David Ortiz was gunning for home run number 500 as the 2015 season…
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Each year, SABR’s Nineteenth Century Research Committee selects…
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Add a new baseball book to your collection from the SABR Digital…
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When there’s a band in the house for a Wednesday game, you…
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“Batting and playing first base for the Boston Red Sox: Mary…
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With his pitchers falling by the wayside on a seemingly daily…
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The Kansas City Cowboys joined the American Association in 1888,…
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The pendulum kept swinging the same way after the New York Yankees…
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On the back cover of his album The Nylon Curtain, released in…
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Baseball folklore has it that Abner Doubleday “chased the…
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Seeking their third straight World Series championship and their…
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The crowd – estimated at 20,000 by the Kansas City Sun –…
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September 12, 2015: David Ortiz reaches career milestone with homers 499 and 500 in same game
July 8, 2021: Rookie reliever Daniel Camarena’s grand slam powers Padres’ comeback
Vote now for the 2022 SABR Overlooked 19th Century Base Ball Legend
Fritz Maisel
Jeff McNeely
Dave Skaugstad
SABR Digital Library: The First Negro League Champion: The 1920 Chicago American Giants
This Week in SABR: May 27, 2022
June 30, 1943: World War II relief game is a South Side success in Chicago
August 14, 1922: Lizzie Murphy becomes first woman to play against major leaguers at Fenway Park
May 14, 1901: McAleer makes unusual proposal in effort to shore up deteriorated pitching corps after Milwaukee sweeps Cleveland
June 13, 1888: Sam Barkley hits for the cycle but Kansas City Cowboys lose to Cincinnati Reds
October 9, 1951: Gil McDougald’s grand slam leads Yankees to Game 5 rout of Giants
July 5, 1963: Dodgers notch 1-0 win in Johnny Podres’ 2-hitter
June 30, 1982: Expos top punchless Mets in ‘Nylon Curtain’ game
September 13, 2020: Cubs’ Alec Mills stymies Brewers’ bats in no-hitter
George Barclay
Wayne Housie
Dick Koecher
This Week in SABR: May 20, 2022
June 8, 1885: Presto Change! Cannonball Morris dominates after overhand pitching is suddenly legalized
May 18, 1901: In first Army vs. Navy baseball game, Cadets get best of Midshipmen in Annapolis
May 7, 1917: Babe Ruth gets the best of Walter Johnson in 1-0 shutout at Griffith Stadium
August 1, 1920: Bullet Rogan pitches and bats Kansas City Monarchs over Chicago American Giants in front of record crowd