{"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":"

From SABR’s Susan Petrone<\/em>: The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is giving away The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2010 <\/em>to the world baseball community. Developed in the spirit of the classic guides published by the Sporting News<\/em>, Spalding, and Reach, 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

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

\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 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

The Emerald Guide<\/em> editors include Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer, who co-edited previous versions of the Emerald Guide<\/em> and were co-editors of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2010<\/em> is available as a free PDF download from <\/strong>http:\/\/sabr.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year Justin Murphy discussed the Emerald Guide with Gary Gillette.\u00c2\u00a0 Click here<\/a> to read that interview.<\/em><\/p>\n


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