Impact of the Varying Sacrifice Fly Rules on Batting Champs, 1931–2019
Jimmie Foxx had 11 RBI flyouts in 1932, but only one…
When the Fans Didn’t Go Wild: The 2020 MLB Season as a Natural Experiment on Home Team Performance
Juan Soto’s family represented as cardboard cutouts at…
A Minor Innovation: Uniform numbers in the minor leagues earlier than previously thought
Photographic evidence has emerged that disproves the oft-cited…
The Kitty’s Kentucky Return: The One-Off 1935 Paducah Red Birds
1935 Paducah Red Birds
B.B. Hook, Jr. is the child in…
Miracle on Beech Street: A History of the Holyoke Millers, 1977–82
Once a very sparsely settled farming community, Holyoke, Massachusetts’s…
The 1938–40 Québec Provincial League: The Rise and Fall of an Outlaw League
In 2015, I acquired booklets containing scoresheets for all games…
Lang Ball: Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Baseball Derivative and Peculiar Kickball Ancestor
The researchers at Protoball — the de facto authorities on…
‘Country’ Base Ball in the Boom of 1866: A Safari Through Primary Sources
The American national pastime of bat-and-ball games, played under…
Runs, Runs, and More Runs: Pre-Professional Baseball, By the Numbers
This article was selected as the winner of the 2022 McFarland-SABR…
Overall Offensive Performance (OOP)
We propose to measure overall offensive performance of a baseball…
Did Performance-Enhancing Drugs Prolong Careers?
Although the last decade of the Steroid Era was associated…
Community of Inquiry: A Blueprint for Bringing Baseball to African American Youth
From youth “select” baseball to the major leagues, the percentage…
Editor’s Note: Fall 2021 Baseball Research Journal
With an original cover illustration of Jim Bouton designed by…
Fred Odwell: The Oddest Home Run Champion of them All
This article was published in the SABR Deadball Era Committee’s…
Larry Dierker: A Look Back at the Astrodome
As a Little Leaguer in Southern California, I was thrilled when…
The Wall: A ‘69 Mets Quest
In early 1970, when I was a freshman at St.John's University,…
1969 Mets: Everyone Comes Home in October
A passion for baseball, like all passions, is a webwork of…
1969 Mets: A Cubs Eye View
I didn’t even know that it would be so at the time, but looking…
October ‘69: The Miracle at Willets Point
If you had asked fans prior to the 1969 baseball season which…
1969 Mets: Platoon … Halt!
The platoon system that became legend for the 1969 Mets was…
Beware of Moose: Buc No-Hits ‘69 Mets
As great a season as the Mets crafted in 1969, New York’s…
1969 Mets: Terrific Imperfection
George Thomas Seaver and George Herman Ruth shared the same…
Putting the Miracle in Miracle Mets
Even when the Mets were at their most mediocre, dramatic victories…
1969 Mets: A Season of Streaks, Shocks, and Shutouts
One of the key elements of drama for a baseball miracle is…