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…

Give the Yankee Pitchers Credit

Many baseball historians credit the New York Yankees with being…

World Series Rarities: The Three-Game Winners

During the 1981 World Series, pitcher George Frazier of the Yankees…

Pitchers Giving Up Home Runs

Records of home runs hit by batters have been a part of baseball…

Scoring Every Inning

The structure of baseball provides rare performances that can…

Some Call Him ‘Tarzan’

"It was my first spring training ever, at Jackson, Tennessee,…

The 1922 Pittsburgh Powerhouse

The year 1922 was a truly exciting one for baseball. The revolutionary…

The Blacklisting of Baseball’s Ray Fisher

To all but a handful of the several hundred spectators attending…

The Building of Chicago’s Wrigley Field

The 1981 baseball season marked the 66th straight year that the…

The 1892 Split Season

The 1981 split season, which resulted from a player strike lasting…

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