Index To Sabr Publications

Download or read book Index to SABR Publications written by Society for American Baseball Research and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction: Since the original SABR index was put together in the fall of 1981 much has happened to the organization and the sport it chronicles. New faces and stars — Mattingly, Gooden, Raines, and Sandberg — have replaced Yaz and Bench and Pops and Palmer. The Hall of Fame has admitted Arky and Catfish and Enos and Juan Marichal. The Cardinals and Orioles and Mets have won; the Astros and Cubs and Brewers have tried; and the Red Sox have come closest of all. Pete Rose has surpassed Ty Cobb, the Niekros have overtaken the Perrys, and Mike Schmidt continues to hit home runs at an amazingly consistent clip. Obscure or overshadowed ballplayers have their moment in the sun — Robin Yount, Dave Henderson, Len Barker, Joe Charboneau — while longstanding performers establish marks that will propel them to Cooperstown. In short, baseball continues to add to its legacy. While the sport renews itself continually, SABR, through it thousands of researchers, writers, and statisticians, brings back the past. It unearths new and interesting facts about the game's greatest, attempts to compare apples and oranges, argues about the merits of the chosen, and agonizes over the bases-loaded strikeout. The past few years have witnessed a great appreciation for baseball history and sabermetrics thanks to Bill James' Abstracts, the Elias Analyst, and other new publications that address an audience SABR has helped to cultivate. It is hoped that this index will enable many of the new SABR members to discover subjects to whet their own imagination for research and that the study of baseball will flourish along with the game itself.