A Graphical View of the SABR Era

By Jim Albert

INTRODUCTION Baseball has had a rich history in the forty years since the founding of SABR in 1971. It is interesting that SABR began at about the same time as the introduction of the designated hitter (DH) in the American League in the 1973 season. The intent of this article is to use graphs to show changes in batting, pitching, speed, strategy, attendance, and the length of games over the SABR era. Since the DH is used only for home games in American League ballparks, we focus on how these . . .

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Fall 2011 Baseball Research Journal
Volume 40, Issue 2
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