Society for American Baseball Research
Our annual SABR Day lunch meeting will be held at the Macaroni Grill at Great Hills Trail and 183 in the Arboretum Area.
We will plan to meet at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 30. Please RSVP so we can provide an accurate headcount for seating purposes to Jan Larson at jan.a.larson@gmail.com.
Take a break from your online holiday shopping and join us for our December lunch meeting at the Macaroni Grill at Great Hills Trail and 183 in the Arboretum Area.
We will plan to meet at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 12. Please RSVP so we can provide an accurate headcount for seating purposes to Jan Larson at jan.a.larson@gmail.com.
We will review and rehash the 2015 Major League season and post-season at the County Line BBQ at 5204 Ranch Rd 2222 (just east of RR 2222 and Hwy 360) on Saturday, November 14 starting at 12:15 p.m. Please RSVP so we can provide an accurate headcount for seating purposes to Jan Larson at jan.a.larson@gmail.com.
The Commissioner of the Rogers Hornsby Chapter of the Society of American Baseball Research requests the honor of your presence at the chapter’s annual MLB Playoff Watch Party on Saturday, Oct. 17 (this will also be our regular chapter monthly meeting).
That day, NLCS Game 1 and ALCS Game 2 are set to be played. Teams are yet to be determined – will it be a Lone Star Affair involving the Astros and the Rangers or the Battle of the Blues between the Blue Jays and the Royals? Or some other combination? The next five days will reveal the answer!
Game times haven’t yet been announced, but our best guess is a 3 p.m. start for one game and a 7 p.m. start for the other.
Therefore, we propose an open house at Casa Martinez in Southwest Austin from 2:30 p.m. to whenever the second game ends. Let’s have a potluck – we’ll provide sandwich fixins; you bring side dishes, desserts or beverages.
Please RSVP to Gilbert directly (gmartinez46@mac.com) by Friday evening, Oct. 16. Let Gilbert know if you have any questions.
Hope you can make it!
As the Major League season winds down, the Rogers Hornsby Chapter will have its monthly meeting at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27, at Serranos (5030 Hwy. 290 West) in southwest Austin. This Serranos is located on U.S. 290 and MoPac and is in the same shopping center as Best Buy and Sam’s Club.
Please RSVP to Gilbert Martinez directly at gmartinez46@mac.com before noon Saturday, Sept. 26.
Former major league pitcher Lindy McDaniel was the Fall Forum headliner
Eric Robinson presented and David Skelton hosted
More information and a picture slideshow are at the sabr.org site here.
Join SABR members and other interested baseball fans for the inaugural Fall Forum to be held in the Heart of Texas.
The current roster of guests and presenters include:
Lindy McDaniel – will share memories from his 21-year major league career.
John Wood (retired Baylor professor) – will preview his book on ethics in baseball.
Mark Presswood (author) – will discuss Texas League history and teams.
Eric Robinson (educator) – will present some of his research on Negro League baseball, with a focus on the Waco area.
Eugene Baker (Baylor professor emeritus) and David Lintz (museum director) – will tell the story of Waco’s Katy Park.
Robert Gamboa (civic leader and historian) – will discuss Hispanics in baseball.
Gale McCray (SABR member) – will present a skit on baseball and life.
Admission is free and attendees will be able to order lunch online for delivery.
If you have any memorabilia you’d like to discuss with the audience, feel free to bring it and there will be time to discuss.
To help with planning the logistics for this event, please RSVP your intent to attend to:
David Skelton — phone at 254-723-9603 or via email at dsbaseballfan@yahoo.com
We’re going to change things up a bit starting in July and begin a series of Saturday lunch meetings at various locations around the Austin area instead of the Tues or Thurs evening meetings at Iron Works. The hassle of traveling downtown during rush hour is becoming just too much of … well, a hassle, so we thought we would dial back the travel intensity a bit and make it easier for more people to attend.
Our first Saturday lunch meeting will be at the Macaroni Grill at Great Hills Trail and 183 in the Arboretum Area. This is the same location as we’ve met for SABR Day lunches in recent years.
We will plan to meet at 12:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 11. Please RSVP so we can provide an accurate headcount for seating purposes to Jan Larson at jan.a.larson@gmail.com.
Spring training is underway and Opening Day is just around the corner. This month marks a special celebration for the Rogers Hornsby Chapter. When we meet on Saturday, March 21, it will be the 100th consecutive month in which our chapter has met!
It’s a celebration that’s, well, 100 months in the making! I’ll have a special trivia quiz to mark this occasion. Here’s what you need to know about the celebration.
We’ll have a pizza party at the home of Gilbert and Raeanne Martinez in southwest Austin starting at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 21.
Please RSVP directly to Gilbert (gmartinez46@mac.com) if you plan to attend by Friday, March 20. You may bring a side dish, an appetizer, dessert or beverages.
When you RSVP, please let me know what you’re bringing so we can minimize duplications.
Let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see you for our 100th!
We will be gathering at Iron Works BBQ located at 100 Red River in downtown Austin on Thursday, February 26 starting at 6:00 p.m. This will be our 99th consecutive monthly meeting. Monte Cely and Mike Dillon will present a quiz related to their recent trip to the Serie del Caribe in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Please RSVP to Jan Larson at jan.a.larson@gmail.com if you plan to attend.
Join us for our annual SABR Day lunch on Saturday, January 24 at 12:00 noon at the Macaroni Grill in the Arboretum in Austin. The address is 9828 Great Hills Trail, Austin, TX 78759. Please RSVP to Jan Larson here if you plan to attend so we can have an accurate headcount.
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