Ashwill: A look at Cuban baseball guides
From SABR member Gary Ashwill at Agate Type on August 12, 2019:
I want to extend my thanks to Jason Mishelow, who recently loaned me three Cuban baseball guides from the 1945/46, 1946/47, and 1948/49 winter seasons.
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This means that we can go well beyond the numbers published in Jorge Figueredo’s Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, to obtain fielding statistics, batters’ walks, pitchers’ home runs allowed, and so on—just as I’ve been able to do from newspaper box scores for Cuban League seasons in the 1900s, 1910s, and 1920s.
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Originally published: August 13, 2019. Last Updated: August 13, 2019.