SABR members can now vote for their most important of baseball milestones featuring Washington’s major-league franchises and the many Negro League and minor league teams to have played in the region of the Bob Davids Chapter, which takes in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and parts of Pennsylvania. You’ll notice that we’ve got 39 candidates: 38 choices suggested by Bob Davids Chapter members, with the 39th a write-in possibility for you (there are no numbers, but trust us – we counted and recounted, shades of Bush vs. Gore!). Click HERE to vote for your Top Ten. Your votes and those of other SABR members will be tallied – but you must vote by the 11:59 p.m. ET June 29 – which, coincidentally, happens to be the last day you can obtain the SABR discount at the J.W. Marriott in downtown Washington, our official convention hotel. Don’t delay. Do it today!

The survey is now closed - results coming soon!

We’d like to do a similar list for Baltimore-area baseball milestones. If you have any to suggest, send them, along with month/date/year, to Mark Pattison at pattison_mark@hotmail.com.

We've been mentioning some of the great sights to see when you're not taking in the convention -- or things for your family to enjoy while you're eating, sleeping and breathing baseball. Well, the Bob Davids chapter is blessed some very qualified tour guides. They have offered their services to those attending SABR 39. Please contact them directly to arrange personal or group tours. Their rates are very reasonable and they know the area and its history like few other people. Several chapter members (longtime residents of the area) have taken a sample walking tour and learned fascinating things about the nation’s capital only a few steps from the front door of the JW Marriott hotel. Click "Read more" to learn about the guides.

The Research Presentation Schedule has been finalized, and is available by clicking on the "Presentations" tab above. You can also download a PDF version of the schedule.

If any further updates are made, the schedule will be adjusted here, and we will post a news update to let you know.

Baltimore is known as the Monumental City. Our Washington Monument was completed in 1829,  55 years before the more-famous one in Washington, D.C., and you can walk all the way to the top, a mere 228 steps. President John Quincy Adams, bestowed the nickname during an 1827 visit, when he saw the recently completed Battle Monument (dedicated to the defenders who had died in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, it graces the city flag and seal), the rising Washington Monument and a memorial at the battleground of North Point (9 miles from the city).

Memorial Stadium, the Orioles' home before Camden Yards opened in 1992, was dedicated to the memory of those who gave their lives in the two world wars, and the flag that often flew during Orioles games bore the 15 stars and stripes of the banner that flew over Fort McHenry.

There are sports tributes, too, not quite so monumental. The Oriole Advocates, an organization dedicated to promoting baseball at all levels, started the Orioles Hall of Fame in 1977. Plaques of the honorees line a brick wall along the Eutaw Street walkway at Camden Yards. There are also plaques honoring the members of the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame. The nearby museum Sports Legends at Camden Yards has exhibits on both halls of fame. Also in the  Eutaw Street area are a statue of Baltimore-born Babe Ruth and sculpted aluminum numbers, tributes to the Orioles whose numbers have been retired (4-Earl Weaver, 5-Brooks Robinson, 8-Cal Ripken Jr., 20-Frank Robinson, 22-Jim Palmer, 33-Eddie Murray).