{"id":2111,"date":"2010-02-10T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T00:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2010-02-10T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T00:48:44","slug":"sabr-offers-2010-emerald-guide-as-free-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/sabr-offers-2010-emerald-guide-as-free-download\/","title":{"rendered":"SABR OFFERS 2010 EMERALD GUIDE AS FREE DOWNLOAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From SABR&#8217;s Susan Petrone<\/em>: The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is giving away <em>The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2010 <\/em>to the world baseball community.<!--more--> Developed in the spirit of the classic guides published by the <em>Sporting News<\/em>, Spalding, and Reach, <em>The Emerald Guide<\/em> includes all pitching, hitting, and fielding statistics for every player active in the major and minor leagues during 2009. Other features include team histories, up-to-date team contact information and schedules, an extensive Year in Review essay, team day-by-day game logs, All-Star Game box score and play-by play, post-season box scores and play-by-play, transactions, debuts, first-year player draft, and major and minor league necrology.<\/p>\n<p>A bound version is available via print on demand at Lulu.com for $24.95. The electronic version of the Guide contains all of the pages of the printed version.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153SABR is a leader in providing historical and current information about America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbaseball,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says SABR Executive Director John Zajc. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are also part of a larger movement toward open source sharing of information. Giving away <em>The Emerald Guide<\/em> as a free download is in line with that philosophy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d SABR will delve further into its commitment to open source sharing with the SABR Encyclopedia, an online wiki-style encyclopedia that is currently in development and scheduled to go live to the public later this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Emerald Guide<\/em> editors include Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer, who co-edited previous versions of the <em>Emerald Guide<\/em> and were co-editors of the <em>ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2010<\/em> is available as a free PDF download from <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sabr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/sabr.org<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Last year Justin Murphy discussed the Emerald Guide with Gary Gillette.\u00c2\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/touring-the-bases-withgary-gillette\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> to read that interview.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From SABR&#8217;s Susan Petrone: The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is giving away The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2010 to the world baseball community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}