NYC Casey Stengel Chapter of SABR meeting in Midtown Manhattan

 

For the years (excluding the pandemic years) I have been involved with SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) there has been an annual meeting at NYPL or the Scandinavia House in midtown Manhattan.

There were two panel discussions:

• The Pulse of New York Baseball: Present and Past featuring:
• Laura Albanese - writer for Long Island Newsday
• Billy Altman official scorer and former baseball beat writer for the Village Voice
• Anthony McCarron is a freelance writer who has appeared in Baseball Digest and MLB.com. and others

They discussed various issues including analytics and changes in baseball rules over recent years.

• Met Stories I Only Tell My Friends and Other First-Hand Baseball Stories
• Art Shamsky - Member of the 1969 Mets
• Matthew Silverman - author of several baseball books
• Marty Appel - another author of baseball books who was also an executive with the Yankees

Art discussed his recently published book.  I bought a copy that he autographed for me.  The panel discussed the Yankee-Met rivalry including the 2000 World Series.  The panelists concluded that since the Met signed Juan Soto luring him away from the Yankees, the rivalry will heat up again.