Society for American Baseball Research

The Society for American Baseball Research is a thirty-five-year-old nonprofit organization whose 7,200 members include university professors; television commentators; baseball journalists; Major League executives; great writers and historians such as Bill James, Andrew Zimbalist, John Thorn, and Alan Schwarz; and former players such as Stan Musial, Larry Dierker, and Jim Bouton. SABR publishes several annuals, including "The National Pastime" and the "Baseball Research Journal", which "Sports Illustrated" called

"a sort of "Antioch Review" for the diamond set."