| Doug Pappas, SABR Researcher, Passes Away (Updated, June 2)
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| For Immediate Release May 21, 2004 |
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| Doug Pappas at KC convention in 1996. |
Doug Pappas, 42, the chairman of SABR’s Business of Baseball Committee since its inception in 1994, passed away while vacationing at Big Bend National Park in Texas.
A nationally recognized authority on the business of baseball, with over fifty published articles on the subject, Doug joined SABR in 1983 and served as the Society’s pro bono legal counsel and as parliamentarian at many Annual Business Meetings. He also chaired the committee whose work produced the current SABR by-laws.
Among his many research interests was ejections, and he compiled and updated a database of ejections. His research presentation on the subject, "111 Years of Baseball Ejections" won the USA Today Baseball Weekly Award for best research presentation at the 2000 SABR convention in West Palm Beach, Florida.
He edited “Outside the Lines” the SABR’s Business of Baseball Committee newsletter, and also wrote for Baseball Prospectus. His article, "White Sox Suspended from the American League," will be published in the forthcoming issue of The National Pastime #24.
He maintained his own web site and web log, where many of his baseball writings can be read. At his web site he also wrote of his many road trips and posted photos from the many places he traveled.
Doug was an attorney at Mintz & Gold, where his practice concentrated on general civil and commercial litigation. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Doug graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1985, where he was Executive Note Editor of the Law Review.
He started writing about sports at Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, where he wrote under editor Keith Olbermann, who recalls Doug as "a good kid and a better man, always generous, inquisitive, and creative."
Along with baseball, Pappas had a passion for traveling the nation's roads. He was New York director of the Lincoln Highway Association, and delighted equally in the glories of nature and the tackiness of souvenir stands and roadside stops.
He is survived by his mother, Carolyn Reed Pappas, of Eastchester, New York; his step-mother, Karen Pappas, of Mason, Ohio; uncles Ward L. Reed Jr. of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and Douglas E. Pappas, of Butte, Montana; and cousins Elizabeth Reed Simonds, of Henderson, Nevada; Ward L. Reed III of Pensacola, Florida.; Michael Reed, of Monticello, Vermont; and Jacqueline Testa and Jino Testa of Merion Station, Pennsylvania.
Visitation will be Sunday, June 6, at the Bennett Funeral Home (824 Scarsdale Ave, Scarsdale NY; not far from the Metro North Scarsdale railroad station) from 2pm to 4pm and 7pm to 9pm. The funeral Mass will be Monday, June 7 at 10:30am at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Scarsdale. Burial will be after the Mass at Holy Mount Cemetery in Eastchester.
Dan Neman contributed to this obituary.
SABR (pronounced “Saber”) is an international organization headquartered in Cleveland, OH. The Society's mission is to foster the study of baseball, to assist in developing and maintaining the history of the game, to facilitate the dissemination of baseball research and to stimulate interest in baseball.
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