Szymborski is a member of Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and is best known for contributions to BaseballPrimer.com, now known as Baseball Think Factory, after the site was featured by TIME in 2002 and 2003's Moneyball by Michael Lewis.
A native of Richmond, Indiana, Rhodes worked for the Cincinnati Historical Society from 1987 to 1992, helped plan the creation of the new history museum at the Museum Center, served as president of the board of Historic Southwest Ohio, and chaired the local chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
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A member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Rhodes has twice won one of the organization's top awards: The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award, which recognizes outstanding baseball research in areas other than history and biography.
In 2007, the Biographical Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) issued a report indicating that the game was played in Gloucester, New Jersey, and Philadelphia manager Bill Sharsig used four local players (Sterling, Sweigert, Stafford, and McBride) in the game.