Tuck Stainback

Playing on seven different teams across 13 major league seasons,…

Harry Elliott

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Bill Gatewood

If his only claim to fame had been giving a young pitching prospect…

Bob Tufts

Bob Tufts was one of six big-leaguers known to have converted…

George A. Vanderbeck

In the late 19th century, real estate investor, stockbroker,…

This Week in SABR: August 30, 2019

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Ovid Nicholson

Ovid Nicholson’s chief baseball skills were bunting and speedy…

Charlie Schmutz

A temperate Pacific Coast climate and rich baseball tradition…

Willie Sudhoff

Blond-headed Wee Willie Sudhoff, although short in stature, was…

Andy Coakley at Columbia

Columbia University went through six baseball coaches in eight…

Andy Coakley

Andy Coakley is remembered most as “Lou Gehrig’s coach”…

May 20, 1970: Red-hot Rod Carew hits for the cycle, raises average to .432

In 1969 the Minnesota Twins ran away with the first American…

This Week in SABR: August 23, 2019

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June 14, 1959: Carl Erskine hangs ’em up with Dodgers

By 1959, after the Dodgers had been spirited off to Los Angeles,…

May 23, 2002: Shawn Green hits four home runs, sets record with 19 total bases

On May 23, 2002, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shawn Green had a…

Mike Busch

During the Major League Baseball Players Association strike of…
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