{"id":877,"date":"2008-03-24T01:24:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T01:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=877"},"modified":"2013-12-01T01:24:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T01:24:45","slug":"sabr-rattling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"SABR Rattling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend at the\u00a0NYC SABR<\/a>\u00a0meeting, spoke very briefly about\u00a0the book,<\/a>\u00a0and even signed and sold a few.<\/p>\n

The Casey Stengel chapter meeting retained its usual time-machine vibe: not so much retro as reminiscent. It\u2019s full of guys who remember when the Dodgers and Giants were the local teams, speak with thick New York accents, and dress in sweats. As opposed to the scene at the national meeting, the presentations are decidedly low-tech and tend to focus more sharply on history than on cutting-edge analysis, although many members seem conversant in that language too. It would be great to see more young people get involved in this group, I\u2019d be happy to tell you how.<\/p>\n

A highlight for me was hearing some great authors speak. Michael Shapiro, whose THE LAST GOOD SEASON<\/a>\u00a0not only tells a suspenseful story of a great pennant race but dares to set the record straight on the Dodgers\u2019 fateful move to California, was especially engaging and afterward signed a beaten-up copy of his book I\u2019d remembered to take along. My brief talk was as part of a panel that included Tony Morante and Al Santasiere, who put together a handsome\u00a0coffee table book\u00a0<\/a>on the history of Yankee Stadium; and Greg Spira, who co-edited\u00a0MEET THE METS<\/a>\u00a0with my co-writer,\u00a0Matthew Silverman<\/a>, who was also there selling books. Morante, who has led tours through Yankee Stadium for nearly 30 years, wore a Yankees World Series ring the size of my wristwatch.
\nI also enjoyed schmoozing with attendees including Steve and Pedro from On the Sportlines; Michael Cesarano, who\u00a0knows a few things about Mets uniforms<\/a>; Andrew Schiff, author of a\u00a0new biography of Henry Chadwick<\/a>\u00a0I brought home with me; and Dana Brand, who traded me his book,METS FAN<\/a>, even-up for mine. I opened up Dana\u2019s book on a bus ride to the in-laws immediately after the meeting, and almost felt like a thief.<\/p>\n

More hobnobbing to come when Matt Silverman and I host a \u201claunch party\u201d for Mets by the Numbers Sunday April 6 at\u00a0Stout NYC<\/a>\u00a0in Manhattan. The party is an informal get-together timed to coincide with the Mets-Braves game from Atlanta that afternoon. We\u2019ll have copies on the book on-hand and available to sign. I’d love to meet some of the regular reader\/contributors to the web site, hope you can come by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend at the\u00a0NYC SABR\u00a0meeting, spoke very briefly about\u00a0the book,\u00a0and even signed and sold a few. The Casey Stengel chapter meeting retained its usual time-machine vibe: not so much retro as reminiscent. It\u2019s full of guys who remember when the Dodgers and Giants were the local teams, speak with thick New York accents, and … Continue reading “SABR Rattling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}