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A response to "Hitting Streaks Don't Obey Your Rules," from the 2008 Baseball Research Journal.

Do hitting streaks occur more frequently than they would if hitting was random from game to game?

Is there widespread racial bias among umpires? In August 2007, a widely publicized academic study said the answer is yes. The truth might be more complicated.

Bob Motley umpired in the Negro American League from 1947-58 and, as of 2010, is the only surviving umpire from the Negro Leagues.

Ten years ago, Major League Baseball and a law firm based in Philadelphia consummated the transfer of a unique and valuable baseball property.

New statistical categories are now in vogue, but the rock upon which it was all built was the Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia.

A hotly disputed nineteenth-century pennant race was contested in the newspapers, the league offices and — finally — on the diamond.

For the first eleven days of July 1954, the Atlanta Crackers, the Birmingham Barons, and the New Orleans Pelicans fiercely battled each other on the playing field for the honor of hosting the Southern Association All-Star game. Their intense struggle culminated in a spectacular, tense game that ended in grand storybook fashion.

It was an overwhelming set of unfavorable circumstances that came together to seal the fate of the Philadelphia Athletics.

In order to sign 17-year-old phenom Curt Simmons, the hottest amateur prospect in the country in 1947, the Philadelphia Phillies went out of their way to spend an off-day in a small town in the Lehigh Valley.

A sport that can be played on a pastoral commons requires, in the world of commerce, space to which some can be admitted and from which others can be excluded—in short, what lawyers call real property.

The confirmation of a batting-practice pitcher's uniform number coincides with a chance meeting with his relative on an airplane.

MLB officials are confident baseball’s popularity will spread throughout China, and they have 1.3 billion reasons to believe China will be a significant part of baseball’s future.

Starting Jim Bunning and Chris Short on short rest wasn't the only critical decision manager Gene Mauch during the 1964 Philadelphia Phillies' monumental collapse.

Analyzing whether players who participate in the Home Run Derby see their performance suffer in the second half.

How much control, if any, does a pitcher have over whether a batted ball in play falls in for a hit? What if something that had traditionally been regarded as the pitcher’s responsibility was simply the residue of luck?

Analyzing the truth about taller pitchers being more durable and intrinsically better than shorter pitchers.

On "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams"

Four books on the Bronx Bombers.

On "Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball’s Super Showman".