to register.
- Media relations: We always need help getting the word out about our chapter’s activities. Contact: Mark Pattison (mpattison@catholicnews.com)
- Additional ideas: We’re always interested in your endeavors. If you have an idea or a suggestion, please don’t be shy. Once again, welcome to SABR and to the Bob Davids Chapter. We hope you enjoy being a SABR member as much as we do.
D. Bruce Brown, President dbrucebrown@verizon.net
Dave Raglin, Vice President darags@ymail.com
Don Seaman, Secretary dseaman4@csc.com
Dave Paulson, Treasurer d2244p@yahoo.com
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