Category Archive: BioProject – Topic

George Davis

George Davis and Jane Holden

This essay is adapted from an article published in the September…
William Hulbert (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

The League Alliance

The League Alliance arose as the National League of Professional…
Jackie Robinson (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Baseball Demographics, 1947-2016

Several years ago, I (Mark) performed a research project to numerically…

Twilight at Ebbets Field

Ebbets Field has been gone for more than half a century, but…

Bob Quinn and the Farm System

This article was originally published in SABR's "Can He Play?…

Fidel Castro and Baseball

His fastball has long since died. He still has a few curveballs…
Harry Frazee (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Harry Frazee and the Red Sox

Editor's note: This article first appeared in the SABR Baseball…

The Oriole Way

Editor's note: This essay is from SABR's "Pitching, Defense,…

Baseball Integration, 1947-1986

In early 2007 major league baseball marked the 60th anniversary…
Walter Dilbeck

Global League

Major League Baseball’'s revenue generating power exploded during…

The Sporting News

The Sporting News is the oldest sporting publication in the United…

Dover Hall Club

The idea of a winter retreat appealed to many in the baseball…

Logan Squares

In the midst of a successful career in the major leagues, Jim…
Shoeless Joe Jackson (BLACKBETSY.COM)

Bethlehem Steel League

Organized Baseball faced challenges on several fronts during…

Joe Hardy

Every so often there comes a phenom who streaks across the baseball…

Cuban League

Editor's note: This article was published in 2016. The popular…

Ball Four

Nearly a half-century after its publication, one does not encounter…

Manikin Baseball Indicator

With the weather turning crisp in October of 1916, sports fans…

Salerno/Valentine Case

Baseball traveled through rough waters beginning in the late…

Scouting Jack Doyle

Among the top scouts, few have possessed as varied a background…

1947 Yankees Ownership

What came to be known as the Yankees Dynasty began under the…

Altoona Unions

The years have not been particularly kind to Altoona, Pennsylvania.…