LAST UPDATE: Sunday, October 18th - 19:58

- Please pardon our site's appearance while we retool, regroup and rearrange.

- Our last chapter Zoom book talk was with Scott Reich on Wednesday, October 14th. The fascinating backstory he reveals in his book, One Day in September, was explored. Scott described that one day in September when Tim Murnane was honored for his baseball contributions as a major league player, player-manager, sportswriter and league organizer.

Following a fatal heart attack, Tim's fans, followers, and far-off supporters gathered at Fenway on September 27th, 1917 to watch two all star-caliber teams -- one of them with Babe Ruth as the starting pitcher -- compete on behalf of Murnane.

Scott provided the full story and follows through on how that one game eventually led to today's annual All Star game. A replay of the event is available by clicking on the button below.

- The Casey Stengel Chapter had its first in-person meeting of the SABR year on Saturday, October 10th at Finnerty's Sports Bar. Finnerty's is located near Fifth Avenue at 18 West 33rd Street, around the corner from the Empire State Building. The meeting's program can be viewed by clicking here to open Adobe Acrobat .pdf file.

Speakers included Eric Kabakoff, June Koffi, Dr. Jeffrey L. Young and David Fenichel as well as our favorite trivia master Eric Weiss. Eric K. is the author of Rally Caps, Rain Delays and Racing Sausages: A Fan's Quest to See the Game from a Seat in Every Ballpark. Dr. Jeffrey is the author of Bridges Through Basebal: Baseball Stories That Connect Us All! June is a retired librarian and artist with an interest in the Negro Leagues, baseball books, the New York Mets, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. David presented his research project to have a Jackie Robinson statue in the proximity of where Ebbets Field once stood to welcome Brooklyn's baseball fans.

We thank everyone who attended, participated and presented. If anyone has pictures they'd like to share here of this fun event, please send them to questions-comments@sabrnyc.org.

[Damian Begley, Evelyn Begley, Kevin Carter, Marc Gold]

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 latest 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 2026! 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]

As some of you know, the SABR fiscal year runs from June 1st to May 31st. As required by SABR and our Chapter ByLaws we submitted our annual report on May 30th. Please click on the Adobe Acrobat link below to load and read the .pdf file of your chapter's annual report. As always, if anyone has any questions, please email us at questions-comments@sabrnyc.org and your inquiry will be directed to the person(s) best suited to answer. [Kevin Carter]

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City (2024) by NYC SABR member Kevin Baker has won the 2025 Ron Gabriel Award! Baker's award-winning masterpiece has proved worthy of this award, given for the best research in a given year on the subject of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Well-deserved congratulations!

Brooklyn-born Ron Gabriel, who founded and was president of the Brooklyn Dodger Fan Club, was a charter elected member of the Brooklyn Dodger Hall of Fame until his death in 2009. On the Smithsonian Institute website, you can see young Ron as a child in his Dodger uniform meeting Babe Ruth around 1948 as well as other visuals and written material among Gabriel's many donated baseball collections.

The Ron Gabriel Award, given out by SABR’s Casey Stengel Chapter in New York City, 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.

Anyone can nominate research about the Brooklyn Dodgers -- even unpublished research -- in any aspect of their history. Just contact Gary Sarnoff or Evelyn Begley as we begin 2026 in search of wonderful research about Dem Bums! As Gary Sarnoff says, "Everyone is more than welcome to join our committee and join in on the fun." You will be sent reading material and you will vote on the next Ron Gabriel Award. [Evelyn Begley, Kevin Carter]

Save the date -- October 21st -- 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]