Roy Tucker, Not Roy Hobbs: The Baseball Novels of John R. Tunis
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Introduction: The National Pastime, Spring 1986 (Deadball Era Pictorial Issue)
Two years after bringing you the first pictorial issue of The…
Illustrated Baseball Books
Author's note: The following compilation of illustrated baseball…
Baseball Joe Matson: The Greatest Player Who Never Was
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A Tour of Yankee Literature
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Bob Broeg: A Reminiscence of Red Smith
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Survey: What Baseball Books Do You Return to Most Often?
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Revealing a Larger Truth: A False Spring, by Pat Jordan
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Baseball Juvenile Literature
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The Negro Leagues Revisited
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Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson and Applied Psychology
With the 1911 season about finished, Shoeless Joe Jackson of…
Zane Grey’s Redheaded Outfield
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J. Lee Richmond’s Remarkable 1879 Season
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Protested Games Cause of Muddled Records
The position of league president is a sinecure. All he has to…
Anatomy of a Murder: The Federal League and the Courts
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Oscar Charleston No. 1 Star of 1921 Negro League
Oscar Charleston was known as “the Black Ty Cobb.” Both men…
Black Bluejackets: The Great Lakes Negro Varsity of 1944
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Long-Ball Heroes: Like Fictional Roy Hobbs, Yaz, Harm, Babe, Ted Led Turnabouts
On the theory that everyone has a little bit of the New York…
Aspirations: High School Teammates Who Reached Big Leagues
Every spring thousands of high school athletes try out for their…
‘I Don’t Care If I Ever Get Back’: Late Finishes Leave Fans Limp But Ecstatic
AT 4:09 A.M. on Easter morning, April 19, 1981, just 51 minutes…
Jimmy Cooney in Two Unassisted Triple Plays
The Twenties were still "Roaring,'' Lindbergh was in Paris, Coolidge…
Team 9 Games Behind as Good as Champion? Maybe; Figuring Probability Fluctuations in Baseball
All of us are familiar with stories such as the following appearing…
Comparisons: Is N.L. Really Better? Study Raises Doubts
In addition to the traditional fireworks displays on Independence…
Dramatic 1964 Nosedive in Retrospect: Explosive Weekend by Joe Torre Destroyed Pennant-Bound Phillies
A number of apparently pennant-bound teams have collapsed in…