IN THIS ISSUE:
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January 31, 2004
Regional Meeting Recap
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3rd Annual San Diego SABR Boynton Baseball
Research Award…Deadline for Submittals is April 21, 2004
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SABR Music and Poetry Committee Newsletter
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TBI…The Baseball Index
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SABR Ballpark Committee Newsletter
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Buffalo Bison Scrapbooks Available
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Baseball Magazine
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Retro Ballparks
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San Diego SABR Baseball Research Center—New Acquisitions
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SABR Pictorial History Committee Newsletter
REGIONAL MEETING
RECAP
On January 31, 2004, with 40 people in attendance we held
our annual Super Bowl Saturday winter meeting at “The Kid’s” old stomping
grounds, San Diego’s Hoover High School.
Dennis Donley, school librarian, hosted the meeting and provided guests a
look at school newspapers, scrapbooks and other memorabilia from Williams’s
1934-36 period at Hoover. The annual
senior trek to the top of the school tower, concluded by signing a class book,
showed that Williams’s signature changed little over the years.
Leading off the program was Padres President and CEO Dick
Freeman, introduced by long-time friend of Dick’s, Andy Strasberg. Dick’s
general theme was around the combination of a new ballpark and an improved team
which have San Diego Padres management and local fans excited about the upcoming
2004 season.
Next up Matthew Shugart gave a summary of his
research on “Is Home Field Advantage in the World Series ‘Everything’?” Examining best-of-seven series, his research
showed that the home team has won games 1, 3, and 6 more than 60% of the time,
but other games only around half the time.
Third in the day’s line-up was Bill Swank who gave a personal biography of the late San Diegan, Catcher
Johnny Ritchey, who played with the PCL Padres in 1948-49, being the first to
break the PCL color barrier. He ended
his career with Syracuse in 1956 with minor league batting average of .302. Amy
Essington followed with a related update on her dissertation research into the "Integration of the
Pacific Coast League."
Emeritus
member Bob Boynton was next with a
presentation on “Al Autry: A One-Game Starter and Winner.” Bob’s research “universe” began with 952
one-game players all-time, then eventually narrowed down to 86 one-game
starting pitchers since 1900, to 24 of those still living today, and finally only
two of those who won their games: Al Autry in 1976 and Claussen Brandon in 2003
(who may break out of this “club” in 2004).
Wrapping
up the program was a lively “Books in Review” which involved personal reviews of
11 new baseball books by four members: Dan
Boyle, Bob Boynton, Tom Larwin, and Frank Myers.
3rd ANNUAL
BOYNTON BASEBALL RESEARCH
AWARDS --
PAPERS INVITED
Do you know of some high school student with an interest in baseball? Perhaps you have a high school student in your family? Named after one of our Chapter’s founding members, Bob Boynton, San Diego County high school students (grades 9-12) are invited to submit baseball research essays for the 2003 Boynton Baseball Research Awards. The first prize award is a cash honorarium of $250. A $100 cash honorarium will be awarded for second prize. The award is sponsored by our Chapter and seeks to recognize excellence in academic research on the subject of baseball.
The academic research shall be completed and the report received by April 21, 2004. The suggested length for the report should be 1500 to 3000 words, excluding notes and bibliography. It must be submitted in hard copy, double-spaced in 12-point font on 8.5” x 11” plain white paper. The report should also be submitted on a 3.5-inch disk.
Mail your submissions (hard-copy essay and disk) to Boynton Baseball Research Awards, 3104 4th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103. If you have any questions, please e-mail arnewton@cox.net .
Music to your ears!
MUSIC & POETRY COMMITTEE…
NEWSLETTER
Attached is the latest Music & Poetry Committee Newsletter.
All Music & Poetry Committee and SABR members
are encouraged to join the baseball music and poetry discussion group. To join, follow this link: sabrmusicandpoetry-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
For
a view of their newsletter click on this:
We Have News for You!
TBI…THE BASEBALL INDEX
From: Ted Hathaway sabrtbi@MN.RR.COM
SABR
Members:
The
Baseball Index (TBI) is a SABR product created entirely through the work of
volunteers. It is freely available for
searching at: http://www.baseballindex.org
This
website was created by Daniel M. Levine & Co. and funded by the generous
contributions of individual members. Work
on building the database began in 1992 and it now references over 200,000
books, articles, documents, poems, advertisements, cartoons, songs, and other
materials, from recent publications back to the earliest references to
baseball's direct antecedents.
TBI is an
INDEX - it does not contain the full-text of the sources it references. The purpose of the Index is to guide you to
the sources about your research topic, whether it be baseball in WWII, the New
York Gothams of the 1860s, the Black Sox Scandal, or Tug McGraw. You may search the Index by a person's name,
topic words, title words, or copyright year.
You may also combine these different names, terms and concepts.
Your
search results will give you a variety of information about your sources,
including basic information about the nature of the content. For example:
Title: Bob
Feller Fans Seven in Debut For Bluejackets
Author(s):
Copyright Date: 1945
Issue Date: April 28
Source: Stars and Stripes Weekly (Mediterranean Edition)
Volume: 2
Issue Number: 73
Pages: 7(1)
Photos: n
Statistics: n
Named People: Feller, Bob
Topics: Game Accounts; Military Baseball; Great Lakes Naval
Training Station; 1945
Notes: brief article
The
Baseball Index by no means covers everything, but it contains a great deal of
information and is an excellent starting point for any baseball research
project. Give it a try!
Ted Hathaway, Project
Co-Director
The
Baseball Index, Society for American Baseball Research
SABR Ballpark Committee
Newsletter
Attached as a .pdf file is the SABR Ballparks Committee February 2004 Newsletter.
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open. Please let me know if you have any problems accessing the
file.
Bob Bluthardt rfvcblue@wcc.net
Chair,
SABR Ballparks Committee
BUFFALO BISONS SCRAPBOOKS
This is a note from Bill Swank:
I have 4 Buffalo Bison scrapbooks…Bob
Dreher made them in the early 1980s and he wants to give them to a SABR
member. If somebody wants them, all
they have to do is pay for the postage.
If interested in them, please contact
Bill directly at WGSwank@ezsg.com
BASEBALL MAGAZINE
From Ted
Hathaway: As many of you may know, the
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles has been gradually digitizing the
full-text/full-image of Baseball Magazine issues and making them freely
searchable on their website: http://www.aafla.org/search/search_frmst.htm
The AAFLA staff have been using issues from
their own collections, but they are missing some issues. Wayne Wilson, the head librarian and
director of the digitization effort, is asking for baseball literature
collectors to copy pages or lend some issues from 1920 and 1921 to be digitized.
Specifically, they need pages and/or issues from 1920-21. If you would like to help, please contact
Wayne Wilson at the AAFLA: wwilson@aafla.org
or (323) 730-4646.
The AAFLA now houses one of the finest sports
collections of any library in the world. Their digitization efforts in recent
years have been a boon to sports researchers.
Your generosity would be much appreciated.
Ted
Hathaway sabrtbi@MN.RR.COM
(on behalf of Wayne Wilson an the AAFLA)
RETRO BALLPARKS
Stampede
toward retro ballparks began in minor leagues
A March 20th
article in our local North County Times
presented an interesting view of the new ballparks being developed after the
opening of Oriole Park Camden Yards in Baltimore. Here is their introduction: “The lines are easy to draw from
Petco Park in San Diego to San Francisco, east toward Denver, Cleveland and
eventually to Baltimore. When one traces the heritage of the modern ballpark,
each new stadium spurs comparisons that lead back to the city on the Patapsco
River. Twelve years ago, Baltimore
ushered major-league baseball into a prosperous new era with the opening of
Oriole Park at Camden Yards.”
For more
of this story, click on or type the URL below:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/03/21/sports/professional/3_20_0422_24_57.txt
BASEBALL RESEARCH CENTER…
NEW ACQUISITIONS
Baseball Resources at San Diego Public
Library
New Acquisitions
in Central Library and Branches, October-December 2003
Compiled by Vic Cardell, Art, Music &
Recreation Section
All holdings are at Central Library and branch
libraries unless noted otherwise.
BOOKS
Angell, Roger. Game Time: A Baseball Companion. Orlando: Harcourt, 2003. Call Number: 796.357/ANGELL Baldassaro, Lawrence, ed. Ted Williams: Reflections on a Splendid Life. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. Call Number: R B/WILLIAMS Bouton, Jim. Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark. North Egremont, MA: Bulldog, 2003. Call Number: 796.357/BOUTON Brashler, William. Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.Call Number: R B/GIBSON Cluck, Bob. How to Hit, How to Pitch: A Complete Self-Coaching System for Winning Baseball. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1995. Call Number: 796.35726/CLUCK (Branch libraries) Cochrane, Mickey. Baseball: The Fans' Game. Cleveland, OH: SABR, 1992. Call Number: 796.35764/COCHRANE (Central Library) Cottrell, Robert C. The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Call Number: R B/FOSTER Craft, David. The Negro Leagues: 40 Years of Black Professional Baseball in Words and Pictures. New York: Crescent Books, 1993. Call Number: R 796.357/CRAFT Dickson, Paul. The Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of our National Pastime. New York: Walker, 2003. Call Number: 796.3572/DICKSON Gould, Stephen Jay. Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. Call Number: 796.35702/GOULD Idea Logic Co. The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Baseball Quizzes. New York: Sterling, 1999. Call Number: 796.35709/LITTLE (Central Library) Johnson, Daniel E. Japanese Baseball: A Statistical Handbook. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1999. Call Number: R 796.357/JOHNSON (Central Library) Kahn, Roger. October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2003.Call Number: 796.35764/KAHN Loverro, Thom. The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball. New York, NY: Facts on File, 2003. Call Number: R 796.35764/LOVERRO Mankoff, Robert, and Michael Crawford, ed. The New Yorker Book of Baseball Cartoons. Princeton, NJ: Bloomberg Press, 2003. Call Number: 741.5973/NEW (Central Library) Society for American Baseball Research, comp. Minor League Baseball Stars: Career Records. Cooperstown, N.Y.: The Society, 1984-. Call Number: R 796.35764/MINOR vols. 1-3 (Central Library) Vincent, David W., ed. Home Runs in the Old Ballparks: Who Hit the First, the Last, and the Most Round-Trippers in our Former Major League Parks, 1876-1994. Cleveland, OH: SABR, 1995. Call Number: R 796.35726/HOME (Central Library) Voigt, David Quentin. America through Baseball. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976. Call Number: R 797.09/VOIGT
AUDIO
Berra, Yogi. Ten Rings: [My Championship Seasons]. New York: Harper Audio, 2003. Call Number: AC B/BERRA Lewis, Michael. Moneyball: [The Art of Winning an Unfair Game]. New York: Random House Audio, 2003. Call Number: CD 796.35706/LEWIS
CALIFORNIA ROOM
Ballpark and Redevelopment Project Documents. [San Diego, Calif.: City of San Diego, 2000]. Call Number: RCC 796.357/BALLPARK (Central Library)
SABR PICTORIAL HISTORY
COMMITTEE NEWSLETTER
Bill
Hickman, Chair Cary Smith, Vice Chair
7 Columbia Court Box 271, Spray Island
Rockville, MD 20850 Spring Park, MN 55384
301-424-6314 952-471-9357
bdhickmn@aol.com
zinnbeck@aol.com
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NEW BALLPARK PHOTO PROJECT LAUNCHED
The Ballpark Committee and the Pictorial History Committee have
started a joint project to develop a Ballpark Photo Index. Its ultimate scope
will include more than major league ballparks, but we will restrict it to
current and former major league stadiums for the time being.
Like the Player Image Index, this Excel data base will consist of
pointers towards available photos, rather than inclusion of digitized forms of
the photos themselves. When a photo of a ballpark is found, we seek to record
the following information about it in the Ballpark Photo Index:
1. City Where Ballpark is/was Located
2. State Where Ballpark is/was Located
3. Name of Park
4. Home Team
5. Location of Picture (used only in
the case of a library, museum, or private collection)
6. Identity of Publication, Photo, or
Postcard (In the case of a book, please give name of book and author; In the
case of a postcard, please give the postcard identification number and type,
e.g. standard chrome, continental chrome, jumbo, pre-linen, linen, mechanical,
metallic)
7. Issue Date for Publication
8. Page Number within Publication
9. Caption Associated with Photo
10. Shot Kind (e.g. the front entrance
to the park, a broad sweep of the outside of the park, aerial view of the
outside, aerial view of the inside, view towards the outfield, view towards the
stands behind the plate, view of the grandstands along the sides, and special
characteristic of the park, e.g. The Green Monster in Fenway).
11. Color vs. B&W
12. Data Input By
13. Found for this Project By
14. Update Date
Credit will be given in each data record to the person who found
and reported the photo to this project. Paul Healey has agreed to head this project. He may be reached at paulhealey@yahoo.com . Please participate in this project by contacting Paul and
offering to catalogue the ballpark photos which you may have in your
collections or in baseball books in your libraries.
BALLPARK PHOTO WEBSITES
For those who do not participate in the SABR-L List Serv, you may
want to be aware of a recent thread which introduced us to some websites which
feature ballpark photos. The websites
are listed below, along with the names of the SABR members who posted the
website addresses on SABR-L.
http://www.ballparkdigest.com (posted by Kevin Reichard)
http://www.mwlguide.com/cities/parks.html
(posted by Joel Dinda)
http://www.digitalballparks.com/ (posted by Joel Dinda)
http://members.aol.com/charliezeb/stadiums.htm
(posted by Joel Dinda)
http://www.minorleagueballparks.com
/ (posted by Joel
Dinda)
Plus a link to other webpages containing ballpark photos:
http://www.minorleagueballparks.com/links.html
(posted by
Joel Dinda)
An email message from SABR member Bruce Adams conveyed an additional ballpark website. It is: http://www.baseballparks.com