In Pursuit of Bull Durham

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From A Researcher’s Notebook (1983)

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Baseball Movies

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Fie on Figure Filberts: Some Crimes Against Clio

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Baseball Cartoon Memories

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Chief Bender – The Early Years

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An Assist for Jimmy Ryan

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All-Time College All-Star Teams

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Awarded First Base on Interference

In 1983 Dale Berra of the Pirates set a major league record by…

A Unique Double Play

John Cameron was an amateur player in the Boston area picked…

A Forgotten All-Star Game

During World War II there were a number of special benefit baseball…

The Non-Home Run Hitters

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The Bizarre Career of Rube Benton

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Wartime Baseball: Not That Bad

After the passing of nearly 40 years, as is the case since World…

Young and Old Home Run Hitters

At the SABR National Convention in Milwaukee in July 1983, one…

Thunder and Lightning: Players With Power and Speed

Power-Plus and Thunder and Lightning are just two of the names…

Women Players in Organized Baseball

On June 21, 1952, the Harrisburg, Pa., Senators of the Inter-State…

Two Measures of Fielding Ability

Baseball has been traditionally divided into the three major…

With Two Out in the Ninth: The Almost No-Hitters

On April 15, 1983, pitcher Mitt Wilcox of the Detroit Tigers…

Today’s Battery: Babe Ruth and Joe Glenn

Every baseball fan worth his salt knows that Babe Ruth began…

The American Indian in the Major Leagues

During the long segregated era between 1887 and 1947, from the…

Silent George Burns: A Star in the Sunfield

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Searching for Victory: The Story of Charles Victor(y) Faust

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