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SABR 40 research presentations

Here are unedited slides from the SABR 40 research presentations (Atlanta, 2010):

RP1
Better than the real thing? Nat Allbright and recreated Dodger broadcasts in the 1950s Bob Barrier
2.9M
 
RP2
A Heisman Trophy in collegiate baseball? John Heisman as the Georgia Tech baseball coach Karl Green
31M
 
RP3
One boy and baseball: The 1887 diary of S. Parker Smith, age 14 Gary Land
177K
 
RP4
Scranton Times coverage of the 1906 New York State League champions led by Moonlight Graham Jim Frutchey
2.2M  
RP5
Creating dailies for the 19th century: A manuscript approach Bill McMahon
8.5M  
RP7
Officially sanctioned postseason challenge series Mike Cantor, Mark Pankin
211K  
RP8
The making of a millionaire: Ty ‘Brains’ Cobb and the entrepreneurial spirit Ralph Christian
2.7M  
RP9
Using Marcel the Monkey for year-to-year discontinuities in Major League Baseball performance Andy Andres
5.5M  
RP10
Country hardball: Barnstorming with the Dean boys Steve Schmitt
2.8M  
RP11
Resting the pitcher: How useful are pitch counts and days of rest? J.C. Bradbury, Sean Forman
229K  
RP12
A comprehensive evaluation of Major League Baseball’s nine Commissioners Donald Frank
578K  
RP13
Searching for the elusive Sunday pitcher Chris Jaffe
138K  
RP14
Where have you gone, Tony Lazzeri? Reflections on a forgotten Hall-of-Famer Lawrence Baldassaro
98K  
RP15
Pitchers as fielders: A quantitative analysis, or why Kirk Rueter is the best-fielding pitcher of all time John Knox
568K  
RP16
The 1960 World Series: The other second baseman John Burbridge
1.2M  
RP17
Beyond Bunning and short rest: A bill of particulars on managerial decisions that caused the Phillies’ epic collapse of 1964 Bryan Solderholm-Difatte
142K  
RP18
Spud Chandler: A Georgia Bulldog makes good! Steve Krevisky
9.7M  
RP19
Peanuts baseball: A comprehensive look at the wins, losses, and other statistics of Charlie Brown & the Gang Larry Granillo
795K  
RP20
21 in ’21: 21 facts you might not know about 1921 Steve Steinberg, Lyle Spatz
6.0M  
RP21
Revisiting Mantle’s Griffith Stadium home run Alan Nathan
1.7M  
RP22
Worst to first: The 1991 Braves visual timeline Ken Cherven
8.0M  
RP23
Do players make batting slumps worse by trying to escape them? Patrick Kilgo, et al
380K  
RP24
Were the Boston Braves of the teens and twenties really owned and controlled by the New York Giants and Tammany Hall? Gerald Beirne
7.8M  
RP25
Hitting with RISP: Real differences between players Eric Van
358K  
RP27
Are outs made on the bases more harmful than other types of outs? David W. Smith
146K  
RP28
Fading to black: The perilous state of surviving Negro League ballparks Gary Gillette
4.5M  
RP29
Measuring the asset value of players: A framework for evaluating trades Vince Gennaro
1.3M  
RP31
The National League’s first expansion: Did the Mets and Colt. 45s have a fair chance? Eric Thompson
826K  
RP32
Chinese-U.S. baseball diplomacy before the Great War Ross Davies
4.9M  
RP33
Promise, reality, and baseball in the 1960s Steve Treder
4.0M  
RP34
A tool for diplomacy: Baseball in occupied Japan 1945-1952 Will Dahlberg
4.7M  
RP35
Sudden death: The untimely demise of 5 ballplayers in the 1970s and the effect on their team’s fortunes Jim Provenzale
4.6M  
RP36
Babe Ruth, Eiji Sawamura and war Robert Fitts
6.6M  
RP37
Does extreme home field advantage exist? Mark Kanter
575K  
RP38
Shoeless Joe Jackson’s first professional team: The 1908 Greenville Spinners David Fleitz
2.5M  
RP40
Earning like a woman: The gender gap in professional baseball 1944-1954 Michael Haupert
1.4M  
RP41
The Barnum of the Bushes: The life and times of Chattanooga’s Joe Engel Mark Stang
50M

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