When Sam Malone Faced Boog Powell
Baltimoreans strolling on Eutaw Street outside Oriole Park before…
Promising Flight of Baby Birds
Other than finishing a season in first place,
Nothing is more…
Editor’s Note: The National Pastime 2020
Welcome, friends, to our “virtual visit” to Charm City. A…
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Appendix 1: Howie Fox: Baltimore’s Unique Oriole
This is the online appendix for Herm Krabbenhoft's "Howie Fox:…
Before We Forget: The Birth, Life, and Death of The Sporting News Research Center
This article was honored as a 2021 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research…
24 Years Before Jackie Robinson, Charlie Culver Broke Barriers in Montreal
In 1946, all eyes were on the Montreal Royals and Jackie Robinson…
A Global Fiasco: Walter Dilbeck’s Third Major League
Shifty. That’s a good word for Walter Dilbeck, the huckster…
Tom Loftus: The American League’s Forgotten Founding Father
In 1877, an auburn-haired 20-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri,…
The 1967 Dixie Series
From 1920 to 1958, baseball fans across the Deep South and Southwest…
Considerable Excitement and Heavy Betting: Origins of Base Ball in the Dakota Territory
When the Yankton Treaty was signed in 1858, the United States…
First Base Among Equals: Prime Ministers and Canada’s National Game
It could be argued that the most famous sentence ever written…
Lester B. Pearson: Canada’s Ballplayer Prime Minister
The first real job I had after university was working in politics…
Dennis Eckersley: The Last Thousand-Hundred Man
Introduction
If you pick the baseball milestone carefully enough,…
Maris and Ruth: Was the Season Games Differential the Primary Issue?
This article discusses Roger Maris's 1961 season from a new…
Cubic Players
When Brandon Nimmo took his position in right field on September…
Baseball 1858-1865: By the Numbers
Little serious statistical or analytical research has been…
Using Clustering to Find Pitch Subtypes and Effective Pairings
Introduction
Using Statcast data, it is now possible to compare…
cWAR: Modifying Wins Above Replacement with the Cape Cod Baseball League
Evaluating a player’s talent, ability, and contributions to…
Multi-Attribute Decision Making Ranks Baseball’s All Time Greatest Hitters
Introduction and History
I have taught or co-taught sabermetrics…
Henry Chadwick Award: Mike Haupert
Michael Haupert (1961–) dramatically expanded our understanding…
Henry Chadwick Award: Tom Tango
Tom Tango (1968–) was born in the suburbs of Montreal, where…
Henry Chadwick Award: Thomas Shea
Thomas Shea (1904–95) was one of the 16 founding members of…
Editor’s Note: Spring 2020 Baseball Research Journal
One thing I have learned through my long association with SABR…