Baker Bowl

Baker Bowl it was a wonderful place! More action probably took…

A Memorable Year: 1884; A Memorable Player: Jim Galvin

SABR member Gordon H. Fleming has written a highly praised book…

An Explosive Beginning

Baseball history was made April 6, 1932 at the corner of 10th…

Average Pitching and Fielding Skills Through Major League History

The 1980 Baseball Research Journal included a very intriguing…

Baseball Guides Galore

Record books have been compiled on every game of skill and athletic…

Burial Sites of Hall of Famers

Graveyards are not a significant part of baseball lore. True,…

Baseball Players, Managers and Umpires Active in Four Major Leagues, 1871-1907

The Federal League suspended operations after the 1915 campaign,…

Baseball’s Biggest Trade: A Revisionist’s Recounting

The 1954 major league baseball season ended leaving a lot of…

Baseball’s Big Hitters

Ralph Kiner the seventh-leading home run hitter of all time?…

Catchers As Base Stealers

    John Wathan of the Royals seemed an unlikely candidate…

Dobie Moore

"Has anybody else told you about Dobie Moore? Well, I'll tell…

Cleveland’s Contrasting Historic Games in 1932

The Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians played two…

Ed Reulbach Remembered

By vote of the members of the Society for American Baseball Research,…

Cy Block: His Second Successful Career

A career goal is not an easy thing to fulfill, as we all learn.…

The Early Years: A Gallery

What stories these pictures tell! They give voice to a game,…

Modern Times

Click on an image below to view Stuart Leeds's illustrated article,…

The Egyptian and the Greyhounds

Two years ago at an auction in St. Louis, I acquired a cabinet…

The Great New York Team of 1927—And It Wasn’t The Yankees

The 1927 New York Yankees, featuring Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, et…

Goose Goslin’s Induction Day

The date was July 22, 1968: a hot summer day in Cooperstown,…

All the Record Books are Wrong

Editor's note: In the 1982 launch of The National Pastime, reissued…

How Fast Was Cool Papa Bell?

Just how fast was Cool Papa Bell? Well, listen to the master…

Books Before Baseball: A Personal History

The image of American higher education reflected by college athletics…

Runs and Wins

This article was selected for inclusion in SABR 50 at 50: The…

Ballparks: A Quiz

1. Who were the two Cincinnati pitchers who took a rowboat across…

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