Larry Tye is the author of the best-selling biography of Satchel Paige. An avid baseball fan, Larry now runs a Boston-based training program for medical journalists. Everyone who has read his work knows he will give us an interesting and lively discussion about one of baseball’s most enduring characters and greatest pitchers of all time.

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Bill Monbouquette, a pitcher for the Red Sox from 1958 to 1965, will also be here. Need we say more? Bill has the reputation of being a no-nonsense guy who tells it like it is. He has attended meetings before and we look forward to hearing is take on baseball, then and now.

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Fernando Perez is not your run-of-the-mill professional athlete. A speedy outfielder who made his big-league debut in early September 2008 and went on to play in both the ALCS and World Series. He appeared in 18 games for the Rays after missing much of the campaign with a wrist injury. The 25-year-old New Yorker is not only a big part of the Rays’ future, he also holds a degree in American Studies and Creative Writing from Columbia University. He sat down with Boston Chapter co-chair David Laurila in September 2008  to talk about his views on both baseball and life.

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Bob Brady of Boston Braves Historical Association on Braves Field.

Sons of Sam Horn thread on the event is here.

The Boston Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research announces their Hot Stove Winter Meeting on Monday, January 18, 2010, 11am to 4pm at The Baseball Tavern, second floor meeting room, 1270 Boylston Street, Boston – one block from Fenway Park. Once again we have a stellar lineup of presentations by an all-star cast.

DATE: Monday, January 18, 2010
TIME: 11 AM to 4:30 PM
LOCATION: The Baseball Tavern,
1270 Boylston Street, Boston  MAP

There will also be the lunch buffet for $10 provided by The Tavern. Please let us know if you are interested so I can provide the cook with a head count. A $5 donation to help defray meeting costs is humbly requested.  We also have received a donation of books for the raffle from our compadres to the south. The Southern New England  Chapter has kindly given us three boxes of high quality baseball reading material, so bring your donations to add to the inventory and plan on returninghome a few new ones as well. We have a few time slots available for Ten-Minute Presentations. Let me know if you are interested.
Stay tuned for more information as it become available. The meeting looks to be a one-day Hot Stove League Convention extraordinaire. We hope you can be there on January 18 –  the birthday of 36 players,  including Curt Flood, Charlie Eden, Pinky May and Eddie Moore  who played 54 games for the Boston Braves in 1926.
All we are unable to come up with is the ghost of Babe Ruth – keep in mind that January 20 is the 90th anniversary of his departure from Boston to New York – and we all know the rest of the story.

If you have not been to a meeting at The Tavern, be advised that it is located one block from Fenway Park. There are parking lots in the area, or it is otherwise advised to take public transportation as the best way to get there. The Tavern is nearest the Kenmore or Fenway stations on the Green Line.

Welcome to the new home page of SABR Boston chapter. This is the local Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research. The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) was established in Cooperstown, New York in August, 1971. Our mission is to foster the study of baseball past and present, and to provide an outlet for educational, historical and research information about the game.

We invite you to browse the resources available on our site, including list of Boston Chapter members books, websites and projects.

If you are interested in joining SABR or the SABR Boston Chapter, go to the national site. If you would like to attend a meeting (you need not be a member, though we highly recomemend you join), check back on the "Chapter News" section of this site to find out when the next meeting is scheduled. The Boston chapter is a very active chapter, we get together for a chapter meeting few times a year, and have casual meet ups. A formal chapter meeting  typically features a guest speaker and a program of prepared presentations by members, lunch and raffle. We've had such guest speakers as: BIll James, Jerry Trupiano, and Joe Morgan in the past few years to name a few.

The Boston Chapter, most often convenes at The Baseball Tavern, 1270 Boylston Stree, Boston. That is right across the Boylston Street from Gate B of the Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. We have also convened at McGreevey's, Friends Meeting in Cambridge, Boston Public Library, Fenway Park, and Boston University. See more in the "past events" section.