Looking for Something Like the Old Sporting News Guides? Look at SABR.org‏

By K on March 3rd, 2010

Dear K,

If you have missed the old Sporting News Guide, then you’ll want to download a free copy of The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2010.

Developed in the spirit of the classic guides published by the Sporting News, Spalding, and Reach, The Emerald Guide includes all pitching, hitting, and fielding statistics for every player active in the major and minor leagues during 2009. Other features include team histories, up-to-date team contact information and schedules, an extensive Year in Review essay, team day-by-day game logs, All-Star Game box score and play-by play, post-season box scores and play-by-play, transactions, debuts, first-year player draft, and major and minor league necrology.

To download your free PDF version of The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2010, head to www.sabr.org and click on the cover of the book.

A bound version is available via print on demand at Lulu.com for $24.95. The electronic version of the Guide contains all of the pages of the printed version.

We invite you to re-join SABR or join us in Atlanta, Georgia for our 40th annual meeting. Held from Thursday, August 5 to Sunday, August 8 at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel downtown, it is sure to be a lot of fun. Registration will start soon. Visit http://convention.sabr.org for the latest information.

Some things you may have missed:
SABR Day Draws Over 700 to Events Across the Country
SABR Successfully Defends Application of Trademark for “sabermetrics”
Lisa Winston to Speak at Seymour Conference

In the coming months, SABR will announce the first class of winners of the Chadwick Award – to honor the greats in baseball research. SABR will also make public its SABR Encyclopedia at www.sabrpedia.org.

Also coming soon – a re-instatement of online access to the historical editions of The Sporting News for members-only.

Thank you for your past support of SABR!

Sincerely,
John Zajc
Executive Director
Society for American Baseball Research
812 Huron Rd E #719
Cleveland OH 44115
www.sabr.org
1-800-969-7227