For several years after my retirement, I was active in the SABR Games Project. Authors would research and write accounts of professional baseball games. As Coordinator of Fact Checking, I either reviewed the game myself or sent it to another team member. After the game was fact-checked, I would send the manuscript to Len Levin to copyedit before publication. I must have exchanged hundreds of emails with him over the years. I did meet him at two SABR National Meetings. It was always a pleasure to work with him.
Obituary by Jacob Pomrenke, SABR's Director of Editorial Content
Comments about Len by John Fredland, Coordinator of the Games Project:
Sad news for the Games Project and SABR in general: Len Levin, who served as copy-editor on a remarkable variety of SABR publications, including nearly every Games Project article during my five-and-a-half years as committee chair, died today at age 95. Len's reviews of our articles facilitated our weekly output until he broke his hip last December, and he struggled with his health after that.
I will miss how Len's revised articles arrived in my inbox overnight, with countless improvements in phrasing and citations brought into compliance with the SABR Style Guide. He once told me he worked on the articles after his wife Linda went to bed at night. He was born about a month after Ernie Banks and three months before Willie Mays, when the Philadelphia Athletics were defending World Series champions. He was a great teammate, and it is heartbreaking that he is gone.
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