Baseball DIY

While wandering around The Diamond Angle I found a review of SABR's convention reports (that's the Society of American Baseball Research) that includes some really fascinating stuff. The publication, Road Trips, is a sampler of 53 presentations and short papers from past SABR conventions. It includes subjects as varied as Bud Fowler (who I'm already fascinated by), the history of the Dodgers Spring Training Complex in Vero Beach, the politics that went into forming the AL and the saga of the 1878 Buffalo Bisons. As the review mentions, SABR is home for a lot folks who are passionate about all aspects of the game and they can lead convention attendees into areas of baseball history that most fans have never heard of, or even considered studying. But that is what always make a convention cool; someone else has done all the research for you and you just get to sit back and listen and learn.

Or you could read about it while enjoying some sunshine. I'm going outside, you go read.