The SABR Baseball List & Record Book: Baseball's Most Fascinating Records and Unusual Statistics
The Society for American Baseball Researchis 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, includingThe National Pastimeand theBaseball Research Journal, whichSports Illustratedcalled"a sort ofAntioch Reviewfor the diamond set."