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The Newsletter of the Halsey Hall Chapter
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)


November 2020

Editor:
Stew Thornley

Index to past stories in The Holy Cow!

  • Halsey Hall Fall Virtual Chapter Meeting Set for November 7
  • New Member
  • First-Time SABR Authors
  • Copies of Minnesotans in Baseball Available at Low Price
  • Cow Pies
  • Calendar
  • Board of Directors
  • Resources

    Halsey Hall Fall Virtual Chapter Meeting Set for November 7
    The Halsey Hall Chapter spring meeting will be held on-line on Saturday, November 7 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A link will be sent to all chapter members before the meeting. Members may begin gathering on the site at 9:30 to chat. Here is the lineup of events, to be moderated by Your Sports Voice, Howard Luloff:

    The meeting will feature three research presentation:

    • 10:00-10:15: Opening Session
    • 10:15-10:45: Stew Thornley—Andy Oyler’s Two-foot Home Run: Is It Okay to Destroy a Legend?
    • 10:45-11:00: Break
    • 11:00-11:30: Chapter Semi-Annual Business Meeting
    • 11:30-Noon: Corky Gaskell—Doc Adams: His Life and Accomplishments
    • Noon-12:30: Dirk Lammers—None-and-Done: The Moonlight Grahams of No-hit Debuts

    The semi-annual business meeting will also be held. The business will include a proposed amendment to the By-Laws regarding ARTICLE 1: CHAPTER, Section 2-By-Laws, which now reads:

    These By-Laws are intended to supplement and be deemed subordinate to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Wherever any conflict shall arise between any provisions thereof and such Constitution and By-Laws of SABR, the latter shall prevail.

    The proposed amendment:

    Add to end of ARTICLE I: CHAPTER, Section 2-By-Laws: The Halsey Hall Chapter will follow all provisions of SABR, including its Code of Conduct.

    If passed, the revised section in its entirety, will read:

    These By-Laws are intended to supplement and be deemed subordinate to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Wherever any conflict shall arise between any provisions thereof and such Constitution and By-Laws of SABR, the latter shall prevail. The Halsey Hall Chapter will follow all provisions of SABR, including its Code of Conduct.

    The board of directors endorsed this amendment, which requires an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting.

    The chapter board also approved a change to the Research Committee procedures, which included the addition of “One presentation slot will be reserved for a first-time presenter until four weeks before the chapter meeting” and that "“The committee will coordinate the schedule with the chair of the Events Committee and the presenters to discuss technology needs along with the timing of the presentations and the timing cues that will be used. Proposals for poster presentations will be accepted and approved with a similar process. Presenters must be members in good standing of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Halsey Hall Chapter.” In addition, a bulleted item was added to the committee duties: “Prepare a report of Research Committee activities and present it for the semi-annual chapter meetings.”

    The procedures for the Research Committee, with these changes, are at Procedures for the Research Committee.

    A list of all procedures is at Chapter Procedures.

    Other Events
    The Halsey Hall Chapter is invited to join the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter for a virtual meeting Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. The guest will be an official scorer from one of the chapters who will discuss official scoring. It will include a brief history of official scoring, relevant current topics, and it will include video clips of plays to allow participants to vote on whether they would rule them as a hit or error. A link for the meeting will be sent out to all chapter members a half-hour before the meeting starts. Meanwhile, the Keltner Badger State Chapter has a newsletter worth purusing: Keltner’s Hot Corner

    The Research Committee will meet on Zoom November 2 and December 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. At the December 14 meeting, all members are invited to report on their research projects, seek tips, and/or make suggestions. Anyone wanting to participate may contact co-chairs Brenda Himrich or Stew Thornley, 651-415-0791.

    The Research Committee consists of Brenda Himrich, Sarah Johnson, Dan Levitt, Jim Cox, Doug Skipper, Stew Thornley, Rich Arpi, Dave Lande, Anders Koskinen, Hans Van Slooten, Gene Gomes, and Bob Tholkes.

    A virtual chat among contributors to Baseball’s Biggest Blowout Games featuring featuring contributors to the book will be held via Zoom on Saturday, November 21 from 9 to 10 a.m. Published by SABR in September 2020, Baseball’s Biggest Blowout Games chronicles the largest routs since 1901, including four winning games by the Minnesota Twins. Contributing authors to the book’s 159 stories include Halsey Hall Chapter members Brent Heutmaker, Anders Koskinen, Joel Rippel, and Stew Thornley. A message with the Zoom information will be emailed to all chapter members 15 minutes before the start of the chat.

    The Halsey Hall Chapter Book Club will meet virtually Saturday, December 12 at 9:30 a.m. The book selection is 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid by Willie Mays and John Shea.

    Brent Heutmaker has organized a list of all the book selections since the book club started in August 2002: Halsey Hall Book Club Selections

    The Fred Souba Hot Stove Saturday Morning, an informal breakfast gathering for the purpose of talking baseball, will be on hold for a while, either until it is safe to gather indoors again or when it is possible to meet outdoors.

    Keep up to date with chapter activities on social media:

    SABR Halsey Hall Chapter Facebook page

    Halsey Hall Chapter Twitter page

    Please visit both pages, and, if you haven’t yet, “Like” the Facebook page and “Follow” the Twitter page and set your notifications to be alerted to new posts.

    Also:

    Regular Events

    Video Archives of Past Events

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    New Member
    The Halsey Hall Chapter welcomes Dan Schultz to SABR.

    Free student memberships available: SABR, at its 2019 End of Year Campaign, pledged to donate 10 percent of all member gifts back to the Chapters the donors are affiliated with in the form of free student memberships. Halsey Hall Chapter members donated more than $2,800 during the campaign, resulting in 11 free student SABR memberships. The chapter has committed to pay for four additional student memberships if that many are interested.

    Know a potential member? Here are resources for getting that person happily involved in SABR:

    Membership application

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    First-Time SABR Authors
    Jim Cox is asking for all Halsey Hall Chapter members who had their first article published by SABR in 2020 to contact him. He is looking into how best to recognize them and maintain a record of first-time SABR authors within the chapter. This could be for any article, research paper, biography, game story, or anything else published by SABR via its various formats. If you are one of these folks, please contact Jim at jcox321@hotmail.com.

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    Copies of Minnesotans in Baseball Available at Low Price
    In 2007 the chapter compiled a book, Minnesotans in Baseball, that was published by Nodin Press of Minneapolis. Norton Stillman, the owner of Nodin Press, has about 230 copies of the book left. Rather than turn them to pulp, Norton is offering them to chapter members at an incredible price. The books are in boxes of 15 each, and a box can be purchased for $30. Anyone purchasing at least one box can also buy whatever additional loose copies are available at $2 each.

    The plan for those interested is to meet at the Nodin Press office in St. Louis Park at 10 a.m. on Saturday, November 14. Those who aren’t able to be there at that time can make other arrangements although people are urged to come on the 14th if possible to minimize the hassle of it all. Norton will need to know how many boxes are spoken for a few days in advance so he can have them taken out of the warehouse.

    Anyone wanting a box or more may contact Stew Thornley by Monday, November 9.

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    Cow Pies
    Joe Niese has an article, Loose Cannon, in Volume 2 of Turnstile: The SABR Journal of Baseball Art, which is available for a free download from the SABR Baseball Arts Committee.

    Joel Rippel had a game story published in the SABR Games Project: October 6, 1984: Steve Garvey’s Walk-off Home Run Lifts Padres in Game 4 of NLCS. Tom Merrick also had a game story published: May 21, 1913: Gavvy Cravath and Tom Seaton Star as Phillies Crush Cincinnati 12-0.

    Terry Bohn had a biography published for the SABR BioProject: Lee DeMontreville.

    The October or so 2020 issue of the newsletter of the SABR Official Scoring Committee is now on-line.

    Calendar
        November 2—Research Committee meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. For more information, contact Brenda Himrich, 651-415-0791.

        November 7—Fall Virtual Chapter Meeting, 10:00 a.m. (with social at 9:30). For more information, contact Howard Luloff, 952-922-5036.

        November 12—Virtual Meeting with the Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter, 7:00 p.m. Topic is official scoring.

        November 21—Virtual chat about Baseball’s Biggest Blowout Games, 9:00 a.m.

       December 12Book Club via Zoom, 9:30 a.m., 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid by Willie Mays and John Shea.

        December 14—Research Committee meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. For more information, contact Brenda Himrich, 651-415-0791. All members are welcome for research sharing at this meeting.

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    Board of Directors 2020-2021
    President—Dave Lande
    Vice President—Hans Van Slooten
    Secretary—Anders Koskinen
    Treasurer—Jerry Janzen
    Jim Cox
    Gene Gomes
    Frank Kadwell

    Events Committee Chair—Howard Luloff
    Research Committee Co-Chairs and Co-Chair-in-waiting—Brenda Himrich, Stew Thornley, Gene Gomes
    Membership Committee Chair—Frank Kadwell

    The Holy Cow! Editor—Stew Thornley
    Webmaster—John Gregory 
    Ass. Webmasters—Frank Kadwell, Hans Van Slooten, and Stew Thornley
    Social Media Directors—Tom Flynn, Twitter; Bob Komoroski, Facebook

    Halsey Hall Chapter Web Page

    Past issues of The Holy Cow! are available on-line.

    Chapter History

    Chapter Procedures and By-Laws

    Society for American Baseball Research

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    Resources

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