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This appendix accompanies Bryan Soderholm-Difatte’s article “The 1914 Stallings Platoon” in the Fall 2014 Baseball Research Journal. Methodology for Determining Starting Line-Up Platoons A position “platoon” is defined as two (or sometimes three) players being used in the starting line-up at the same position by their manager on a regular basis depending primarily on whether […]

The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees have one of the fiercest rivalries in American sports. It is a rivalry borne out of regional differences that date back to Colonial America. The rivalry goes beyond sports—New York and Boston were early economic rivals, eventually becoming a cultural rivalry between New York and New England. […]

Prologue The American National Leagues each held individual annual meetings on December 9, 1930, in New York City. Although the National League was bound by its constitution to meet in New York City, its American League counterpart had originally planned to meet in Chicago. However, league President E.S. Barnard later changed this arrangement so the […]

Frank Ego visits the Japanese lantern outside Dodger Stadium. (Courtesy Kimi Ego.)   For decades, the most intriguing and significant Dodger Stadium structure resided not inside the ballpark itself, but just beyond Parking Lot 6 (formerly parking lot 37) on a hill outside Dodger Stadium. On that hill lies a Japanese garden and, within that […]

Four books on the Bronx Bombers.