Elrod hendricks – society for american baseball research

The Society for American Baseball Research SABR is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and statistical record of baseball. The organization was founded in Cooperstown, New York , on August 10, , at a meeting of 16 "statistorians" coordinated by sportswriter Bob Davids. While the acronym "SABR" was used to coin the word sabermetrics for the use of sophisticated mathematical tools to analyze baseball , the Society is about much more than statistics.

Wright , and Rollie Hemond are members, along with highly regarded "sabermetricians" such as Bill James and Rob Neyer. Only a minority of members pursue "number crunching" research. Rather, the SABR community is organized both by interest and geography:. The headquarters also maintains a number of research tools on its website, including a lending library, home run and triple play logs, and course syllabi related to the game.

SABR holds annual conventions in a different city each year. The conference generally includes panel discussions, research presentations, city-specific tourism, a ballgame, and an awards banquet. The convention in New York City , set the attendance record with registered attendees out of approximately 7, SABR members. The National Pastime is an annual, published from to as The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History , when it was intended as a more literary outlet than the stats oriented BRJ ; since it is a convention-focused journal, with articles about the geographic region where the convention is taking place that year.

Additionally, there are also a number of international chapters.

Hendricks, Baltimore's most loyal lieutenant,

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