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“ As You Never Knew Him: 100 Years as a Yankee” Panel and Senior Director Tyrone Brooks of MLB Diversity Pipeline Program

New York Chapter, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Day Saturday, January 25, 2020 10 am – 3 pm Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue (btw 37 th & 38 th St), just south of Grand Central Open to the public -$40, students $20. Register in person or at [email protected]

Featured Speakers – Morning Program

Marty Appel – Premier ’ historian; author of Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss, the definitive history of Yankees. Appel was a long-time public relations director of the Yankees and later was the executive producer of Yankee televised games. He has published more than two dozen books about baseball.

Mike Gibbons – Executive Director 1983-2017 of The Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, he is now the Director Emeritus/Historian. Gibbons has appeared on the Today Show, MLB Network, the BBC, ESPN, Comcast, and other media. H e is also the former chairman of the International Sports Heritage Association and will receive its most prestigious Schroeder Award in 2020.

Bill Jenkinson – Acclaimed Babe Ruth historian and often-requested speaker at events honoring the Babe, Jenkinson has been a consultant for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, MLB, The Babe Ruth Museum, ESPN, and SABR. He also wrote The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs and Babe Ruth: Against All Odds, World’s Mightiest Slugger.

Featured Speaker – Afternoon Program

Tyrone Brooks – Founder of Baseball Industry Network (@tbrooksBIN), a group of over 34,000 world-wide members working in baseball-related industry. Brooks is the Senior Director of the Front Office and Field Staff Diversity Pipeline Program for MLB as well as Board of Directors for SABR. Previously worked for the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians, and the Pittsburgh Pirates. SABR Day 2020 Babe Ruth Program

‘The Babe’ As You Never Knew Him – One Hundred Years As A New York Yankee

Already well known in the baseball world by the time he became a Yankee in 1920, it was in New York that Babe Ruth rose to super stardom, transcending baseball and adored by the masses of all ages. Now, one hundred years later, he remains a cultural phenomenon, revered by historians and fans, and relevant to today’s game, as the ultimate benchmark for which extraordinary feats are measured.

The excitement that surrounded Ruth in his lifetime will be felt once again by our NYC SABR Day audience, as they listen to three of the most prominent Ruth authorities tell fascinating stories, rarely known tidbits and yes, even recently uncovered information, that go beyond Ruth’s on- field heroics and records.

Marty Appel, Michael Gibbons and Bill Jenkinson have each been featured on television documentaries, talk shows and media outlets, but this dynamic ‘Brain Trust’ on ‘The Babe’ will be together for the first time on our SABR panel, and illuminate Ruth as never before.

Please join us as we celebrate Babe Ruth becoming a Yankee and transforming baseball. We ‘point’ you towards the Scandinavia House. Well worth giving it ‘a shot.’ Promise!