
Handy Andy Pafko: A Wisconsin-Born Player Succeeds In Chicago And Milwaukee
Andy “Pruschka” Pafko was born to Czech parents in…

A Fox in White Sox
In the modern game, a team’s fortune or failure…

The Path to the Cubs and White Sox from the Negro Leagues: 17 Barrier Breakers
Numerous talents from the Negro Leagues made their…

The Michigan City White Caps
In the early 1950s, minor league baseball was in a decline.…

1967: A Perfect Season for Ken Holtzman: A Weekend Wonder in the Summer of Love
The flip side of Ken Holtzman’s 1968 Topps baseball…

Bill Melton: The South Side’s First Home Run King
“Now it’s even. It’s neck and neck. We’ll start from…

Bill Veeck: The Second Time Around
Bill Veeck had a decades-long baseball career.…

Belle of the Ballclub: Marla Collins’s Unusual Path from Cubs Ballgirl to Playboy Model
Smile. Tilt your head. Lean back. A little more.…

Field of Hollywood Dreams: Actors and Their Baseball Roles Beyond the World’s Most Famous Cornfield
Kevin Costner’s place in the Hollywood-baseball paradigm…

Larry Fritsch, Card King: First Full-Time Dealer’s Legacy Continues After 53 Years
In 1989, Larry Fritsch sat in a rural Wisconsin warehouse—big…

Reborn at 111 Years Old: Wisconsin’s Glorious Neighborhood Park Plays with History
Wausau, Wisconsin’s Athletic Park opened just…

Editor’s Note: The National Pastime 2023
Welcome, my friends, not just to the Windy City, but…

Paper Tigers: How a Player Strike Put a Team of ‘Misfits’ on a Major League Field for a Day
One of the most unusual baseball games in American League…

Instant Relief: First-Batter Triple Plays
R—O—L—A—I—D—S. The answer in the classic ad:…

Celebrating the Nons: Many ‘Unofficial’ No-Hitters More Fascinating than the ‘Real’ Ones
As we are told by the good-hair talking heads on 24-hour…

The Death and Rebirth of the Home Team Batting First
According to conventional baseball wisdom, the home team…

Strategic Pitch Location: The Role of Two-Pitch Sequences in Pitching Success
On the surface, baseball does not appear overly complex.…

Standardized Peak WAR (SPW): A Fair Standard for Historical Comparison of Peak Value
When judging the greatness of a baseball player’s career…

The Relationship Between WAR and the Selection of Annual Performance-Based Awards
It has been over 20 years since Baseball Prospectus developed…

Trades from Hell: A Tale of Two Cities
The major league baseball clubs of Cleveland and…

Quantifying the Effect of Offseason Contract Extensions on Short-Term Player Performance
Over the past generation, sabermetricians have expended a…

The 1877 National League’s Two Cincinnati Clubs: Were They In or Out, and Why the Confusion?
In 1877 the National League began the season on April 30…

A Stepping Stone to the Majors: The Olympic Base Ball Club of Paterson, 1874-76
As major league baseball grew throughout the late nineteenth…

The Invention of the Baseball Glove: The Case for the Forgotten 1901 Web-Pocketed Glove
It is quite a natural thing to ask, “When was the baseball…
