This Week in SABR: September 2, 2016

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Ray Scarborough

Right-hander Ray Scarborough pitched for the Senators, White…

Carl Weilman

Tris Speaker of the world champion 1915 Boston Red Sox declared…

August 17, 1976: George Brett steals a win for Royals

The Kansas City Royals had developed from an expansion franchise…

June 5, 1989: Blue Jays play first game in SkyDome

When Ontario Premier David Peterson aimed a laser pointer upward…
Chuck Klein (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

May 22, 1930: Phillies finally beat Giants on Chuck Klein’s home run

The Philadelphia Phillies had lost all six games they had played…

July 8, 1912: Jimmy Lavender and Cubs halt Rube Marquard’s winning streak

Rube Marquard, a 25-year-old southpaw on the New York Giants,…

June 6, 1892: President Benjamin Harrison attends a major-league game

“I used to go to a game in Indianapolis once in a while, and…

This Week in SABR: August 26, 2016

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Chuck Essegian

The career of a professional baseball player is wrought with…

Horace Fogel

A manager remembered for trying to convert Christy Mathewson…

Billy Grabarkewitz

A master of the one-liner, Billy Grabarkewitz once claimed that…

Chet Laabs

It marked the pinnacle moment in Luke Sewell’s managerial career.…

August 25, 1922: Cubs and Phillies combine for 49 runs on 51 hits

From 1901 through the end of the 2015 major-league season, one…

September 16, 1915: Ty Cobb faces beanballs and a riotous mob in Boston

Through games of September 15, 1915, Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers…

May 7, 1921: Detroit Stars and Bacharach Giants hit the long ball

It was Saturday, May 7, 1921, the opening day of the Negro National…

May 12, 1909: Reds lefty Ed Karger is wild and unhittable

Cincinnati Reds manager Clark Griffith wanted to start pitcher…

This Week in SABR: August 19, 2016

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May 19, 1937: Carl Hubbell bests Dizzy Dean in ‘Battle of the Century’

The game of Wednesday, May 19, 1937, between the New York Giants…

Buddy Blattner

Boxing and college football were regular fixtures on network…
Lewis Brown (Boston Daily Globe, January 19, 1889:1.)

Lew Brown

“The wildest pitching you ever saw would not make him weaken.…

Red Fahr

Gerald (Red) Fahr had an average major league fastball and curveball.…
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