Introduction: When Boston Still Had the Babe: The 1918 World Champion Red Sox

Late into the infamous 86-year championship drought of the Boston…

1919 American League salaries

In Eight Men Out, author Eliot Asinof wrote about the 1919…

1919 White Sox: Walking Off to the World Series

On September 24, 1919, Shoeless Joe Jackson stepped up to the…

1919 World Series: A Recap

A great deal has been written about the faceoff between the Chicago…

1919 White Sox: The Pitching Depth Dilemma

Lefty Williams, left, and Eddie Cicotte carried the load for…

1919 White Sox: Prologue (Offseason, 1918-19)

It’s accepted wisdom today that the Chicago White Sox, in the…

1919 White Sox: Epilogue (Offseason, 1919-20)

One day after the 1919 World Series ended, Chicago White Sox…

Foreword: The Whiz Kids Take the Pennant

I was just 20 years old heading into the 1950 season with the…

Crosley Field and the 1937 Flood in the Queen City

In the 1936-37 offseason, The Sporting News carried a series…

1918 World Series: Most Valuable Player

If an official MVP had been chosen for the 1918 World Series,…

1918 World Series: Boston Red Sox vs. Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs won the 1918 National League pennant by 10½…

1918 Red Sox: Spring Training

Frazee kicked off the new year making another move, again with…

1917 Red Sox: ‘An Off-Year’

The Red Sox were coming off back-to-back World Championships…

1918 Red Sox: Winning a Championship

Winning a championship involves a large number of ingredients…

Heinie Wagner: A Speculative History

When Ed Barrow agreed to join the Red Sox organization in 1918,…

Crosley Field: The Laundry

Beyond the outfield walls at Crosley Field, across Western Avenue…

Jim Brosnan’s The Long Season

In Mark Armour’s SABR biography of Jim Brosnan he observes…

Tigers and Crescents and Clowns, Oh My! Negro League Baseball at Crosley Field

“My favorite experience of ’em all – and I’ve seen baseball…

Evolving Home Run Distances at Crosley Field

On the eve of the opening game of the 1919 season in Cincinnati,…

Crosley Field: The Left Field Terrace

Babe Ruth famously stumbled on it. Outfielders regularly cursed…

Crosley Field: Goat Run

In 1946, Warren Giles, then the president of the Reds, added…

Johnny Edwards: Memories of Crosley Field

Johnny Edwards debuted with the Reds in late June 1961 and took…

Art Shamsky: My Reflections on Crosley Field

Signed by the Cincinnati Reds at the age of 17 in 1959, Art Shamsky…