Lee Lowenfish

REFLECTIONS ON SABR 39 AND THE CONTINUING DECLINE OF MY WOERIOLES
I just returned from SABR’s 39th national convention (Society for American Baseball Research) at the JW Marriott Hotel near the White House in Washington, DC. Too many highlights to report in one blog entry but was pleased at the reaction to my talk on Branch Rickey’s February 1948 speech to the annual football banquet at the historically black Wilberforce State University in central Ohio.  Read More 

After many years of trying the Florida Marlins finally broke ground on Saturday for their baseball-only 37,000 seat stadium. Scheduled to open in the 2012 season the yet-unnamed facility will have a retractable roof and will be built in downtown Miami on the site of the historic Orange Bowl. In one concession to the declining market for luxury suites, there will be only 49 instead of 60 fat cat sky boxes. One of them will be designated to be bought on a single game basis and not owned like the others. “You will have sets of strangers sitting in one suite together,” said Marlins president David Samson. Imagine that! You mean like the good old days when you went to a ballgame and sat next to strangers and maybe even conversed with them. And didn’t care if you ever came back. What a novel idea though at suite prices I doubt that many average fans will take advantage.  Read More