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As appears to be the case yearly, the annual SABR conference was an absolute blast! For any occasion of this magnitude, a lot of the success is the results of laborious work, cautious planning, and gifted folks. This yr, nonetheless, some unplanned bits most undoubtedly certified for the spotlight reel.
For instance, how about when the man within the viewers sporting a Carlos Baerga jersey seems to be none apart from Carlos Baerga! (He drove two hours to see the nice Puerto Rican baseball historian Jorge Colon Delgado honored by our SABR Latino Committee.) And will anybody have imagined our livestream of the very first Girls’s Skilled Baseball League recreation would come with a fully bonkers Los Angeles comeback for the ages!
However sufficient about precise baseball and ballplayers. Let’s get to the cardboard, and we’ll begin with the query lots of you’ve gotten already requested: “How can I get a kind of superior (and FREE!) Burdick Award playing cards that includes 2026 winner Gary Cieradkowski?”
Aside from in-person pickup for members native to the Midwest Satellite tv for pc Workplace, there are two methods to go:
- Ship a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) to committee co-chair Jason Schwartz
- Or, for quicker service, skip the envelope and stamp and head here as an alternative.
And at last, listed here are only a handful of further baseball card-related highlights from our time in Cleveland:
- The aforementioned Gary Cieradkowski was available to obtain his Burdick Award trophy in individual!
- A document 458 “enjoyable packs” had been distributed in registration baggage.
- Greater than 95 members attended Pack Evening, and practically 1,000 packs had been opened.
- On a associated observe, Phil Rosenzweig introduced the best ever pile of packs to a Pack Evening this aspect of Twitterless Wealthy!
- Two conference posters contained important baseball card content material whereas a number of others used a number of baseball playing cards in additional ornamental methods.
- Phil Rosenzweig was honored with the celebrated Larry Ritter Award for his wonderful ebook, One Splendid Season, which tells the story of the 1912 baseball season via the medium of the T202 Hassan Triple Folders set.
- Committee vice-chair Matthew Glidden debuted his wonderful convention-themed Notable Subjects set.
- SABR Latino committee chair and baseball card fanatic Anthony Salazar was honored with the celebrated Bob Davids Award.
- A terrific art show organized by the identical Anthony Salazar included quite a few baseball card-themed items.
- Our very personal SABR Baseball Playing cards Analysis Committee acquired “All-Star” standing and seems effectively on the way in which to MVP in 2027.
With that, see you in Birmingham, August 4-8, 2027, for SABR 55!
