SABR Day, held annually on the Saturday a week before the Super Bowl, is a chance for all baseball fans to come together on the same day regardless of where they live. Dozens of our regional chapters hold meetings on that day.
The 14th annual SABR Day was held on Saturday, February 4, 2023. We gathered virtually on Zoom to hear two great presentations from our own local authors. Bob LeMoine presented his book, When The Babe Went Back To Boston and Dr. Clayton Trutor presented his book, Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports.
The 15th annual SABR Day will be held Saturday, February 3, 2024. Our chapter will have a daylong celebration of baseball with an embarrassment of riches of guests! Here’s a look at the current lineup, due to change. Sign up links will be added soon.
We step to the plate beginning at 9 AM, ET with Tyler Kepner. Tyler is an author and sports journalist who is currently a senior baseball writer for The Athletic, after spending more than 23 years writing baseball for The New York Times and a long time SABR Member. Stop by our first session of the day to see him talk about his career in sports journalism and also to discuss his books, K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches and The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series.
At noon eastern, our 2nd time up will be with Lindsay Berra! Lindsay is a freelance sports journalist based in Montclair, NJ. At MLB.com from January 2013 through January 2018, she established herself as an authority on baseball fitness and injuries and appeared frequently on MLB Network to discuss her stories. She is the oldest grandchild of Yogi and Carmen Berra and is a board member at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, NJ. Lindsay will be discussing It Ain’t Over, an intimate portrait of a misunderstood American icon. This emotional and uplifting documentary about Yogi Berra takes us beyond the caricatures and “Yogisms,” and into the heart of a sports legend whose unparalleled accomplishments on the baseball diamond were often overshadowed by his off-the-field persona.
At 7 PM ET, we dig in the batters box for a 3rd time with Andy Tuetken. Andy is a SABR Member and author from Rhode Island who has a brand-new book, Murals of McCoy Every once in a while, a person comes across something that brings them back to a memory they sincerely cherish – one they wish could be relived over and over again. For this long-time Pawtucket Red Sox fan, that “something” was the collection of 95 hand painted and photographed player murals that adorn the winding concourses of McCoy Stadium. Although the Pawtucket Red Sox are gone and McCoy Stadium sits empty, this Rhode Islander’s passion for the game of baseball and the player murals could not be dampened. Thus began the journey to give new life to the murals and provide a place that the 95 players who were represented could continue to tell their story and live on for generations to come.
Bruce McClure, Certified Interior Decorator 