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Welcome to the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research. SABR was formed in August, 1971, in Cooperstown New York. It now consists of more than 6,700 members--including many prominent writers, officials and players--worldwide. The Dallas Fort Worth Chapter meets on a monthly basis to talk baseball. Past speakers at local meetings have included Jon Daniels, Larry Hardy, Dr. Bobby Brown, Juan Marichal, Rudy Jaramillo, Daryl Kennedy, Doug Melvin, Johnny Oates, Mark Holtz, Tom Grieve, Bobby Bragan, Buck Showalter, and former Rangers players Pete O'Brien, Steve Buechelle, Jim Kern, and many others. We invite all baseball fans to join us for a fun time discussing America's pasttime. Next Meeting: December 8, 2006 - 7:00-9:00 pm Who were Flem Hall and Bill Ruggles?Flem Richard Hall was "Mr. Sports" in Tarrant County for nearly a half-century and retired as the sports director for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the dean of Texas sports writers. Hall was born in Sherman, TX and graduated from Sherman High School in 1919. He began his newspaper career at the Sherman Democrat in 1921, joined the Star-Telegram in May of 1922, and became the Evening Star-Telegram sports editor in 1924. He retired from the Star-Telegram on Jan. 1, 1967, after 45 years with the newspaper. He concluded his final sports column, The Sport Tide, with these words: "That's about it. All out. This is the end of the line for Sports Tide." As a longtime director of the Texas Golden Gloves, he built the amateur tournament into the largest and most successful in the nation. As a result, he was awarded the national George Barton Award, named for a Chicago sports writer, in 1958. Additionally, he served twice as president of the Texas Sports Writers Association. William B. Ruggles was an Austin native born in 1891, and a baseball fan from boyhood. He was sports editor of the Houston Post from 1910-1916, the Galveston News from 1916-1917, and the Dallas News from 1919-1925, before being promoted to editor of the Dallas News in 1943. In 1920, he accepted an appointment as statistician for the Texas League, an assignment he performed diligently for decades. He meticulously accumulated statistics and personal records for the pre-1920 period, contacting numerous old players and officials in the effort. Ruggles also served as Texas League secretary from 1921-25,and filled in as league president from February to October, 1929. During that period, Ruggles conceived of an historical volume about the circuit, and after two years' work, the History of the Texas League was published in 1932. Periodically, Ruggles produced rich statistical booklets about the league, and in 1951 he published an updated History of the Texas League. |
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