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…
Plummeting Batting Averages Are Due to Far More than Infield Shifting: Part Two: Strikeouts
In the opener of this two-part series, published in Baseball…
Scanning the World of Baseball Streaks: Part Two
In “Going Beyond the Baseball Adage ‘One Game at a Time’:…
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…
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…
From Crookston to Cooperstown: Chet Brewer and John Donaldson Battle in a 12-Inning Integrated Duel
The 1931 baseball season began as the teeth of the Great Depression…
A Giant’s Fall (To Minneapolis): Future Hall of Famer Dave Bancroft Reluctantly Guides the Millers’ Tumultuous 1933 Season
The Minneapolis Millers’ 1933 home opener featured three-seat…
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…
Prelude to a Pennant: Twins Baseball, 1961–64
When the Washington Senators moved to a Minnesota home
As…