Thursday, August 2, 2001
Boyer to speak at SABR meeting
Clete Boyer, star third baseman with five New York Yankee World Series teams, will be the featured speaker at a regional meeting of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) on Sunday evening, Aug. 5, of Baseball Hall of Fame induction weekend in Cooperstown. He will reminisce about his 18 seasons in the major leagues and the many famous players with whom he was associated. Boyer, who played with the Yankees from 1959 through 1966, is owner of the Hamburger Hall of Fame restaurant on Route 28 two miles south of Cooperstown.
Another former major league star will be represented at the meeting via film footage. He is the late George Case, who was the American League's base stealing champion six times from 1939 to 1946 and later managed the Oneonta Yankees to NYP League pennants in 1969 and 1971. His son, George Case III, who is executive director of SABR, will show a video made from movies that his father took during his playing career with the Washington Senators and Cleveland Indians.
Other highlights of the gathering will include short research presentations by SABR members on Turkey Mike Donlin, an eccentric outfielder who hit .333 during a 12-year major league career in the early 1900s; the seldom-seen hidden-ball trick; the 30th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Pirates' all-black lineup, and the fifth game of the 1920 World Series which was highlighted by Bill Wambsganss' unassisted triple play and the first grand-slam home run in Series history.
The SABR meeting will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Tillapaugh Funeral Home, 28 Pioneer St., in Cooperstown. Marjorie Tillapaugh has made the facility available for the group's sessions for several years in memory of her late husband George, an avid baseball fan. The affair is open to the general public. Admission is free. Upwards of 40 persons are expected.
The meeting is being sponsored by the central New York (Cooperstown) chapter of SABR, which is a nationwide organization of approximately 7,000 baseball enthusiasts.
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