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…

The Writer’s Game: The Field Of Play

FOR ALMOST A CENTURY baseball has engaged layers of the imagination…

From a Researcher’s Notebook: Baltimore, the Eastern Shore, And More (1982)

Baltimore’s Worst Starts In Years Ending in “2” It was…

Double Joe Dwyer: A Life In the Bushes

When Joe Dwyer was a kid in high school, his teammates on the…

Ladies and Gentlemen, Presenting Marty McHale

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

A Tale of Two Sluggers: Roger Maris and Hack Wilson

If  you were asked what Hack Wilson and Roger Maris had in common,…

Dandy at Third: Ray Dandridge

Squat, bow-legged Ray Dandridge was a "vacuum cleaner" at third…

Baseball’s Misbegottens: Expansion Era Managers

In the 1970s, the very time when players and umpires gained wealth…
Fred Merkle (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

The Merkle Blunder: A Kaleidoscopic View

On September 23, 1908, as I wrote in The Un­forgettable Season, "the…

19th-Century Baseball Deserves Equal Time

On April 22, 1980, Chicago Cub shortstop Ivan DeJesus became…

Nate Colbert’s Unknown RBI Record

Nate Colbert set a single-season RBI record in 1972; hardly anyone…

Remembrance of Summers Past

In my years as a traveling baseball writer, namely 1946 through…

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