{"id":166,"date":"2011-02-07T17:34:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T22:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kira-b.com\/sabrwp\/?p=166"},"modified":"2015-01-22T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T22:38:43","slug":"sabr-day-with-the-bob-davids-chapter-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"SABR Day with the Bob Davids Chapter 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Saturday, January 29, a total of 156 SABR members and friends gathered in Arlington, Virginia for an all-day event headlining Nationals Park architect Marshall Purnel<\/a>l and New York Times<\/i> best-selling author Jane Leavy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Marshall Purnell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Purnell, partner of the firm Devrouax + Purnell<\/a>, brought early drawings of the ballpark project and discussed some of the events that changed that design into what was unveiled in 2008.\u00a0He was entertaining in his views of the political process as well as the give-and-take required to complete a $611 million project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Leavy discussed her new book, The\u00a0The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood<\/em>, along with SABR member and physicist Alan Nathan<\/a>.\u00a0They showed the results of their research into the famous Mickey Mantle home run<\/a> hit out of Griffith Stadium in 1953 off Chuck Stobbs.\u00a0Leavy, a member of our chapter, conducted many interviews, including talking the man who found the ball as a youngster in his neighborhood.\u00a0Nathan used a scientific approach to determine how far that ball actually travelled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jane Leavy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No less entertaining were the four local SABR members who made presentations.<\/p>\n