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Scope. Baseball by New England SABRen and New England baseball by SABRen who reside elsewhere. Here, "SABRen" are current and former members of the Society for American Baseball Research and friends of The Boston Chapter, SABR. Websites of SABR research committees and regional chapters are not listed here.

Editor Paul Wendt also maintains

  • 19th Century Resources, a website of the 19th Century Committee, SABR
  • Deadball Era Resources, a website of the Deadball Era Committee, SABR
  • five Regional Chapters in New England, an overview with links to their websites, if any

    red marks new listings (most are not new sites)


    Martin Abramowitz [Newton MA]

  • Jewish Major Leaguers: Documenting American Jews in America's Game
    - Card Set: baseball cards of the 142 American Jews who have played major-league baseball
    - Hall of Fame program: 2004 August 29-30


    Kristen D. Cornette [Milford MA]

  • Red Sox Die-Hard - a cornucopia, or horn of plenty
  • example: "The Story of the 1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings or, Why the Red Sox Lost the 1986 World Series" (by KDC)

    four years old, with contributions by many writers


    Peter L. de Rosa [East Walpole MA]
    Editor, Academic Gaming Review

  • Academic Gaming Review - a webzine devoted to classroom gaming.

    Among other things, Academic Gaming Review has published two simple baseball games by Stephen Glenn and an outline for a Baseball History course by Peter de Rosa.


    Kevin Faria [Bristol RI]
    Captain, new Providence Grays

  • Providence Grays - the old Grays, National League Base Ball Club (1878-1885), and the new Grays, 1884-style Vintage Base Ball Club (1998-2002)


    Harvey Frommer [Lyme NH] - new listing, Mar 2004
    Professor, Dartmouth College

  • The Frommers, Myrna K. and Harvey - including "Books" and "Sports"


    Jim Furtado [MA]
    Co-founder, Baseball Think Factory

  • Jim Furtado's Baseball Stuff - articles by several authors, mainly sabermetrics

    Baseball Think Factory appears to be an internet holding company. One holding, Baseball Reference is a brilliant encyclopedia of Major League Baseball historical statistics by co-founder Sean Forman. (Sample the 1912 Boston Red Sox.) Another, Baseball Primer is an important publisher of and forum for baseball analysis.


    Dan Genovese [Westfield MA] - new, Jan 2004

  • Adonis Terry
    A website dedicated to the forgotten hero of 19th century baseball - Adonis Terry. Terry was born in Westfield Massachusetts and had a career worthy of the Hall of Fame but has been sadly forgotten. --DG


    Bill Goff [Kent CT]

  • Good Sports Art - prints, especially ballparks


    Rick Harris [Cranston RI] - new, Feb 2005

  • Rhode Island Historic Baseball Project, 1827-1960


    Paul Healey [Milford MA]

  • Project Ballpark


    Jay Hurd [Cambridge MA]

  • Baseball: History and Spirit - "a work in progress"


    Dick Johnson [Milton MA]
    Curator, The Sports Museum of New England ( official site )
    Co-author, Red Sox Century ( book site, Houghton Mifflin Co. )


    Ethan Lewis [Groton MA]

  • Ethan Lewis
    including "A Structure to Last Forever": The Players' League and the Brotherhood War of 1890, M.A. Thesis, Department of American Studies, Purdue University, 1995.
    The Players' League was the best of three major leagues in 1890. The Brotherhood was the first ballplayers labor union.


    Steve Leveille [Malden MA]

  • The Boston Braves Homepage - including a directory, "The Boston Braves on the Web"


    Steven Mark [Wollaston MA]

  • The Federal League - the third Major League in 1914-1915
    With daily standings and more, 88-89 years ago today, beginning April 2003


    George I. Martin [Oak Ridge NJ]

  • Jack Jensen - featuring The Golden Boy: a biography of Jackie Jensen
  • chapters 9 and 10 ("Golden Glory" and "Ty Cobb's Advice") weblished by The Baseball Library


    Greg Martin [Hartford CT]

  • Hartford Vintage Base Ball Invitational - 2d annual tournament: 5-7 July 2002, 16 teams
  • Vintage Base Ball Factory
    VBBF: Manufacturer and distributor of replica 19th century baseball sporting goods including baseballs, uniforms, gloves and bats for collectors, fans and today's vintage base ball clubs. --GM


    Arthur K. Miller [York Beach ME]

  • The Art of the Game - paintings and photo prints


    Carl Morris [Newton MA]

  • Carl N. Morris, Professor of Statistics (select "Sports Articles")
    Carl Morris' model of "Runs per Game" for individual players was presented to the local chapter of the ASA and garnered attention on SABR-L and by ESPN, Fall 2002.


    David Nevard [Waltham MA]
    Editor, A Red Sox Journal, 1985-2002 (Norman Neu, Publisher)

  • The Buffalo Head Society
  • example: A Visitor's Guide to Boston Baseball
  • example: Who Was Piper Davis? - with David Marasco [Evanston IL], on the first black player in the Boston Red Sox organization, 1950
  • example: The Bison Den - book reviews by David Nevard, Joe Kuras, et al.


    Rob Neyer [Seattle WA]
    baseball writer, ESPN

  • Rob Neyer
  • example: Baseball Dynasties, by Neyer and Epstein, is mainly about Boston. (April Fool!)


    Charlie O'Reilly [Rutherford NJ]

  • Charlie's Big Baseball Parks Page - photos and vital data for 217 ballparks, including Fenway Park and 14 minor league ballparks in New England (count, 2002-05-13)
  • example: Fraser Field, Lynn MA


    Doug Pappas [Hartsdale NY]
    Chairman, Business of Baseball Committee, SABR

  • Doug's Business of Baseball Pages
  • example: Boston Baseball columns - including "The Emperor Has No Clothes", a six-part review of John Harrington's career with the Red Sox front office (1999)
  • example: MLB Labor and Contraction - including a series on MLB finances published by BaseballProspectus (2001-2002)


    Rick Phelps [AZ and Chatham MA]

  • Great American Pastime League - a "Diamond Mind" league (see Tom Tippett)


    Matthew Rauseo [Beverly MA] - down, Winter 2003

  • Four Aces - mainly sabermetrics: essays and annotated links


    Jim Regan [Melrose MA]
    Captain, Melrose MA Pondfeilders

  • Pondfeilders Vintage Base Ball Club - named for the olden village, Pondfeilde, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony


    Scott Schuster [Natick MA]

  • Candid Critic: Sports - baseball and lesser sports


    David Southwick [South Boston MA]

  • Old-Time Boston Baseball & World Series News - re-presents 1901-1919 Boston Red Sox and World Series game stories, articles from Baseball Magazine, and reports by Boston correspondents of The Sporting News
  • examples: 1903 World Series, Game One, in the Boston Globe and in the New York Times


    Glenn Stout [Uxbridge MA]
    Co-author, Red Sox Century ( book site, Houghton Mifflin Co. ); author, Yankee Century ( book blurb, HMCo. )

  • Glenn Stout - Books by G.S., with reprints of some articles, reviews, poems by G.S.


    Cecilia Tan [Cambridge MA]

  • Why I Like Baseball - Essays
  • example: Traveling the Bambino Road with Cecilia Tan, beginning 6 Mar 2003, North Carolina - a daily journal of "a drive through the the south in search of baseball landmarks"
    Cecilia Tan is also a frequent contributor to YankeeBaseball


    Tom Tippett [Lexington MA]

  • Diamond Mind Baseball - selling and supporting the "Diamond Mind" computer baseball simulation game.

    "We also spend a lot of time analyzing play-by-play data from STATS and Retrosheet. Those studies help us rate players and make the game itself more realistic and accurate, and our site contains a few dozen research articles that we've written based on that work." --TT
    Tom Tippett won the USAToday Baseball Weekly Award for "best research presentation, oral" at the 32d Annual Convention, SABR (Boston, 2002). He presented research undertaken in development of the Diamond Mind game.


    Craig Tomarkin [Fairfield CT]

  • Baseball Guru - Articles by several "gurus", Web Tour, Fantasy Insider, and more

    Craig Tomarkin offers a personal website within BaseballGuru to any SABR member. For now (confirmed 2002-05-18), this is an "unlimited" offer. Baseball only. Nothing obscene. Authors retain all copyrights. The Guru reserves the right to edit or to naysay. If you have no website, then consider the Baseball Guru. For example, visit John Holway or Max Blue.


    John Vorperian [White Plains NY]
    Coordinator, Westchester Baseball Group - monthly meetings in Yonkers NY

  • Johnny V Sports - notes on sports books and sports business, baseball and football


    Ken and Paula Weaver [Orange CT]

  • K & P WEAVER - 19th Century Reproduction Base Ball Uniforms, Equipment, & more (also some 19cBB books, some Civil War reproductions)


    Paul Wendt [Watertown MA]
    Chairman, 19th Century Committee, SABR

  • Baseballist Gravesites in New England - including all HOF members, several others
  • Total Baseball editions - Statistics in the TB Registers (finished); TB Tables of Contents (a wreck)


    Allan Wood [New York NY]

  • 1918 - featuring the book 1918: Babe Ruth and the World Champion Boston Red Sox
    - with coverage of The Search for Babe Ruth's Piano
  • Pedro Martinez and the 2002 Red Sox - with a variety of unexpected things including sportswriter affiliations and eddresses


    Keith Woolner [San Jose CA]
    Moderator, rec.sport.baseball.analysis (news) and BOSOX@apple.ease.lsoft.com (email)
    Founder, StatHead.com

  • Boston Red Sox stats and FAQ - with articles from or about the BOSOX email list


    Laura Wulf [Jamaica Plain MA]
    Photographer, Light Years Photography

  • Colorado Silver Bullets - photos
  • The Women's Pro Game, weblished by Elysian Fields Quarterly - photos by Laura Wulf and diary excerpts by Terri Lynn Herbst on "the short-lived Ladies Professional League (1998)"

    2002-05-10
    Last modified 2005-02-10 (Harris, Abramowitz update)
    Paul Wendt
    © Society for American Baseball Research, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005