My excitement as a baseball nerd has reached a high point today!

Today after about a week of emails and phone calls I was granted a membership into SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research. Now granted any one can join if the fork over 45 dollars for a year but to be able to join the ranks of such intelligent minds is amazing. This is big for me because I love baseball and this is the epitome when it comes to baseball research and a network of great baseball minds. I was also invited into a a few groups withing the Society that focus on the Dead Ball Era (1900-1910) called this because the ball was so heavy. As well as a group that focuses its research on minor league ball in the south. I am really looking forward to learning all I can from everyone in the society as they hold keys to a lot of amazing information. My goal is to hopefully speak at the annual convention that is held every summer at a different Major league city. Who knows maybe one day this project will get published within the society. One thing I did notice and upset me was the lack of information regarding textile mill ball. This really goes to show that if we do not quickly start reading,writing and talking about this then we are on a road of destruction of what I believe is the most important time in South Carolina History.