Indian Head and Canada’s Greatest Baseball Tournament, 1947-55
Indian Head Rockets sweater crest, 1951. (Indian Head…
The True Greatness of the ManDak League
The 1950 ManDak League Champion Winnipeg Buffaloes, featuring…
End of an Era: The Demise of the Montréal Royals
One could make a case that, between 1941 and 1953, the Montréal…
From a Canadian Baseball Researcher’s Notebook
Al Kermisch, who joined SABR in 1971, was a baseball researcher…
Marvels or Menaces: How the Press Covered ‘The Lady Baseballists,’ 1865-1915
It wasn’t so long ago that sports historians spent little…
Lizzie Murphy: An All-Star at Fenway Park
To date, there has only been one woman who played baseball…
Black Women Playing Baseball: An Introduction
The fiftieth anniversary of the passage of Title…
Babe Didrikson and Baseball
For most of Babe Didrikson’s life, Major League Baseball…
Bernice Gera and the Trial of Being First
On June 24, 1972, Bernice Gera became the first…
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Frontiers and Femininity in America’s Favorite Pastime
The 2014 Little League World Series left baseball…
Four Girls in Spring 1974: The First Foot-Soldiers of Female Inclusion in Little League Baseball
This article was honored as a 2023 McFarland-SABR Baseball…
‘It’s Like Coming Back to Paradise’: Willie Mays and the Mets
Mother’s Day, 1972. Willie Mays had just smacked…
The Nationally Televised Major League Baseball Game That Wasn’t
This story is about the first nationally telecast…
Swepsonville Ballpark: A Step Back in Time to North Carolina’s Textile Leagues
As Major League Baseball cuts out the lower rungs…
Radar (Gun) Love
For baseball fans who are no longer young, it is easy to…
Baseball, Hot Dogs, and ToxPi: An Approach for Visualizing Player Performance Metrics
Major League Baseball (MLB) is awash in advanced metrics…
A Baseball Statistic from the Fourth Dimension
How does one assess an individual player’s contribution…
Caught Looking: How Responsible Are Pitchers For Called Strikes?
The strikeout is one of the few outcomes ascribed to a pitcher's…
What Baseball Team Does PageRank Say Was the Best Ever?
Charles Dickens may well have written about baseball’s…
Henry Chadwick Award: James Brunson III
James Edward Brunson III (1954- ) is one of the very few historians…
Henry Chadwick Award: Jane Leavy
Jane Leavy (1951 - ) was born in a now defunct hospital in The…
Henry Chadwick Award: Daniel Okrent
Until now, the Chadwick Award has been intended to recognize…
Editor’s Note: Spring 2022 Baseball Research Journal
If you are a longtime reader of the Baseball Research Journal,…
Introduction: Not An Easy Tale To Tell: Jackie Robinson on the Page, Stage, and Screen
When Jack Roosevelt Robinson set foot on the green grass…