Bob Davids

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Leonard Robert Davids

• Born: March 19, 1926 in Kanawha, IA USA
• Died: February 10, 2002 in Washington, DC USA

Bob Davids was an American author and researcher who was one of the founders of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Beginning in 1951, Davids began contributing articles to The Sporting News. He continued through the mid-1960s, when TSN shifted their focus.

Davids then published his own baseball newsletter called Baseball Briefs. His work spawned the idea for an organization devoted to baseball research. In 1971, in Cooperstown, Davids and fifteen other baseball researchers formed SABR.

Davids was not a full time researcher. He was a federal employee from 1951 until his retirement in 1981. He was also a scholar in the history of the United States Congress.

A World War II-era Air Force veteran, Bob Davids died in 2002. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.