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SABR turns 50: A history rooted in so much more than metrics [The San Diego Union-Tribune] Tom Hufford means it when he says he was married to baseball long before he met his wife. That first love blossomed as a boy in Pulaski, Va., where Hufford spent his days collecting trading cards and playing pick-up games in sandlots and his evenings surfing his bedroom radio dial for MLB games from New York to St. Louis to Houston. By the time he was studying architecture at Virginia Tech, his relationship with baseball had evolved to the point that he’d taken it upon himself to begin to unearth the player particulars that even the original Baseball Encyclopedia had lost to time.

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