Joseph Wancho
Joseph Wancho lives in Brooklyn, Ohio, and is a lifelong Cleveland Indians fan. He has been a SABR member since 2005 and serves as the vice chair of SABR’s Baseball Index Project Committee. He was the editor of Pitching to the Pennant: The 1954 Cleveland Indians (University of Nebraska Press, 2014) and The Sleeping Giant Awakes: The 1995 Cleveland Indians (SABR, 2019). He also authored So You Think You’re a Cleveland Indians Fan? (Sports Publishing, 2018).
SABR BioProject biographies written by Joseph Wancho
SABR Games Project stories written by Joseph Wancho
- April 9, 1987: Two 300-game winners lead Cleveland to first win of season
- September 29, 1986: Cleveland’s Jay Bell homers in his first major-league at-bat
- September 12, 1985: Keith Hernandez’s walk-off single helps Mets edge Cardinals
- September 27, 1984: A Quirk of fate leads to Indians’ late win
- September 7, 1984: Dwight Gooden one-hits the Cubs
- August 12, 1984: Rookie Joe Carter homers twice as Tribe tops Guidry, Yankees
- September 23, 1983: Steve Carlton wins his 300th game
- October 20, 1982: Cardinals capture 9th World Series championship with Game 7 win over Brewers
- August 4, 1982: Joel Youngblood’s busy day: two hits for two teams in two cities
- May 15, 1981: Cleveland’s Len Barker makes history with perfect game against Blue Jays
- April 10, 1981: Carlton Fisk homers in return to Fenway Park
- August 13, 1979: Lou Brock collects his 3,000th hit
- August 3, 1979: Somebody’s missing: heartbroken Yankees play first game after Thurman Munson’s death
- June 18, 1979: Earl Weaver rips up the MLB rulebook, gets ejected
- October 7, 1978: Bill Russell’s walk-off single sends Dodgers back to World Series; Steve Garvey wins NLCS MVP
SABR Journal Articles written by Joseph Wancho
- The Other Perry: Gaylord’s Big Brother Jim Helped Pitch the Twins to Two Division Titles
- Butch Wynegar: From Single-A to the Major League All-Star Game in One Year
- A Fox in White Sox
- Bill Melton: The South Side’s First Home Run King
- Steve Stone’s Cy Young Season
- Prologue: The Washington Senators: 1961-71
- Bears, Cubs, and a Moose, Oh My
- Mr. Cub: Ernie Banks
SABR Research Topics written by Joseph Wancho
SABR Research Articles written by Joseph Wancho
SABR Ballparks written by Joseph Wancho