LAST UPDATE: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 - 12:18

SAVE THE DATE! Our annual virtual chapter meeting, honoring SABR DAY 2025, will be on Saturday, February 22nd at 11:00 AM.

Keynote speaker, Kevin Baker, will discuss his award-winning book The New York Game - Baseball and the Rise of a New City.

• A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • Sports Illustrated #1 Book of 2024 • A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II.
• “You’re going to beg for extra innings. Without missing a scandal or a sensation, with an eye on how assimilation transforms the picture, Kevin Baker has written a buoyant, double coming-of-age story.”—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• “No one knows New York City better than Kevin Baker, so it's only natural that he would breathe such spectacular life into the stories of the National Pastime in the Capital of Baseball. A remarkable, complicated doubleheader of a book.”— Ken Burns, filmmaker

Registration for this event is required. Chapter members, please check your sabr.chapters email for registration details. Non-chapter members, please email us at questions-comments@sabrnyc.org for registration details. [Evelyn Begley, Kevin Carter, Ernestine Miller]

We want to thank all of you for submitting your votes for the 2024 Ron Gabriel Award. Congratulation to the winner, Ebbets Field: Great historic and memorable games from Brooklyn's lost ballpark - Edited by Gregory H. Wolf and associate editors Len Levin, Bill Nowlin, and Carl Riechers.

The Ron Gabriel Award, given out by SABR’s Casey Stengel Chapter in New York, honors the author(s) of the best research, published or unpublished, on the subject of the Brooklyn Dodgers completed during the preceding calendar year. Eligible works include, but are not limited to -- magazine and journal articles, previously unpublished chapters or articles in anthologies or other books with multiple authors, unpublished research papers, written versions of oral presentations, books, databases and websites.

Ron Gabriel hosted the first SABR chapter meeting in November, 1974 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He passed away in 2009 and SABR was a beneficiary of a generous donation from his estate. Ron was an avid Brooklyn Dodger fan who collected historical items related to the team.

The Ron Gabriel Award Committee is now looking for new committee members and accepting nominations for 2025. If you want to join the team or submit something, please contact Gary Sarnoff. [Evelyn Begley, Kevin Carter, Ernestine Miller]

We are so pleased to finally finish our first-ever chapter journal, You Can Look It Up!. As editor Bruce Slutsky says, "This is your journal."

We thank the writers, whose content is now published, for their patience with us as we carefully followed the process of publishing: proofreading, copy editing, formatting, and so on. :Feedback is always welcome by emailing Bruce Slutsky and here is the link to enjoy the Casey Stengel Chapter's journal -- You Can Look It Up! :

We hope you all enjoy this new and exciting publication. Happy Holidays to everyone as we look forward to SABRNYC 2025! [Damian Begley, Evelyn Begley, Kevin Carter, David Lippman, Ernestine Miller, Bruce Slutsky]

The latest edition of The Lineup -- our chapter newsletter which alerts readers to upcoming events, chapter news, and subjects specific to Casey Stengel Chapter members -- is now available! To view the November newsletter, please click on the Adobe Acrobat link below to load the .PDF file.

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Our next edition of The Lineup will be in January 2025! We hope you enjoy this exciting publication and encourage you to send us feedback so that our team can work to improve them. [Evelyn Begley, Kevin Carter]

Save the date -- February 19th -- because on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, anyone can join me for "Connect 2 Baseball" at 11 am located at Caring Kind, 360 Lexington Avenue, a block south of Grand Central. This leisurely, fun one-hour program brings together a handful of people who are experiencing the beginnings of dementia with local SABR members who enjoy reminiscing about baseball. All the participants enjoy the time watching short video clips, sharing memories, and talking about ball games, ballplayers, teams, and so forth.

Contact me at email Evelyn for answers to any questions you might have. [Evelyn Begley]

CONTACT US:

As always -- if anyone has any questions, comments and/or suggestions -- please email us at questions-comments@sabrnyc.org and your inquiry will be directed to the person(s) best suited to answer. [Kevin Carter]