
Black Cats, Blue Suits, and Orange Socks: How Earl Weaver’s Orioles Thrived on Superstition
Meooowwwwww, avoid black cats! Don’t step on the base lines!…

Steve Stone’s Cy Young Season
The 1978 Baltimore Orioles already had a stable full of thoroughbreds…

Billy Martin and the Baltimore Brawls
The Yankees headed to Baltimore for a three-game series beginning…

Lou Gehrig and Cal Ripken Jr.: Two Quiet Heroes
As I write this, I am aware that I might be the only person…

Retrosheet Begins in Baltimore
We baseball fans want the truth. Some of us want to know how…

Itchy Xu: From Chinese Sports Trailblazer to Baltimore Orioles Prospect
A group of boys hung over their dorm’s balcony railing, hardly…

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…

Download the e-book edition of The National Pastime 2020
SABR members, you can now download The National Pastime: A…

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…