The Single’s Slow Fade: The Diminishing Role of the Single Since the Deadball Era

Major League Baseball implemented a package of rule changes…

Ghost Stories and Zombie Invasions: Testing the Myths of Extra-Inning Outcomes

After several years of testing in Minor League Baseball, Major…

Does the Home Team Batting Last Affect Game Outcomes? Evidence from Relocated Games

Major-league rules have stipulated since 1950 that the home…

The Third Time Is the Charm: The 1939 Pensacola Fliers

The white sand beaches and warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico…

Do Baseball Batters Keep Their Eye on the Ball?

One of the best-known pieces of advice in baseball is to keep…

Scanning the World of Baseball Streaks: Part Two

In “Going Beyond the Baseball Adage ‘One Game at a Time’:…
Fall 2024 Baseball Research Journal

Editor’s Note: Fall 2024 Baseball Research Journal

First, a little housekeeping. The SABR main office has created…

Barney Bricelin: Baseball’s Smallest Umpire

This article was published in the SABR Deadball Era Committee’s…
The National Pastime: Baseball in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

Editor’s Note: The National Pastime 2024

In late March of each year as the MLB season opens, I…

The First Pennant for Minneapolis

Even though Minneapolis had been home to a professional club…

A ‘Peaceful War of Baseball’: University of Minnesota Beats Waseda University, 3–2, in 15 Innings, May 26, 1911

In 1905, Tokyo’s Waseda University became the first Japanese…

Rube Foster’s Canadian Farm Teams

  Veteran right-handed pitcher Frank Wickware posted…

100 Years Since Local Franchise’s First World Title: 1924 Washington Senators

Lefty George Mogridge entered Game Seven of the 1924 World…

Spencer Harris: A Decade of Minor-League Greatness in Minneapolis

Forty years ago, the Society for American Baseball Research…
Dave Bancroft (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)
Hal Trosky

Hal Trosky: A Norway, Iowa, Boy Makes Good in the Major Leagues

On a long, lonesome highway east of Omaha lies Norway, Iowa,…

The Nights The Lights Went On In The Twin Cities

Installing the lights at Lexington Park, St. Paul, in May 1937.…

Minneapolis Millerettes

As late as the 1980s, the softball/baseball Minneapolis Millerettes…

Twin Cities Rivalry Feeds New York Rivalry, 1946–57

  During the years following World War II, the minor…

The Promised Land: The Twin Cities’ Long Flirtation with Major League Baseball

In the 1950s, as the population of the United States shifted,…

Old-Fashioned Town Ball Is Flourishing in Minnesota

Most baseball fans are familiar with historian Jacques Barzun’s…
Jim Kaat (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

Prelude to a Pennant: Twins Baseball, 1961–64

When the Washington Senators moved to a Minnesota home As…