Charlie Culver, right, is honored as manager of the 1950 Montreal junior champions.

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

Tom Loftus: The American League’s Forgotten Founding Father

In 1877, an auburn-haired 20-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri,…
Reggie Jackson (THE TOPPS COMPANY)

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…
Lester Pearson

First Base Among Equals: Prime Ministers and Canada’s National Game

It could be argued that the most famous sentence ever written…
Lester Pearson

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…
Aaron Nola

Using Clustering to Find Pitch Subtypes and Effective Pairings

Introduction Using Statcast data, it is now possible to compare…
Nick Gonzales

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…

Download the e-book version of Fall 2019 Baseball Research Journal

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Left Out: Handedness and the Hall of Fame

Handedness historically has been of importance to how the game…

Why OPS Works

Pete Palmer, the inventor of OPS (on-base plus slugging), explains…

Rating Baseball Agencies: Who is Delivering the Goods?

In the summer of 2018 Washington Post reporter Jorge Castillo…

Hot Streaks, Screaming Grounders, and War: Conceptual Metaphors in Baseball

Until my freshman year of college, the only books I’d read…

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