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Summer Regional Meeting Highlights
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Nathan Hicks--Boynton
Research Award Winner for 2004
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MARK IT DOWN--NEXT REGIONAL MEETING is on Saturday,
February 5, 2005
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Jerry Coleman A Candidate for Ford C. Frick Baseball
Announcer Award—VOTE! (by November 30th)
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SABR Deadball Era Committee Newsletter “The Inside
Game”
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San Diego SABR Baseball Research Center--Recent
Acquisitions
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Need A Scorecard?
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HR Hitters: Records Are Meant To Be Broken
SUMMER REGIONAL MEETING
HIGHLIGHTS
Our summer regional
meeting was held on Saturday, August 7th at Petco Park. Our
Padres-Chapter liaison Tim Katzman (Padres Director of Corporate
Communications) came through and was able to make their Community Room
available for our meeting.
The meeting led off with a “Books in Review” presented by member David Kinney. With an ample supply of related stories, he covered these four books:
o Snyder, Brad, Beyond the Shadow of the Senators. New York, NY: Contemporary Books, 2003. “This is an extraordinarily rich book on the Negro Leagues and the integration of baseball focusing on the Homestead Grays.”
o Fetter, Henry D., Taking on the Yankees. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. “An interesting look at how baseball teams have tried to compete with the Yankees from 1903-2003.”
o Bradford, Rob, Chasing Steinbrenner. Herndon, VA: Brasseys, 2004. “Brand new book that views last season through the eyes of Theo Epstein’s Boston Red Sox and the J.P. Ricciardi’s Toronto Blue Jays. Obviously related to Taking on the Yankees.“
o Ziegel, Vic and Gulberger, Claus (editors), Summer in the City. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004. “Great, great photographs of New York baseball 1947-1957 from New York Daily News…a wonderful book.
Next up was author and baseball historian, Bill Swank, who presented tidbits from his new book Baseball in San Diego, From Padres to Petco. He also announced that he has another one in the works that will cover the period in San Diego from the 1800s until the NL Padres.
As further noted in the story below, we presented the 2004 Boynton Baseball Research Award to Nathan Hicks. The award was presented by Committee chair Jay Walker. In addition to Jay, serving on this year’s Evaluation Committee were: Anna Newton, Tim Katzman (Padres), Bob Boynton, Vic Cardell, and Jim Esterbrooks (County Schools).
Capping our formal program was a panel discussion on the subject of “Professional Baseball in 2010” moderated by Dan Boyle. Padres management representatives on the panel included: Jeff Kingston, Director, Baseball Operations; Juan Lara, Assistant to the Director of Player development; and Gilly Reckler. It was an interesting and entertaining discussion of baseball from three young professionals involved in various business aspects of the Padres Baseball Club.
The final activity was a thorough behind-the-scenes tour of Petco Park.
2004 BOYNTON BASEBALL
RESEARCH AWARD WINNER:
NATHAN HICKS
We are pleased to
congratulate Nathan Hicks, 12th
grader from Ramona High School, who won our Chapter’s Boynton Baseball Research
Award for the 2nd time.
Nathan’s paper entitled: “Ted Williams, The Last .400 Hitter…Ever?” Nathan impressed members at our summer
regional meeting with a presentation on the subject. He sent us a letter afterwards and commented that “being rewarded
for writing on subjects and topics that interest me as a baseball fan is
amazing.”
MARK IT DOWN!
NEXT REGIONAL MEETING
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2005
We don’t have the
details of location and program pinned down yet, but we have decided to hold it
on Saturday morning, February 5, 2005—our traditional Super Bowl Saturday date.
So, you can count on the date, and the normal time of 9:30 a.m.
With regard to the
program we have a commitment from Jim
Vitti, author and winner of The
‘Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award’ for his outstanding book on the Cubs on Catalina. In addition,
we expect another couple of presentations…and are always looking for research
presentations. If you have something to offer please reply to this e-mail. And,
if you have any subjects or people you would recommend we schedule, please let
us know that, too.
JERRY COLEMAN A CANDIDATE FOR
FRICK AWARD
Voting
began for the 2005 Ford C. Frick Award, giving fans the opportunity to cast
their votes for a baseball broadcaster to be among the three names listed on
the final ballot. Jerry Coleman is a candidate this year. For the second
consecutive year, voting takes place exclusively online at www.baseballhalloffame.org through November 30, 2004. Presented annually since 1978 for excellence
in baseball broadcasting, the Ford C. Frick Award is given to an active or
retired broadcaster with a minimum of 10 years of continuous Major League
broadcast service with a ball club, network, or a combination of the two. It’s
about time that Jerry gets recognized for his contributions to
baseball—register your vote!!!
‘THE INSIDE GAME’
SABR DEADBALL ERA NEWSLETTER
Click
below to read the Deadball Era Committee's
newsletter, The Inside Game, vol. 4
no. 4. The newsletter has contributions from David Jones, R.J. Lesch, John McMurray, Bill Lamberty, and Jeff
Sackmann all pulled together into a fine piece by editor Charles
Crawley.
BASEBALL RESEARCH CENTER…
NEW ACQUISITIONS
Baseball Resources at San Diego Public
Library
New Acquisitions
in Central Library and Branches, April-June 2004
Compiled by Vic Cardell, our Chapter’s Library
Liaison who is with the Library’s Art, Music & Recreation Section
All holdings are at Central Library unless noted
otherwise.
Amernic, Jerry. Gift of the Bambino. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. Call Number: FIC/AMERNIC (Central and Branch Libraries) Baseball Prospectus. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's Sports, 2003. Call Number: R796.357/BASEBALL 2003
Bennett, Bob, ed. The Baseball Drill Book. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2004. Call Number: 796.3572/BASEBALL (Central and Branch Libraries) Boyle, Timm. The Most Valuable Players in Baseball, 1931-2001. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003. Call Number: R796.35764/BOYLE Einstein, Charles, ed. The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Books of Baseball. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. Call Number: R796.357/BASEBALL Fetter, Henry D. Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 2003. Call Number: 796.35764/FETTER (Central and Branch Libraries) Finoli, David and Bill Ranier. The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia. Champaign, Ill.: Sports Pub., 2003. Call Number: R796.35703/FINOLI Fordham, Willie. I Gave It My Best Shot. Harrisburg, PA: Wordshop Press, 1996. Call Number: R796.35709/FORDHAM Gwynn, Tony with Roger Vaughan. The Art of Hitting. New York: GT Pub., 1998. Call Number: 796.35727/GWYNN (Central and Branch Libraries) Heaphy, Leslie A. The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003. Call Number: 796.35764/HEAPHY (Central and Branch Libraries) Kemmerer, Russ with W.C. Madden. Ted Williams: "Hey, Kid, Just Get It over the Plate”!: A Book about Baseball's Golden Age, Its Great Players and Twinkling Stars. Fishers, IN: Madden Pub., 2002. Call Number: 796.357/KEMMERER (Central and Branch Libraries) Kiner, Ralph with Danny Peary. Baseball Forever: Reflections on 60 Years in the Game. Chicago: Triumph Books, c2004. Call Number: B/KINER
Kirsch, George B. Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. Call Number: 796.357/KIRSCH Lewin, Josh. Getting in the Game: Inside Baseball's Winter Meetings. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2004. Call Number: 796.35706/LEWIN (Branch Libraries only) Littlefield, Bill and Richard A. Johnson, eds. Fall Classics: The Best Writing about the World Series' First 100 Years. New York: Crown Publishers, 2003. Call Number: 796.35764/FALL (Central and Branch Libraries) McNeil, William F. The Dodgers Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Champaign, IL: Sports Pub., 2003. R796.357/MCNEIL (Central and Branch Libraries) Mulé, Dave. Across the Seams: Professional Baseball in Jamestown, New York. Mattituck, N.Y.: Amereon House, 1998. Call Number: R796.35764/MULE Nemec, David and Saul Wisnia. 100 Years of Major League Baseball: American and National Leagues, 1901-2000. Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, 2000. Call Number: 796.35764/NEMEC Nowlin, Bill and Cecilia Tan, eds. The Fenway Project: June 28, 2002: A Project of the Society for American Baseball Research and SABR Boston. Cambridge, MA: Rounder Books, 2004. Call Number: 796.357/FENWAY Official Major League Baseball Fact Book. St. Louis, MO: Sporting News Pub. Co., 2004. Call Number: R796.357/OFFICIAL 2004
Peterson, Robert. Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams. New York: Gramercy Books, 1999. Call Number: R796.357/PETERSON (Central and Branch Libraries) Retort, Robert D. Pictorial Negro League Legends Album. New Castle, PA: R.D. Retort Enterprises, 1992. Call Number: R796.357/RETORT Riley, James A. Dandy, Day, and the Devil. Cocoa, FL: TK Publishers, 1987. Call Number: R796.357/RILEY Schlossberg, Dan. Baseballaffs. Middle Village, NY: J. David, 1982. Call Number: R796.35702/SCHLOSSBERG Shapiro, Michael. The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Call Number: 796.35764/SHAPIRO (Central and Branch Libraries) Smith, Ira Lepouce and H. Allen Smith. Low and Inside: A Book of Baseball Anecdotes, Oddities, and Curiosities. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949. Call Number: R796.357/SMITH Votano, Paul. Stand and Deliver: A History of Pinch-Hitting. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003. Call Number: 796.35726/VOTANO (Central and Branch Libraries) Whitehead, Charles E. A Man and His Diamonds: A Story of the Great Andrew (Rube) Foster, the Outstanding team He Owned and Managed, and the Superb League He Founded and Commissioned. New York: Vantage Press, 1980. Call Number: R796.35709/WHITEHEAD Wirkmaa, Andres. Baseball Scorekeeping: A Practical Guide to the Rules. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003. Call Number: 796.357/WIRKMAA (Central and Branch Libraries) Zimbalist, Andrew S. May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. Call Number: 796.35706/ZIMBALIST (Central and Branch Libraries)
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RECORDS ARE MEANT TO BE
BROKEN!
HOME RUNS BY POSITION
David Vincent…”I was
asked to post the complete home run record progression by position. Here they
are.” All lists through 2003.
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