Forman to Present Sherwood Ebey Lecture
The department of math and computer science is sponsoring the 2022-2023 Sherwood Ebey Lecture, honoring Sewanee Mathematics Professor Emeritus Sherwood Ebey.
Sean Forman will lecture on “The Negro Leagues are Major Leagues,” at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23, in Naylor Auditorium, Gailor Hall.
In December 2020, Major League Baseball announced that it would right a past wrong and include the Negro Leagues when discussing baseball’s major leagues. In June of 2021, Baseball-Reference.com incorporated Negro League stats into its database of major league statistics. In this talk, Sean Forman will describe the background for this decision, the work it required, and the impact it has had.
Sean Forman is the creator of Baseball-Reference.com and FBref.com and is the President of Sports Reference LLC. The 30 employees of Sports Reference operate eight sports information websites focusing on statistics and analysis of the current game and its history.
In 2000, while in graduate school at the University of Iowa, Sean launched Baseball-Reference.com. After completing his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, he taught at Saint Joseph’s University for six years. He left teaching in 2006 to run Sports Reference full-time. In 2011, he received SABR’s Chadwick Award for lifetime achievement in baseball research. Sean lives in Philadelphia with his wife Sylvia and two children.
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