BALTIMORE — The baseball brainiacs are coming to Baltimore.
From Wednesday to Sunday, the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor will host the 50th convention of the Society for American Baseball Research, an organization founded in 1971 and focused on the research and history of baseball. More than 500 people are expected to attend the five-day event, which has dozens of presentations, panels and discussions all centered on various topics in baseball, much of it with a Baltimore focus.
The opening remarks will be delivered by Orioles assistant general manager Sig Mejdal and the keynote address will be given by Tim Kurkjian, a Maryland native and onetime reporter for The Baltimore Sun who has covered baseball for decades for ESPN.
