Wilbur Wood (SABR-Rucker Archive)

Wilbur Wood

Arguably the best left-handed knuckleball pitcher in major-league…

Dan Bickham

As of the 2012 season, 26 former Princeton University Tigers…

Ed Hearne

Edmund Hearne enjoyed two cups of coffee in 1910, one on June…

Jack Lewis

Like many athletes of an earlier era, Jack Lewis played a fair…

Connie Mack

He was known as “The Tall Tactician” and was baseball’s…

This Week in SABR: January 25, 2013

Welcome to "This Week in SABR"! Here's what we've been up to…

Tracy Baker

June 19, 1911, was Trace Baker’s debut in professional baseball,…

Turk Farrell

A late-inning home run by Willie Mays was the decisive blow in…

Ruth Kramer Hartman

Ruth Kramer Hartman played for the Fort Wayne Daisies of the…

Brooks Lawrence

Two months after Ulysses Brooks Lawrence’s major-league debut…

Don Savage

Versatile in the field and with some extra-base pop in his bat,…

Socks Seibold

Harry “Socks” Seibold had a rather modest pitching career,…

Billy Williams

“Billy Williams,” said his manager Leo Durocher, “never…

SABR Digital Library: “Batting” by F.C. Lane

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Mitch Harris (TRADING CARD DB)

Mitch Harris

Many major leaguers follow a twisting path to the major leagues,…

Deacon McGuire

James Thomas McGuire, who would be known as “Deacon Jim”…

This Week in SABR: January 18, 2013

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Lefty Gomez

Lefty Gomez made a lasting mark on baseball for two reasons.…

Tom Haller

In the spring of 1945, a crane operator for U. S. Steel went…

Joe Horlen

A name can sometimes be confusing. Four years into his major-league…
Frank Howard (Trading Card DB)

Frank Howard

He was not the first man to be recognized as a threat to break…

Willie McCovey

In Jim Bouton’s revelatory 1970 book Ball Four, he describes…

Walter Moser

Walter Moser pitched for three teams in 1906 and 1911 – the…

Tubby Spencer

In the course of the nine seasons and 449 major-league games…
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