
The Toronto Maple Leafs: The Barrow Years, 1900-1902
Ed Barrow (SABR-Rucker Archive)
The Toronto franchise…

Ladies of the Night Game: Toronto’s Lighted Diamonds and the Women Who Pioneered Playing Under the Stars
Hanlan’s Point illuminated in 1928, not for baseball, but…

Daily Operations in the United States Negro Baseball League, 1945–46
Gus Greenlee, in hat and tie, shown here with some members…

Scoreboard Numbers vs. Uniform Numbers: The 1931–34 Detroit Tigers and the Letter of the Law
Who’s the batter? Nowadays, fans attending a Detroit Tigers…

The Lancaster Loophole: Pennsylvania Blue Laws Bring the Harrisburg Giants to Rossmere Base Ball Park, 1925–27
The Harrisburg Giants joined the Eastern Colored League in…

Crucial Choices: O’Malley, Dressen, and Reese Rolled the Dice in Brooklyn
Charlie Dressen. (SABR-Rucker Archive)
As soon as…

Assessing the Accuracy of Runs Created: Comparing Outside and Inside Aggregation Methods
Any accuracy assessment of Bill James’s Runs Created (RC) requires…

Using Z-Scores to Measure Player Performance
In recent years, statistics have been developed to facilitate…

Infield Hit Model, Part 2: Use the Whole Field, Hit Line Drives
Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals (Trading Card Database)
Tom…

Josh Gibson’s Place in History: A Statistical Analysis
Had he been able to play a 154-game schedule every season,…

More than a Sport: Early Developments of Baseball in Lawrence, Kansas
Vinland baseball team circa 1920. (Kenneth Spencer Research…

The Original Cactus League
Warren Ballpark in Bisbee, Arizona, has hosted baseball games…

The Impact of Laser Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) on MLB Batting Performance
Catcher Wilson Ramos is one of many athletes who have undergone…

It’s Supposed to Be Hard: Why It’s Harder to Get an Orchestra Job than to Play Professional Baseball
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone…

Henry Chadwick Award: Rob Fitts
ROB FITTS (1965– ) created a new branch of scholarship around…

Henry Chadwick Award: Gary Gillette
GARY GILLETTE (1952– ) has spent four decades contributing…

Henry Chadwick Award: Richard Malatzky
In the early days of SABR, many of its most skilled researchers…

Editor’s Note: Spring 2025 Baseball Research Journal
I have news about the publications department here at SABR.…

Appendix: Scoreboard Numbers vs. Uniform Numbers: The 1931–34 Detroit Tigers and the Letter of the Law
This is the online appendix for Herm Krabbenhoft's article, "Scoreboard…

Appendix: Infield Hit Model, Part 2: Use the Whole Field, Hit Line Drives
This is the online appendix to Donald Slavik's article, "Infield…

Settling the Score: The Story of the First Congressional Baseball Game in 1909
This article was published in the SABR Deadball Era Committee’s…

Q&A with author Norman Macht
This article was published in the SABR Deadball Era Committee’s…

A History of the Ottawa Lynx: From Their First Season to Their Last
An Ottawa Lynx pitcher delivers a pitch during a Triple-A…

Baseball’s Ottawa-Born Maple Wood Revolution
For an eager baseball fan, there’s nothing quite like the…