Part of my off-season to-do list has been organizing a local, Chattanooga chapter for the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR). It will be called the Choo Choo Chapter and our first meeting will be on or around March 14.

Each of you is welcome to become a charter member of our chapter. We will have a big annual meeting with guests and a great menu as well as an annual publication. There is a lot of history in danger of being lost or simply forgotten, and I am making it my mission to get this stuff realized. Annual membership to SABR right now is $60, which gets you publiciations and access to some very cool records and files. It costs NOTHING to belong to a chapter.

If any of you is interested in signing up to SABR, here's a link. BTW, there is a very cool story about the war between Joe Engel and Earl Mann that needs some love and attention. That's just one thing.

LINK: http://sabr.org/