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Tigers by the Tale: Great Games at Michigan & Trumbull Edited by Scott Ferkovich Associate Editors: Bill Nowlin and Len Levin Publication Date: May 26, 2016 ISBN (ebook): 978-1-9438-1620-0, $6.99 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-9438-1621-7, $12.95 8.5″ x 11″, 156 pages For over 100 years, Michigan and Trumbull was the scene of some of the most exciting […]

Detroit the Unconquerable: The 1935 World Champion Tigers Edited by Scott Ferkovich Associate Editors: Bill Nowlin and Len Levin Contributing Editors: Ron Antonucci, Barry Deutsch, Mark Pattison, David Raglin, Jim Wohlenhaus Publication Date: December 15, 2014 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-933599-78-6, $19.95 ISBN (e-book) 978-1-933599-79-3, $9.99 8.5″ x 11″, 226 pages It had taken three and a […]

Wrigley Field: The Friendly Confines at Clark and Addison Edited by Gregory H. Wolf Associate Editors: Len Levin, Bill Nowlin, and Carl Riechers  Publication Date: April 29, 2019 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-9701-5901-1, $21.95 ISBN (e-book): 978-1-9701-5901-1, $9.99 8.5″ x 11″, 350 pages Wrigley Field evokes a feeling of perpetual summer, youth, and dreams. Any mention of the ballpark […]

From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium: Great Games in Philadelphia’s Lost Ballpark Edited by Gregory H. Wolf Associate Editors: Len Levin, Bill Nowlin, and Carl Riechers Publication Date: October 19, 2022 ISBN (ebook): 978-1-970159-85-1, $9.99 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-970159-86-8 paperback, $39.95 8.5″ x 11″, 398 pages From Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium: Great Games […]

Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis: Home of the Browns and Cardinals at Grand and Dodier Edited by Gregory H. Wolf Associate Editors: James Forr, Len Levin, Bill Nowlin Publication Date: November 16, 2017 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-943816-61-3, $39.95 ISBN (e-book): 978-1-943816-60-6, $9.99 8.5″ x 11″, 391 pages The intersection of Grand Avenue and Dodier Street on […]

Baseball’s Greatest Comeback Games Edited by Bill Nowlin Associate editors: Len Levin and Carl Riechers Publication Date: March 31, 2021 ISBN (ebook): 978-1-9701-5946-2, $9.99 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-9701-5947-9, $29.95 8.5″ x 11″, 251 pages What are Major League Baseball’s greatest comeback games? This SABR Digital Library book set out to collect the stories of those games, […]

The Base Ball Palace of the World: Comiskey Park Edited by Gregory H. Wolf Associate editors: Bill Nowlin, Kevin Larkin, and Len Levin   Publication Date: October 17, 2019   ISBN (e-book): 978-1-9701-5915-8, $9.99  ISBN (paperback): 978-1-9701-5914-1, $29.95 8.5″ x 11″, 320 pages Comiskey Park, affectionately known as the “Base Ball Palace of the World,” […]

Go-Go to Glory: The 1959 Chicago White Sox Edited by Don Zminda Associate editors: R.J. Lesch, Len Levin, Bill Nowlin    Publication Date: Octoberr 11, 2019  ISBN (e-book): 978-1-9701-5910-3, $9.99  ISBN (paperback): 978-1-9701-5911-0, $29.95 8.5″ x 11″, 320 pages The 1959 Chicago White Sox broke a 40-year pennant drought on the city’s South Side, begun after the 1919 […]

Winning on the North Side: The 1929 Chicago Cubs Edited by Gregory H. Wolf Publication Date: February 5, 2015  ISBN (e-book): 978-1-933599-88-5, $9.99 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-933599-89-2, $19.95 8.5″ x 11″, 314 pages “The best team I ever played on was McCarthy’s twenty-niners. It was strictly power all the way. No tricky baseball.” — Cubs first […]

Braves Field: Memorable Moments at Boston’s Lost Diamond Edited by Bill Nowlin and Bob Brady Associate Editors: Greg Erion and Len Levin Publication Date: August 18, 2015 ISBN (e-book): 978-1-933599-92-2, $9.99 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-933599-93-9, $19.95 8.5″ x 11″, 277 pages From its opening on August 18, 1915 to the sudden departure of the Boston Braves […]

From the Braves to the Brewers: Great Games and Exciting History at Milwaukee’s County Stadium Edited by Gregory H. Wolf Associate editors: James Forr, Len Levin, Bill Nowlin Publication Date: June 27, 2016 ISBN (ebook): 978-1-9438-1622-4, $9.99 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-9438-1623-1, $19.95 8.5″ x 11″, 297 pages This SABR Digital Library book rekindles memories of Milwaukee’s […]

Mustaches and Mayhem: Charlie O’s Three-Time Champions The Oakland Athletics: 1972-74 Edited by Chip Greene Associate Editors: Greg Erion, Len Levin, and Bill Nowlin Publication Date: September 16, 2015 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-943816-07-1, $49.95 ISBN (ebook): 978-1-943816-06-4, $9.99 8.5″ x 11″, 540 pages In modern baseball history, only one team not named the New York Yankees […]

Yankee Stadium 1923-2008: America’s First Modern Ballpark Edited by Tara Krieger and Bill Nowlin Associate editors: Len Levin and Carl Riechers Publication Date: March 31, 2023 ISBN (ebook): 978-1-960819-00-0, $9.99 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-960819-01-7, $34.95 8.5″ x 11″, 370 pages Yankee Stadium 1923-2008: America’s First Modern Ballpark represents a 100th anniversary celebration of the original Yankee […]

The Team That Time Won’t Forget: The 1951 New York Giants Edited by Bill Nowlin and C. Paul Rogers III  Associate editors: Clem Comly and Len Levin  Contributing editors: James Forr and Carl Riechers Publication Date: December 8, 2015 Foreword by Monte Irvin ISBN (e-book): 978-1-9335-9998-4, $9.99 ISBN (paperback): 978-1-9335-9999-1, $39.95 Because of Bobby Thomson’s […]

On December 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and the United States declared war. It was only 39 days after the September 28 doubleheader in Philadelphia when Ted Williams went 6-for-8 and elevated his batting average from .3996 to .406, the last time a major-league batter has hit .400. Baseball contined, and […]

    Selecting an all-time baseball team is an extremely precarious pastime, fraught with difficulties and likely to induce mental anguish.  Therefore, we shall forego the best in favor of the jest.     We could be Poles apart in naming our all-time Ski team, but our squad prefers fastballs to snowballs and running bases to […]

Willie Davis gave it a good try in 1969, and Rico Carty in 1970, both connecting in 31 straight games, but Tommy Holmes still holds the modern National League record he set in 1945 for hitting in 37 consecutive games. (Editor’s note: Pete Rose later broke Holmes’ record with a 44-game streak in 1978.) Thomas […]

Babe Ruth is seated in a bistro. A waiter takes his order. William  Bendix, wearing a putty-flattened Ruth nose, orders milk. Babe Ruth??? Milk??? That scene was enough to curdle “The Babe Ruth Story,” a  cheaply made production of the great slugger’s life. And Ty Cobb doesn’t fare any better. In 1916, Cobb was coaxed […]

In 1947, the Pittsburgh Pirates installed an inner fence in a portion of Forbes Field, reducing the distance down the left field line of the ballpark by 30 feet. The purpose of the fence was to assist the team’s newest acquisition, Hank Greenberg, in his ability to hit home runs. The area between the new […]

The 1976 renovation of Yankee Stadium removed the columns that obstructed views on the lower decks and the seats in center field that obstructed batters, but it also relegated the recognizable frieze to above the outfield wall. (SABR-Rucker Archive)   In the spring of 1976, the Yankees celebrated a grand reopening of Yankee Stadium.1 It […]

As World War II progressed and the war effort lay greater and greater claim to American resources, every industry tightened up as best it could. One adaptation that baseball made was to schedule spring training nearer the cities that the teams would ultimately have as a home base. The Boston Red Sox, then, instead of […]

The Growth of the Society By the fall of 1974 the membership of the Society had risen from the original 16 members to 230. It climbed slowly but steadily through the ’70s, reaching 300 in October 1975, 350 at Society’s fifth birthday in August 1976, 410 in December 1976, and 634 in July 1978, before […]