Enrichment courses offered for Farmington Public School employees ONLY!
This course will address aspects of baseball ranging from its origins in the 19th century, to Sunday Baseball and the early 20th century.
Alan Cohen is a baseball historian. Since 2011, he has been a member of the Society for American Baseball Research. He has written 60 biographies, 70 game stories, and 40 essays that have appeared on the SABR website as well as in more than 80 baseball-related publications. He has given presentations at SABR conventions since 2012 as well as other baseball conferences, ranging from the 19th century conference to the Negro League Conference to the Nine Conference. He currently serves as the chairperson of the SABR Bio-Project factchecking team and works with Retrosheet's Negro League project, a project involving doing spreadsheets on each and every game played in the Negro Leagues from 1920 through 1949. His book on the Hearst Sandlot Classic - 1946-1965 (a youth all-star game that sent 87 players to the majors is scheduled for publication in late 2026.
He has been the stringer (milb datacaster) for the Hartford Yard Goats since 2013 and has served as an officer in the Connecticut SABR chapter since 2015. His page on the SABR website is https://sabr.org/authors/alan-cohen/
Alan Cohen
