SABR 50 at 50

SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American Baseball Researchs wide-ranging contributions to baseball history. Established in 1971 in Cooperstown, New York, SABR has sought to foster and disseminate the research of baseballwith groundbreaking work from statisticians, historians, and independent researchersand has published dozens of articles with far-reaching and long-lasting impact on the game. Among its current membership are many Major and Minor League Baseball officials, broadcasters, and writers as well as numerous former players. The diversity of SABR members interests is reflected in this fiftieth-anniversary volumefrom baseball and the arts to statistical analysis to the Deadball Era to women in baseball. SABR 50 at 50 includes the most important and influential research published by members across a multitude of topics, including the sabermetric work of Dick Cramer, Pete Palmer, and Bill James, along with Jerry Malloy on the Negro Leagues, Keith Olbermann on why the shortstop position is number 6, John Thorn and Jules Tygiel on the untold story behind Jackie Robinsons signing with the Dodgers, and Gai Berlage on the Colorado Silver Bullets womens team in the 1990s. To provide history and context, each notable research article is accompanied by a short introduction. As SABR celebrates fifty years this collection gathers the organizations most notable research and baseball history for the serious baseball reader.