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NEXT REGIONAL
MEETING:
SATURDAY,
AUGUST 7, 2004 at PETCO PARK
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Ted Williams Week-ends Planned at Cooperstown, NY
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Spalding Baseball Guides On-Line
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San Diego SABR’s Baseball Research Center (BRC): New
Acquisitions
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Ready to Volunteer? Photographers Needed for a New
Chapter Project: “A Day in the Life of Petco Park”
** REGIONAL MEETING **
Saturday, August 7, 2004
Petco Park
Through the courtesy of the Padres, our next regional meeting will be
held at Petco Park. Here are the
details:
ü Date: Saturday,
August 7, 2004
ü Time: 9:15
a.m.
ü Where: Petco Park Multi-Purpose Room;
it is located at 100 Park Boulevard adjacent to the main entrance to the Padres
Corporate Offices, and just north of the Imperial Avenue intersection
ü Line-up:
§
“Baseball Books
in Review” – hear about some recent books reviewed by members Ron Andreassi, David Kinney, and Andy McCue
§
“Baseball in San Diego, From the Padres to Petco” is the title of a new book authored by Bill Swank who will be on hand to give
you some historical highlights of San Diego’s professional baseball teams…books
will be available for purchase, and following his presentation Bill will be on
hand for a book signing for those of you who would like a copy
§
“Professional
Baseball in 2010” - Get a glimpse of where the
game is going by listening to MLB operation executives who are destined to be
future leaders of the game. Subjects - talent pool, drugs, global play,
free agency, specialization, scouting and, of course, the DH…in addition to any
questions you might have. Member Dan Boyle will be the moderator of a
panel of three Padres executives: Juan Lara (Assistant to the Director of
Player Development), Jeff Kingston (Director, Baseball Operations) and Gilly
Reckler.
§
At the conclusion of the meeting (we are aiming for
around 12 noon) a special behind
the scenes Petco Park tour will be offered for all attendees
TED WILLIAMS WEEKENDS
Cooperstown, NY
September 11-12, 2004, and
Memorial Day Week-end 2005
Please make a note on your calendar for two planned TED
WILLIAMS WEEKENDS to be held Saturday,
September 11, and Sunday, September 12, 2004 and the Memorial
Day weekend this coming spring, 2005, at the National
Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
Bill
Nowlin bnowlin@rounder.com will
be the event coordinator, and will be working in collaboration with Jeff Arnett
of the Hall of Fame.
Bill
has an open invitation to all Chapter members: “We hope that you will be able
to participate in some way, shape or form. Right now the weekends have no
defined structure, so ideas are most welcome. If you might be able
to attend, please think about ways in which you might like to participate and
what you might feel most comfortable about contributing. Everyone is, of course, welcome to come to one or
the other, or do as I plan to do: come to both.
“It is
my hope that we will be able to present in a number of media, ranging from the
presentation of papers to the showing of film footage of Ted Williams in
action. Papers that are presented will be considered for a probable
post-weekend publication. Please think of topics which you might like to
address.
“Your
input will help shape the weekend, so please take this as an initial invitation
to either ‘think big’ and maybe come up with an inspired idea or two, or to ‘think
small’ and suggest a defined topic on which you might like to write. Thanks
very much.”
SPALDING BASE BALL GUIDES
1889-1939
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WEB SITE
The Spalding
Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939, are now available via the American Memory Project
and the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/spaldinghtml/spaldinghome.html
Their site
indicates the following: "Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939 comprises a
historic selection of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide and the Official
Indoor Base Ball Guide. The collection reproduces 35 of the guides, which were
published by the Spalding Athletic Company in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide was perhaps the
premier publication of its day for the game of baseball. It featured editorials
from baseball writers on the state of the game, statistics, photographs, and
analysis of the previous season for all the Major League teams and for many of
the so-called minor leagues across the nation."
BASEBALL RESEARCH CENTER…
NEW ACQUISITIONS
Baseball Resources at San Diego Public
Library
New Acquisitions
in Central Library and Branches, January-March 2004
Compiled by Vic Cardell, Art, Music &
Recreation Section
All holdings are at Central Library unless noted
otherwise.
Baseball: A Doubleheader Collection of Facts, Feats & Firsts. New York: Galahad Books, 1992. Call Number: R796.357/BASEBALL
Baseball Register. St. Louis, Mo. : Sporting News, 2004. Call Number: R796.357/BASEBALL 2004
Bergen, Philip S. Baseball Research Journal Ten-Year Index. Alexandria, Va.: Society for American Baseball Research, 1982. Call Number: R796.357/BERGEN Bevis, Charlie. Sunday Baseball: The Major Leagues' Struggle to Play Baseball on the Lord's Day, 1876-1934. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003. Call Number: 796.35764/BEVIS Bryan, Mike. Baseball Lives: Men and Women of the Game Talk about Their Jobs, Their Lives, and the National Pastime. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990. Call Number: 796.357/BRYAN (Central & Branch Libraries) 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 only) Gould, Stephen Jay. Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball. New York: W.W. Norton, c2003. Call Number: 796.35702/GOULD (Central & Branch Libraries) Deadball Era Committee, Society for American Baseball Research. Deadball Stars of the National League. Dulles, Va.: Brassey's, 2004. Call Number: R796.357/DEADBALL Epting, Chris. Roadside Baseball: Uncovering Hidden Treasures from our National Pastime. St. Louis, MO: Sporting News Books, 2003. Call Number: 796.35709/EPTING (Branch Libraries only) Freundlich, Larry, ed. Reaching for the Stars: A Celebration of Italian Americans in Major League Baseball. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. Call Number: 796.357/REACHING Harrison, Ben. Official Visit: A Guide to College and Professional Baseball Recruiting. Bloomington, IN: 1stBooks Library, 2002. Call Number: 796.357/HARRISON Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. Me and DiMaggio: A Baseball Fan Goes in Search of His Gods. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. Call Number: 796.35709/LEHMANN Lomax, Michael E. Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Call Number: 796.35764/LOMAX (Central & Branch Libraries) Masur, Louis P. Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Call Number: 796.35764/MASUR Nathan, Daniel A. Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Call Number: 796.35764/NATHAN Nemec, David et al. Players of Cooperstown: Baseball's Hall of Fame. Lincolnwood, Ill.: Publications International, 1994. Call Number: 796.357/PLAYERS (Branch Libraries only) Overfield, Joseph M. The 100 Seasons of Buffalo Baseball. Kenmore, N.Y.: Partners' Press, 1985. Call Number: R796.35764/OVERFIELD Patterson, Harry. The Baseball Wiz Trivia Quiz. Saddle River, N.J.: Red-Letter Press, 2001. Call Number: 796.357/PATTERSON Rose, Pete. My Prison without Bars. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, 2004. Call Number: B/ROSE (Central & Branch Libraries) Ryan, Bob. When Boston Won the World Series: A Chronicle of Boston's Remarkable Victory in the First Modern World Series of 1903. Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 2003. Call Number: 796.35764/RYAN Selzer, Jack. Baseball in the Nineteenth Century: An Overview. Cooperstown, NY: Society for American Baseball Research, 1986. Call Number: R796.357/SELZER This Date in Baseball History. Cooperstown, N.Y.: Society for American Baseball Research, 1982. Call Number: R796.357/THIS
Wood, Stephen C. and J. David Pincus, eds. Reel Baseball: Essays and Interviews on the National Pastime, Hollywood, and American Culture. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003. Call Number: 791.43655/REEL
JOIN US IN A NEW CHAPTER
PROJECT
* * *
“A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PETCO
PARK”
We are looking for volunteers to help with a photographic summary of a
baseball game at Petco Park, along with all of the other things that go on,
before the game, during it, and after it is complete. Our Chapter’s Steering Committee has authorized this project to
culminate in a Chapter publication.
The idea for the project comes from SABR’s recently published The Fenway Project. Our Chapter’s “Facets of the Game” from 1998
served as inspiration for The Fenway
Project, and now we want to go one up with this project. The
Fenway Project included interesting stories offered by SABR members but we
also noticed there were various photos, all taken by various amateur
contributors, that told an interesting story in themselves.
So, your Steering Committee has decided to carry out a project that
would result in a chapter publication that comprises all photos (with captions)
that would complement our “facets” report but instead provide a photo record
from before the game starts, until some time after. In other words, the
“facets” of the game but in pictures.
Project Date and
“Rules”. We have decided to do the
project on Sunday, September 5th, a 1:05 p.m. start against the Colorado
Rockies. We invite all of our chapter members to participate. The rules for participation will be simple:
Possible Subjects. Some of the subject areas we have thought of
include:
The book could be compiled chronologically, or by subject. With
digital photography this becomes a relatively low cost project, and a lot
simpler than the writing exercise we went through in 1998. To do it
right we hope to have 12-15 participants (the more the merrier).