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Hall of Merit— A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best
Friday, June 09, 2006
Hall of Merit at the SABR Convention
So who is gong to be in Seattle at the end of the month? I’m arriving Tuesday evening, staying until late Sunday night. John isn’t going to be able to make it this year.
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1. JoeD has the Imperial March Stuck in His Head Posted: June 09, 2006 at 06:17 AM (#2057409)I've got a list of primates (defined as loosely as possible) who have expressed interest in SABR-Cons over the years in post #3 in this thread.
HoM-rs (past and current) on the list include:
4) Me - going
5) Treder - going (not really a HoM but I keep seeing his name in the threads lately)
14) Dimino. Wants to go but rumor has it he blew as his discrensionary money getting creamed at poker last year in Toronto.
16) David Jones - going & running the Dead Ball Committee meeting
23) Eric Enders - don't know, but he might
26) Grandma - nope
29) Dick Thompson. No idea. Not sure if he'd want to speak to HoMrs if he did go.
30) Paul Wendt. Apparently going and running the 19th Century Committee meeting
37) Craig Burley. Didn't he post in the primoridal HoM threads or something? Regardless, he ain't going
40) Mike Webber. Maybe - I'm not sure
55) Max Parkinson - I'm under the impression he isn't going.
That's everyone I can find associated with the HoM, but there's 67 names on the list altogether, most of whom ain't going.
I wont be able to attend the Negro League convention, it also appears. Guess I'll have to wait until next year to see everybody again, which I definitely will attend.
29) Dick Thompson. No idea. Not sure if he'd want to speak to HoMrs if he did go.
I believe he would make the sign of the cross in any of our presences. :-)
Favre, stop over! Email me off line and I'll get you my cell phone number so you can contact me that week.
Webber will definitely be there.
Max sent me a note a few weeks back, that I keep forgetting to respond to. IIRC he said he was a maybe . . .
Probably 2008, Tom - that decision should be announced during the convention.
-- MWE
Same here, although transportation is a little iffy in my case.
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16) David Jones - going & running the Dead Ball Committee meeting
23) Eric Enders - don't know, but he might
26) Grandma - nope
29) Dick Thompson. No idea. Not sure if he'd want to speak to HoMrs if he did go.
30) Paul Wendt. Apparently going and running the 19th Century Committee meeting
Bad news. It looks like you have five No s on the list. David Jones and I have arranged for others to lead the Deadball Era (Thursday 8:00am) and 19th Century (8:00am) annual meetings. Eric Enders is DEC vice chair, but someone told me he was asked to run the meeting, so I wonder about EE.
Dick Thompson is the 2004 Bob Davids Award winner (SABR's career honor) but he declined to serve on the selection committee composed of the three most recent, same as last year when he did not go to the convention. In that context and another, I've heard that he will not be present. He does know that Wes Ferrell is in the Hall of Merit.
I have spoken to KJOK, Gary A, and El Chaleeko recently.
KJ plans to be in Seattle.
FYI, I understand that Dick Clark and Larry Lester will not be there. The Negro Leagues Courier this month announced another person to chair their meeting.
Sean Forman (baseball-reference, baseball-databank) will be there. I believe he will welcome anyone who wants to volunteer but you may need to seek him out as he is not on the program.
DL from MN? likely, I guess
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One thing I have discussed with each of the bold, Greg Bond of the African-American Base Ball electorate, and Rick Benner, Collegiate Baseball Cmte, is logging 19c games outside the majors, certainly all games played by professional black teams (even against picked nines), probably all games played by college clubs (maybe importing from some Athletic Depts with 19c history). All else is unclear. Well, beside game data we will note sources with codes such as "B" box score, "S" story.
The bold all think its great that someone might begin doing this work, and a few of them may join in. Most of them, like Bond and Benner, have personal research programs in place. My guess is, something led by 19c Cmte (me) will begin soon, probably a pilot project.
I'm wondering whether to go for a grass roots project such as June 1896 in "all" daily newspapers; that is, recruit people to commit to the newspaper unit. In my dreams, I think we should do 1856 completely, all mentions of base ball; and pilot 1876, 1896, 1916, bringing in the Deadball Erans. Note, this would be a census of newspapers and writers where they begin to sign boxes or game stories, as well as a census of games. And clubs: we don't generally know clubs; we know "Williams College" and "Cuban Giants" but logging games will be the principal method for compiling a long list of clubs.
in fact the convention program is on-line now
SABR 36 Program PDF
The attendees as of May 18 are on page 43
Of course if you aren't free that week, you can always come to Kansas City July 7-9
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I wasn't at all surprised by the result, although I was surprised that I got as many votes as I did (and also that around 30 people who voted for VP and Secretary didn't vote for someone for Director).
I see that Paul, Mike W., and I are all on-site judges as well (along with a couple of other Primates).
-- MWE
I wasn't at all surprised by the result, although I was surprised that I got as many votes as I did (and also that around 30 people who voted for VP and Secretary didn't vote for someone for Director).
What the? When I got the ballot it looked like there were three people running (you, Maury, & Traven) for 3 slots on the board. What did I misunderstand when reading it?
I see that Paul, Mike W., and I are all on-site judges as well (along with a couple of other Primates).
Who are the other primate judges? Last year all we had was Rauseo.
KJ plans to be in Seattle.
Unfortunately, just a day or two after that, my plans all fell through, and I almost certainly won't be in Seattle.
However, it will take something major to prevent my from being in St. Louis next year...
I think you have mistaken me for someone else. The DL is for Dan Landherr.
Uh-oh. Maybe confused by M, M, and M. Will some Andy McCue supporter revive DMNieporent's nasty Fall 2000 signature?
(I paraphrase: If you can read this you must be a Republican.)
Paul, Mike W., and I are all on-site judges as well
I was one judge as of May 18 but I have withdrawn as I will not be there. I named a late addition to the convention rolls and wished Neal Traven good luck. About five minutes later he distributed the renewed appeal for judges.
I think you have mistaken me for someone else. The DL is for Dan Landherr.
Yes, indeed, you are the wrong DL from MN.
Making comments like this is how I slowly learn who some people are not.
Paul:
I'm not Rappaport.
There were three offices up for election: VP (Bill Nowlin running unopposed), Secretary (Neal Traven running unopposed), and Director (Andy McCue, Maury, and I).
-- MWE
Sorry Mike. Had I realized my vote could've made a difference, I would've spent the stamp and voted. Oops. Ah well -- no guarantee I would've voted for you anway. ;)
Trust me - it wouldn't have, even if you HAD voted for me :) Andy got more votes than did Maury and I combined.
-- MWE
Why am I the "wrong" one?
> One of the authors of Paths to Glory
I wrote an article on Gardenhire that was a clutch hit once.
I wish I had the time to attend. Maybe when the kids are older.
The Wrong DL from MN
A true man of the land.
got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
Someone else who gets Weird Al, I see.
-- MWE
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