Paying Tribute to Burt Richter (1931-2018)

SLAC's Annual Theory vs Experiment Softball Game began in the 1950s as a Faculty versus Students game on the Stanford campus. Sid Drell and Burt Richter brought this tradition to SLAC when it was formed and respectively led Theory and Experiment teams to compete for bragging rights in the Research Division.  

With superior numbers, Experiment prevailed far more often than Theory.  In 2007, the competing Experiment and Theory teams merged to form the Research team and compete against a new Accelerator team  -- leading to lab-wide participation in SLAC's Annual Softball Game. 

The Drell-Richter Trophy was inaugurated in 1999 to recognize the significance of completing four decades of this annual tradition and pay tribute to Sid and Burt, who initiated and fostered the rivalry of competing Theory and Experiment teams.   The trophy represents Theory confronting Experiment at Accelerator Park. The home run fence is represented by a beam tree, a traditional symbol of the lab.

Photos featuring Burt at some of the annual games follow.

1997

	Inaugurating the Drell-Richter Trophy at the 1999 game, won by Experiment

	2000

2004

November 2018
Mike Woods