The Baseball Research Journal; Thirteenth Annual Historical and Statistical Review of the Society for American Baseball Research

Cooperstown, NY: The Society for American Baseball Research, Inc, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Magazine. Very good. 88 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This issue marked a change of editors and an enlargement of the journal's format to be the same as that of the sister publication, The National Pastime. The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball. Established in Cooperstown, New York, in August 1971 by sportswriter Bob Davids. While the acronym "SABR" may have lent its root to the word sabermetrics (for the use of sophisticated mathematical tools to analyze baseball), the Society is about much more than statistics. Well known figures in the baseball world such as Bob Costas, Keith Olbermann, Craig R. Wright, and Rollie Hemond are members, along with highly regarded "sabermetricians" such as Bill James and Rob Neyer. Among Major League players Jeff Bajenaru was believed to have been (until 2006) the only active player with a SABR membership; Elden Auker, Larry Dierker, and Andy Seminick also have been involved. The Baseball Research Journal (BRJ) is SABR's flagship publication since 1972 for members to publish and share their research with like-minded students of baseball. BRJ provides a unique mix of cutting-edge baseball research and historical and biographical articles.