This weekend I had the great fortune of attending the Society for American Baseball Research annual convention. SABR40 was hosted by the Magnolia Chapter in the city of Atlanta.  At the time of submitting my registration for the conference, I was living just south of the city and expected to make an easy commute to and from home to partake in the panels and discussions on the agenda.  However since that time, the family has begun a transition to pursue opportunities in New England, so the commute now included a plane flight.  Fortunately, (or not so fortunately) the house is still on the market and I was able to take care of some home maintenance upon my return to Atlanta, while also attending the convention.

My overall impression is that there are many incredibly smart individuals with extraordinary passion driving their pursuit of greater knowledge of the game of baseball. I was in awe of the exquisite detail included in the member presentations, while thoroughly enjoying the exchanges during the panel discussions.

Here are some notes:

My first event was Thursday evening and the panel discussion of Women Baseball Writers held at Charis Books and More in the Little Five Points district of Atlanta. The panel consisted of Dorothy Seymour Mills, Christina Kahrl and Cecilia Tan. Also listed on the panel was Judith Testa who was unable to attend for some reason.  I was looking forward to seeing Judith since I had done a Cover the Bases podcast with her about her biography of Sal Maglie.

• Cecilia is also a previous guest on the podcast, so it was great to meet her this night and to see her throughout the weekend live blogging on her site WhyILikeBaseball.com. Cecilia read the introduction and a favorite passage of her book The 50 Greatest Games in Yankee History
• Dorothy Seymour Mills discussed her work with her husband and colleague Harold Seymour, as well as her biography A Woman’s Work and her recent book Chasing Baseball.
• I was really impressed with Christina Kahrl’s story of building up the Baseball Prospectus from it’s initial beginnings to an essential publication for serious baseball fans.  She has succeeded in collaborating on the annuals inspired by the Bill James Baseball Abstracts.
• Also getting a chance to tell us about her current work was Stephanie Liscio who is publishing a book titled Integrating Cleveland Baseball.
• One of the benefits of being in town this weekend was the series with the San Francisco Giants. Tonights ballgame was a big 3-2 win over Tim Lincecum. I also fired up the MLB Package on DirectTV and watched the Padres take one from the Dodgers.

Day two started out with a panel discussion called 1990′s Braves “Worst to First” Era Panel including Phil Niekro, Mark Lemke, Bobby Cox and Ron Gant, moderated by recent Cover the Bases guest Pete Van Wieren.

• Sat next to a gentleman who produced a baseball for the Braves panelists to sign.  He mentioned to me that it was from the previous night’s ballgame.  As he told the story, it had bounced off the hands of another fan in front of him and it presented itself softly in front of him.  It was a foul off the bat of Alex Gonzalez who homered two pitches later!
• To my left was a guy who was admiring my iPad and we discussed how he could use it for work purposes.  Unfortunately the hotel was a complete black hole as far as internet connectivity.  One of the discoveries of this weekend is how much better the AT&T 3G coverage is in Boston than it is in Atlanta.
• My seat mates and I talked a lot of about the Braves and I was able to relate the importance of Pete Van Wieren to the entire Braves community.  We also discussed autographs and his pursuit of the identity of a former Orioles player whose signature he cannot decipher.
• One of the best lines of the panel came from Bobby Cox when jokingly discussing umpires said, “I like all umpires .. except for the one in Florida last night!”.  The night before, umpire Bob Davidson had missed a fair / foul call that cost the Florida Marlins a win over the Phillies.

Some other notes:

• Interesting mashup using Google Earth and Google Maps, placing the Braves 1991 season in visual perspective at Visual-Baseball.com. Check out the clusters around each NL city as the Braves made their way into baseball history. Use the date range sliders to see event descriptions and locations where they took place.
• Seeing and meeting Ed Achorn, author of Fifty Nine in ’84 was a great pleasure.  His biography of Old Hoss Radbourn has captured the imagination of numerous baseball fans and his presentation was well attended.  As I stated to Ed later in the vendor room, this baseball loving audience was very eager for more details about the game of this era.
• It was so good to see Dan Fost, the author of Giants Past & Present.  We had a great conversation about how his book has been doing and about his recent travels to the Yogi Berra Museum in New Jersey.  It was also a privilege to meet his Dad, who had come to the convention with him.  He was a real fan as we enthusiastically discussed numerous players with Dan Schlossberg at a nearby table.  Dan is the author of the recently released The 300 Club, and we discussed scheduling his own appearance on the podcast.
• I peaked in at the conclusion of the  Awards Luncheon keynote address by John Schuerholz, President of the Atlanta Braves.  Schuerholz was his usual smooth communicator as he took questions from the audience about the unprecedented Braves playoff run.  A lasting image for me will come from the moment milling about after final remarks,  a gentleman with a large cigar walked past me with the jovial greeting .. “Have a good day fella!”.  I recognized him as the former Braves Director of Player Development Paul Snyder.  Snyder is credited with major contributions to the roster that went on to 14 consecutive playoff appearances.
• It is no wonder that the New York Mets and Houston Colt 45′s (Astros) struggled during their early existence, after seeing the presentation done by Eric Thompson.  The expansion draft rules created by the National League office, and the loopholes that allowed for incredible roster juggling, left a list of mostly undesirable veterans and dubious prospects for the taking.

One of the most interesting panels of the weekend was called New Technologies in Baseball.  The panel was moderated by Alan Nathan and included presentations using the PITCH f/x, HITf/x and the new and exciting FIELDf/x video analysis, a presentation on TrackMan radar technologies, and presentations on analysis using the data collected.

• Getting reliable fielding data for analysis was called the current “holy grail” of baseball statisticians.  The FIELDf/x system installed at ATT&T Park for the San Francisco Giants is a beta system attempting to capture video imagery for deeper insights.
• We saw some great PITCHf/x graphic analysis of Dustin Pedria’s hot and cold zones. If you are facing him you may want to go with high and tight!
• TrackMan, from a Denmark based company, uses Doppler Radar technologies developed for tracking missiles to capture among other things, spin rates and trajectory of pitches.
• Alan Nathan showed his interesting analysis of “Carry” on a ball hit at all major league parks, and as expected Coors Field had the most carry, while he had audience members scratching their heads as to why Cleveland would be the least in 2009.  Turns out there was a season of unusual wind impacting ball flight.   He also presented an amazing chart pinpointing the accuracy of Mariano Rivera hitting the corners time after time.

• Josh Kalk, Baseball Operations Analyst for the Tampa Bay Rays had the audience riveted to his demonstration of the “Red Dot” seen by hitters on incoming sliders and described by Reggie Jackson during this NPR Interview.  Josh took a baseball attached to a power drill, and fired up a perfectly presented red dot as the seams rotated on the spin axis of the baseball.  It was a great demonstration right up to the point when the ball flew off the drill!
• Sat beside a guy named Ray from Virginia who was in awe as I was at the brilliance of these technologists, statisticians and physicists who are doing some incredible work with the information that is being captured by this advanced technology.

In all it was a great event, and I know that I missed numerous activities that would have added to the enjoyment, and there were some attendees that I wanted to connect with but just could not get together.  I would have liked to have attended the First Timers gathering on Wednesday night, but I was not aware of it prior to making my travel arrangements.  Some other observations:

• Many baseball fans are conversing regularly via Twitter, but may not use their given name as their handle. As a way to identify attendees in the future, it would be great to include Twitter information as part of the attendee directory and name tags.  There might be someone who you have conversed with on line sitting right beside you!
• It was very frustrating to have zero connectivity during the presentations.  Assistance with WiFi would be helpful.
• The vendor room was slightly off the beaten path.  I know that this is a function of the hotel layout, but my impression was that the traffic was very light for the book authors.

See you in Los Angeles in 2011!

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Saturday, October 15, 1988: World Series, Game 1

At approximately 1:00 PM, I received a phone call from a friend who asked me whether I’d be interested in buying two tickets for that afternoon’s game at Dodger Stadium. He said they were available at face value, but added that I would need to drive to a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport to pick them up.

I said, “Yes, I want the tickets.”

As soon as I hung up the phone, I picked it up again to call a friend who I knew would want to come along. No answer. I left a message on the machine.

I called another friend. No answer. I left a message on the machine.

Another call. Same result.

I don’t recall exactly how many phone calls I made–maybe two or three more. Even though it was a Saturday, nobody was home, and because I didn’t want to be late for the game, I started to leave.

Before I reached the front door, the phone rang.

The caller was a college friend who I hadn’t seen for a few years or so. He had moved to the Midwest, but was in town on business and wanted to get together for lunch or dinner.

I said, “Do you want to go to the game at Dodger Stadium today?”

Knowing  he was (still is) a lifelong baseball fan, I knew the answer before he said yes.

I looked at the clock, knew we’d be cutting it close, so I told him I’d pick up the tickets and meet him at the Stadium.

I drove to LAX, picked up the tickets, drove to Dodger Stadium, met my friend, and on the way to the turnstiles, caught up on general stuff.  I told him the story about not being able to find anyone for the second ticket.

We agreed about the good timing.

1988 World Series–Game 1. Most baseball fans know how this game ended. Gibson hobbles to the plate, hits a 3-2 pitch over the right field wall. Gibson limps around the bases. Dodgers win. People who left in the 7th or 8th inning “to beat the traffic” curse themselves for the rest of their lives.

For me, there’s another unforgettable part of that game’s dramatic conclusion.

As the tension mounted and the count went full, picture a capacity crowd (minus at least a few dozen who got a head start toward the freeways)–shouting, yelling, whistling, screaming, clapping. Oakland’s ace reliever, Dennis Eckersley, delivers the 3-2 pitch. Gibson swings.

One of these days, I’m going to use a stopwatch to see how much time elapsed from the moment of contact–that crack of the bat–and the moment it descended like a crazy dream into some lucky fan’s hands there in the right field pavilion.

However many seconds passed (more than one, maybe close to four) an almost unbelievable silence (quick as it was) replaced the noise. It was as if everyone there–witnessing the almost inconceivable–simultaneously inhaled and wiped the sound away until, just as suddenly, the subsequent release of air launched a collective shout of joyful disbelief that transformed itself into at least a half hour of continuous shouting, yelling, whistling, screaming, clapping, and cheering. As we picked up our programs and left our seats, as we walked down the stairs, out to the parking lot, as we drove onto the freeway, and away from Dodger Stadium that evening, the cheering continued.

Theologians may point out technicalities to dispute the point. Skeptics and pessimists may dismiss the point as trivial or irrelevant in terms of the broader scope of Life on Earth.  But because the memory reminds me how the will to succeed can prevail over seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and that no matter how rarely miracles occur, what I saw in the bottom of the ninth inning on October 15, 1988 showed me that miracles can and do happen. You just have to keep yourself ready for them.  Grab a bat, step into the box, and take your best cut.

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• Ichiro with a walkoff two run homerun of Mariano Rivera! #Yankees #mariners !! #
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• Ok .. love the #dodgers camera catching Zito & Lincecum in the dugout yucking it up #sfgiants #
• #Scully tonight reminds us how much he misses the outfielders throwing to the bases in pre-games. Watching outfielders with guns #dodgers #
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• Pls tell me this trend is not going to become more prevelant.. This Manny Ramirez at bat is brought to you by AM/PM.. Say it ain't so #
• #dodgers better stop playing pinball around the diamond if they are going deep in October. Seems whenever I turn them on it's fielding probs #
• Love seeing the local ads when I'm watching West Coast games. Seeing things like Red Bull Soap Box Derby coming to LA soon, makes me laugh #
• @USAFCCF there's been many more nights he should have considered it. Drives me nuts to see talent like Escobar blow it not playing smart in reply to USAFCCF #
• So .. story tomorrow for #braves – does benching Escobar light same fire it did for Andruw Jones 10 Gold Gloves & Silver Slugger? We'll See #
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• Stomach punch … Two walks and a Jimmy Rollins homerun puts a fork in the #braves. Oh & Fransisco blast to top it off #phillies #
• Makes my heart proud that the most clutch hitter on this team is the catcher. McCann 2 run Jack #braves pull within 2 on #phillies bullpen #
• 2 homeruns this game #braves Logan plays chin music on Ryan Howard after Utley steals 2nd to open up 1st base. HBP take your base! #phillies #
• Just added to http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #baseball #mlb #wisdom #fans #community #
• Tots in bed ready for Fri. Baseball. Cox yanking Escobar reminds me of time he pulled young Andruw Jones mid-inning. Approve move #braves #
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• RT @Sarah2713: Mmmm I can feel it in the air. October Baseball is right around the corner #MLB #
• Love video of toddler tossing Dad's foul ball away http://bit.ly/aPu0D Any #phillies fans out there know the guy? Would love to talk to him #
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• Tek!! Heck of a block on plate at the plate! Keeps game tied at 5 … Pouring rain in the 8th … Now the tarp comes out #redsox #
• Ryan Howard with a two run BOMB in Philly. 3-0 #Phillies over #braves.. But it’s still only 4th due to rain. Pedro out & Tommy Hanson out #
• RemDawg always looks like the guest in the booth is infringing on his turf … Hands stuffed in his pockets looking at the field #redSox #
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• You know you’ve watched too much baseball around the house when your 3 yr old daughter tells you a duck says “Aflac” .. true story I swear! #
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• Still in shock over #rockies walkoff grand slam … early wakeup so watched last 1/2 inning in bed. Tried to be quiet after blast! #
• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-24: #sfgiants go up 4-1 in 14th.. Velez tripled on top on Renteria triple. Ma.. http://bit.ly/Fyjl #

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• I think I heard ARod yelling behind Cano making him drop that.. #
• #Braves take another series … 5 RBI day for McCann. That boy is a player … #
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• Twitter Updates for 2009-08-22: Let’s Play Cover the Bases!: Episode: One In the Lineup:  JB Favorite Team:  Atl.. http://bit.ly/IuG8E #

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• @missyleyva Todd Helton .. H.O.F.? in reply to missyleyva #
• OMG! Matsui hits a 3 run homer in the ninth to make it 19 (19!) to 7 #Yankees #redsox #
• No!!! Why does MLB Package only have the Cubs feed!? Where’s #dodgers & Vin Scully? … I was counting on that tonight. Ugh #
• Oh my … Ninth inning rain delay #marlins #braves. Heads up at the Ted with all that lightning! #
• Book on Adam LaRoche is that he is a 2nd half hitter … Think he is playing by the book again this year. 3 run bomb. #marlins still 5-3 tho #
• @Sarah2713 thought that was him .. Keeps pitching like that & he’ll impact this race. in reply to Sarah2713 #
• @Sarah2713 .. Did Anibel Sanchez come with Hanley Ramirez from Red Sox for Beckett? in reply to Sarah2713 #
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• Twitter Updates for 2009-08-20: Ha … Leave room to upload a podcast during #dodgers #cubs game it’s .. http://bit.ly/E08wz #

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• Ha … Leave room to upload a podcast during #dodgers #cubs game it’s 2 – 2. Come back and it’s 6 – 2 …. Now I’ve got to rewind the Tivo #
• Linked Facebook Fan Page to Twitter account .. Come on to our page. Friend us on FB! http://bit.ly/s9sPw http://bit.ly/s9sPw #
• RE: @joemagennis I’ve always said that if I was going to have a baseball card I’d want it to be an action shot… But i… http://disq.us/20v2 #
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• Felt like busting out a favorite Baseballism we got from Sam Bush when he was on tour in Ga. last year.. he was awesome http://bit.ly/nUfyX #
• Watching MLB Network replay of #dodgers #expos 1981 NLCS. What a horrid baseball stadium Olympic Stadium. Track circling field, trash, turf #
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• Twitter Updates for 2009-08-17: Adding an email signup form to our Facebook Fan Page http://bit.ly/s9sPw ….. http://bit.ly/4h0JsB #

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• Adding an email signup form to our Facebook Fan Page http://bit.ly/s9sPw … thanks for tip @johnchow. We’re on a mission now for the Hall! #
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• Twitter Updates for 2009-08-16: Damn .. Hanger from Vazquez & Ryan Howard bombs three run homer. 4-1 #braves.. http://bit.ly/aWWN3 #

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• Damn .. Hanger from Vazquez & Ryan Howard bombs three run homer. 4-1 #braves #phillies #
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• Kemp w/ number 16 on the year to Deep centerfield… Sending many #giants fans out the gates of AT&T. #dodgers 9 – 1 #
• Manny jacks 13th of the year #dodgers go up 6 – 1 over #giants. It was a bomb! #
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• Every time #braves want to be pissed at Escobar for bonehead plays, he comes up with big hits or game saving plays with his arm like that. #
• Pretty damn well pitched game going on Kawakami v Kershaw … #braves #dodgers …. 0 – 0 in the 7th #
• @ng11787 I like that he is descriptive in his play by play instead if mechanical. in reply to ng11787 #
• Joe & Boog (who I am liking more and more) are dissing “attention deficit” fans in LA & the beach ball thing on #braves game.. Funny #
• Great thing about baseball; after all those amazing finishes last night.. And there were many.. We get to wake up and do it again today! #
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• Twitter Updates for 2009-08-07: RT @jessespector: This may be the only day in the history of the universe that O.. http://bit.ly/jSm1V #
• #braves blow it open .. What a night of baseball tonight. G’Night all. Hit’em Hard Somewhere! #

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• RT @jessespector: This may be the only day in the history of the universe that Omar Vizquel, Jason Kendall and Everth Cabrera all homer. #
• Well there you go … Anderson drives in tying run off Broxton. 5 – 5 #Braves #Dodgers in top of ninth #
• Oh what the heck … Let’s go ahead and finish the west coast games. #giants tied in the ninth & #dodgers one run lead over #braves in 9th. #
• New York City has had a couple of games to talk about tonight… #
• RT @joemagennis: Oh! It just had to be him…… #redsox #
• @AmyKNelson what!?! It’s Friday night Sox / Yanks in Bronx? 0 – 0 in the 15th! Leaving is nit an option .. in reply to AmyKNelson #
• RT @amandarykoff: JD Drew was the MVP of another 15 inning game at Yankee Stadium. Just FYI. … Yes he was! #
• I’ve seen some pretty awesome game saving catches this year. DeWayne Wise for ChiSox & tonights JD Drew catch #
• Oh yeah and there is a Lincecum start going on tonight. Can there be such a thing as too much Baseball. TiVo on overdrive #
• Want to catch as much #Braves & #Dodgers as possible .. But this #RedSox #Yankees game is a classic. #
• @jaykapp agreed.. I know I like to remember them they way they used to be. Did you expect Glavine & Smoltz to both be out of work this year? in reply to jaykapp #
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• RT @joemagennis: Is this the end of John Smoltz as a player? Sorry to see it end this way.. He’s such a gamer I thought he would make it bac #

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• Twitter Updates for 2009-08-03: RT @bsteve76: So, Joe Torre’s Dodgers take 2 of 3 from Braves. Makes me wa.. http://bit.ly/aegOv #

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• RT @bsteve76: So, Joe Torre’s Dodgers take 2 of 3 from Braves. Makes me wanna share my old Torre baseball card. http://tinyurl.com/p9736r #
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• Matt Kemp is fast becoming one of my favorite players to watch … Power plus smooth on the run in center. #dodgers #braves #
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• Twitter Updates for 2009-08-01: WOW huge K of Howard for Lincecum … That change is one heck of a pitch #
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• WOW huge K of Howard for Lincecum … That change is one heck of a pitch #
• Gotta love bring the pooch to the park night in SF. Giants fans look like it’s a good party. Oh & Lincecum is squirming through a shutout #
• Dodgers playing the Braves right here in Atl this weekend so no late night on the dish .. So I’ll kick back & watch Lincecum deal for Giants #
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• Twitter Updates for 2009-07-31: @Sarah2713 just favorited your Quote of the Night. That’s classic! in repl.. http://bit.ly/VD0yQ #

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• @Sarah2713 just favorited your Quote of the Night. That’s classic! in reply to Sarah2713 #
• Awesome of Joe Simpson to recognize umpire rotation on play at the plate in Braves game. Quality color commentary! #
• Happy to hear about another season for Vin Scully in Dodgers booth next year. Listen to as many as you can, will never be another like him #
• Anybody know if there is a list of Aflac trivia questions & answers? #
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• Twitter Updates for 2009-07-30: Chopper to Chipper nothing he could do and pen blows another W for Vasquez&#8230.. http://bit.ly/gHpMh #

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• Chopper to Chipper nothing he could do and pen blows another W for Vasquez….. Braves and Marlins tied at three #
• GGGonzalez making things interesting for Braves again. Bases loaded 2 out protecting one run lead in the 8th vs Marlins. This guy kills me #
• Nice to hear old friend Bob Montgomery in the #RedSox broadcast booth. Favorite night w/ him was Clemens first 20 K. “I think I’ll stand!” #
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• Twitter Updates for 2009-07-29: ESPN says Phillies have aquired Cliff Lee pending physical. Hello NL East title .. http://bit.ly/l3kF5 #

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• ESPN says Phillies have aquired Cliff Lee pending physical. Hello NL East title Philadelphia .. Take aim on Marlins, Giants et al #Braves #
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