LAST UPDATE: Friday, April 25th 09:18

Chapter members and friends,

Last April, the Casey Stengel Chapter held its first open board meeting and the CSC Board of Directors will again meet via Zoom on Wednesday, April 30 at 7:00 PM ET. We plan to summarize the activities our chapter has done since last summer, which was when our chapter achieved the top level of an MVP chapter. The meeting is open to all chapter members and the public as well. Please check your chapter email to view the meeting log-in information. Non-members wishing to attend, please email us at questions-comments@sabrnyc.org and we'll send Zoom details.

Thank you for contributing as always to our chapter. [Evelyn Begley, Kevin Carter]

Voting is now underway to elect two Casey Stengel Chapter Board members. The two offices open for balloting are Vice President and Director at Large. Voting is open to chapter members only so please check your chapter email for the voting ballot link. If you do not get a link, please feel free to email us at questions-comments@sabrnyc.org and we'll send one manually. The 2-week window for voting began on April 17th and will end on May 1st at midnight. [Evelyn Begley, Kevin Carter]

Qualifications for Vice President are: The Vice President assumes the duties of the President in the absence of the President. The Vice President works with the President on all meetings and Chapter activities. The Vice President facilitates the appointment of chairs to any standing committees.

Candidate: Marc Gold I would be pleased to be part of the Casey Stengel Chapter Board of Directors as Vice president. I have had experience with ballplayers as well as executives of the Mets and the Yankees through the years, as well as their minor league affiliates. I have conducted lengthy interviews with former Mets Ed Kranepool, and Ron Hunt and can speak of their hopes, desires, and disappointments through the years. I presented a paper at the Hofstra University sponsored Mets 50th anniversary in 2012. As a 14 year old, I formed the first NY Mets Fan Club. I have correspondence from original Mets PR director Tom Meany, including a letter from Mr. Meany commenting on Casey Stengel’s reaction to our fan club. Our company, Gold’s, has been a sponsor of the NY Mets, Brooklyn Cyclones, Staten island Yankees, and various other teams. We have also sponsored MSG, The NY Islanders, as well as other teams and venues. We were the “Mustard of the Mets” from 1997 to 2015, when we sold our company. Alas, the new owners did not see the value of sponsoring professional sports teams. I can speak of the business of baseball from that perspective. As a fan of baseball in the 60s, through 2025. I can speak on the pluses and minuses of each of the eras. I suffered through most of the eras as a Met fan, and can speak of the tears. My goal would be to increase membership and generate excitement in the Chapter by following direction and mentorship.

Qualifications for Director at Large are: The Director at Large is a voting member of the Board and participates in Board activities. At the discretion of the President, the Director at Large may fill in for other Board members.

Candidate: Damian Begley In the past year I've been part of the team that established the Bylaws for the Casey Stengel Chapter. Co-hosted a baseball discussion group with an organization called Caring Kind. This helped us attain MVP Chapter status from SABR, resulting in a $500 award for the chapter. Attended the Chapter Leaders meeting at the national SABR convention. I will continue with this work for the Casey Stengel Chapter as Director at Large, with a goal of achieving MVP Chapter status again. Candidate: Roberta J. Newman Statement pending.

Our next virtual chapter Zoom book discussion will be on April 22nd, at 7:00 ET. Our guest will be John Nogowski and he will give a presentation on his latest book, Diamond Duels: Baseball's Greatest Matchups.

In Diamond Duels: Baseball’s Greatest Matchups, we take a magnifying glass to some of the game’s most entertaining and historic battles between hitters and pitchers, played out over breezy spring evenings, hot summer afternoons, and chilly fall evenings as the long, rumbling baseball season finally winds down. Then we look closer.

As a sport with such a rich and diverse history, baseball offers us a long and fascinating recounting of so many of those dramatic matchups — if you know where to look. There are many untold stories inside the box scores...

Pre-registration is required for this event. Chapter members please check your email for registration details. Non-chapter members are also warmly welcomed and can get registration information by emailing us at questions-comments@sabrnyc.org. [Kevin Carter]

Our SABR Casey Stengel Chapter NYC in-person meeting was on Saturday, March 29, 2025 at Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave. between 37th and 38th Streets — a short walk from Grand Central Terminal.

The Pulse of New York Baseball: Present and Past, with panelists Laura Albanese, Billy Altman and Anthony McCarron, was the first presentation. We heard your many 'Bring Them Back' requests, so the dynamic trio wowed us again on the Scandinavia House stage. Their all-new 2025 presentation elicited rave reviews.

“Mets Stories I Only Tell My Friends” and Other First-Hand Baseball Stories with Art Shamsky, Matthew Silverman, and moderator Marty Appel gave the second presentation. Art Shamsky is riding high with his new book! Shamsky, a passionate baseball man, was joined by equally passionate co- author Matt Silverman and Marty Appel, all well known to New Yorkers and beyond. Their lively conversation brought forth secrets and insights and was an hour like no other!

Both presentations were followed by a Q & A. Participant bios are in the meeting link below.

Lastly, Eric Weiss, baseball trivia master, tested everyone's baseball knowledge. [Evelyn Begley, Kevin Carter]

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 April 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]

Our annual virtual chapter meeting, honoring SABR DAY 2025, was on Saturday, February 22nd!

Keynote speaker, Kevin Baker, discussed 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

For those who missed this wonderful presentation, or just wants to re-watch it, please click on the play button below. Tell your family and friends! [Evelyn Begley, Kevin Carter]

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]

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, Bruce Slutsky]

Save the date -- April 16th -- 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]

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For 27 years PowerPlay has provided over 900 hours of sports-based after school and summer programming annually to 1,000 youth (ages 5-18) in 30 sites across the five boroughs of New York City.

To learn more please visit — www powerplaynyc.org .Thank you!

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]