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Seymour Siwoff (November 9, 1920 – November 29, 2019) was an American statistician and businessman who was the president and chief executive of the Elias Sports Bureau from 1952 to 2019. [1] He was named a finalist for the 2020 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a contributor, however he was not elected. [2]
In 1913 Al Munro Elias and his brother Walter founded the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau, Inc. in New York City. The Bureau's methods of collection and presentation of statistics set the form and precedent for recording baseball information, and has influenced the universal collection and presentation of other sports’ leagues information ever since.
A late-inning pressure situation is a baseball statistic developed by the Elias Sports Bureau in their annual book The 1985 Elias Baseball Analyst to determine if "clutch hitters" exist. [1] This question was first posed by Richard D. Cramer in his article "Do Clutch Hitters Exist?" published in the 1977 edition of The Baseball Research Journal ...
He began his career in sports working as a statistician for the Elias Sports Bureau, the world’s foremost sports historians and statisticians. Gentile continued at the Elias Bureau for 17 years, finishing up his tenure there as a Senior Vice President before moving on to CBS Sports. [10]
Several years later, Elias Sports Bureau became the full-time baseball statistician for the National League; the American League followed suit later. The AP obituary says NL and IL statistician for more than 20 years, as of 1939, which fits the IJSHOF biographical blurb on Al Elias. "Full-time" cannot be right.
This chart uses the hit totals that Major League Baseball officially recognizes, as maintained and provided by the Elias Sports Bureau; they are derived from the annual official league statistics, even when those
(Illustration by Henry Russell/Yahoo Sports) Before the start of the 2023-24 NBA season , I’m spending the week training the microscope on a handful of the most interesting teams in the NBA (to ...
Kazanski became the first player since 1920 – the first season runs batted in was recorded as an official statistic – to drive in at least four runs as a shortstop in his major league debut, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. He finished the season with a .217 batting average in 95 games.