David J. Gordon

DAVID J. GORDON MD, PhD is a retired biomedical scientist and longtime Cubs fan, who joined SABR in 2016 and has a keen interest in baseball history and in metrics that can be applied across historical eras. Since 2016, he has authored nine BRJ papers and three books—Baseball Generations, a historical account of the best players of each of seven eras spanning 1871–2019; The American Cardiovascular Pandemic: A 100-Year History, a chronicle of how advances in cardiovascular science have reversed the twentieth century tide of heart attack mortality; and Baseball’s Shooting Stars, which tells the stories of 30 players who had a single Hall of Fame quality season that they could never replicate. More recently, he has collaborated with John Contois on a book about MLB’s greatest hitting pitchers, which should be available in bookstores in 2026.

 

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