{"id":33,"date":"2014-12-04T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kira-b.com\/sabrwp\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2015-02-22T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T21:24:09","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/?page_id=33","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 4, 1974, twelve members and two guests from the Washington, DC, area met at the home of Ron Gabriel in Chevy Chase, Maryland. This was the first time that a regional group within SABR met formally. The Washington-Baltimore chapter has continued to meet at least once a year since that first event. It was renamed the &#8220;Bob Davids Chapter&#8221; in 1992 by a vote of the chapter members over the strong objection of its namesake.<\/p>\n<p>SABR&#8217;s Bob Davids chapter covers the Washington, D.C.\/Baltimore area. Any SABR member residing in the area \u00a0or expressing an interest in the area&#8217;s baseball teams is welcome to join.<\/p>\n<p>The Bob Davids Chapter has hosted SABR&#8217;s national convention four times and \u00a0holds several\u00a0regular meetings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An annual chapter meeting featuring research presentations, a trivia contest, and baseball swap meet, typically in January.<\/li>\n<li>Hot Stove Meetings are informal baseball discussions. There are two regular venues:\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The Hard Times Cafe, 3028 Wilson Blvd in Arlington, VA at 6 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month, and<\/li>\n<li>The Tastee Diner, 8601 Cameron St. in Silver Spring, MD\u00a0at 6:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Talkin&#8217; Baseball&#8221;, traditionally a talk with a local baseball author, 9 a.m. on the second Saturday of every month, at Brighton Gardens of Columbia, 7110 Minstrel Way in Columbia, MD.<\/li>\n<li>The Chapter also typically hosts two outings each year &#8212; one to a game at a nearby major league stadium and one to a minor league game. These outings often include presentations related to the team being visited.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To become a SABR member, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/sabr.org\/join\">SABR.org\/join<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other chapter-related information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Who Was Bob Davids\" href=\"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/?p=58\">Who was Bob Davids?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Local Pro Teams\" href=\"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/?page_id=108\">Professional baseball teams within a short drive of the National Mall.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Books by Bob Davids chapter members\" href=\"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/?page_id=94\">Books written by members of the Bob Davids Chapter.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Prior Meetings of the Bob Davids Chapter\" href=\"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/?page_id=114\">Prior Meetings of the Bob Davids Chapter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 4, 1974, twelve members and two guests from the Washington, DC, area met at the home of Ron Gabriel in Chevy Chase, Maryland. This was the first time that a regional group within SABR met formally. The Washington-Baltimore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}