The Pastime

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]