Burdick Award finalists

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by GaryPassamonte

Rich- I, too, have been a SABR member for a long time, over 25 years. I just don't understand what the logic is for only considering living persons? Is the answer obvious?

Gary:

I have never been in any sort of SABR management but I think the answer is obvious. In the earlier days of SABR a high percentage of members attended the conventions and you wanted to honor those actually doing the work.

Now the percent of attendees may be 10 percent of total membership and as such, it's a little different BUT as has been stated about the HOF honoring the long gone retired players -- how do you honor a person who is no longer living. So, you honor those who are still amongst us. But, as we have aged and as the percent of members attending has decreased, I don't have a real issue with giving awards to people who have passed.

[999Tony]

i Strongly recommend rob Fitts’ mashi and banzai babe Ruth books. Really interesting. I’m Not a shill— I liked the book about Wally yonamine but not as much as the others. I am looking forward to reading his other books (he has another coming out soon or maybe already out)

No idea re whether or not this makes him a worthy recipient of the award