Baseball Before a Captive Audience: The Minnesota State Prison’s Sisal Sox, 1914-72
One aspect of amateur baseball that is largely unexplored is…
Gladys Goodding, Ebbets Field Organ Queen
Gladys Goodding was more than just an artiste whose musical…
Broadcasting Red Sox Baseball: How the Arrival of Radio Impacted the Team and the Fans
In the early years of the American League, Boston fans had…
Fanatic Fatality: One of the Most Violent Baseball Arguments In History
The underlying aggressiveness in rivalries between baseball teams…
Champions, Tantrums and Bad Umps: The 1885 “World Series”
For more than a century the World Series has been an integral…
From Recorder to Judge: The Evolution of the Scorer in the Nineteenth Century
Official scorers in baseball make judgments about the game—whether…
What Do Umpires Do Exactly?
With the advent of limited instant replay in MLB in 2008,…
Yanet Moreno, the First Woman Umpire in Any Country’s Major League
Walking into the old-school-like surroundings of Estadio…
When the Rules Aren’t The Rules
Randy Marsh, inspecting fair/foul angles at Fenway Park’s…
A Visit to the Wendelstedt Umpire School in 2017
Working on mechanics, Wendelstedt School, January 2017.
After…
What’s In the Water in Coldwater, Michigan?
Coldwater, Michigan had a population of 10,945 at the time…
‘Helping People Is An Easy Call’: The Story of UMPS CARE Charities
Gerry Davis and Sam Holbrook spend time with a patient…
‘Yer blind, Ump, Yer blind, Ump, Ya mus’ be out-a yer mind, Ump!’: Umpires on Screen and Stage
Lobby card for "Kill the Umpire" (1950) starring William…
Umpiring in Korea
Korean umpire Won Hyun-sik. (Author's collection)
In…
Umpiring in Cuba
Mid-game refreshment break for Cuban umpires. Mártires…
Umpires in Postseason
Editor's note: All statistics are current through the 2016…
An Umpire’s Fan Club
Henry “Hank” Morgenweck had a brief but highly unusual…
Umpires and No-Hitters
Note: All statistics are current through the 2016 season.
Bruce…
Umpires and Health
Umpire John McSherry. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)
In…
Appendix 1: Quasi-Cycles — Better Than Cycles?
This is the appendix for "Quasi-Cycles — Better Than Cycles?"…
Appendix 1: Analysis of Andrés Galarraga’s Home Run of May 31, 1997
This is the appendix for "Analysis of Andres Galarraga’s Home…
Appendix 1: The Complete Collegiate Baseball Record of President George H.W. Bush
This is the appendix to "The Complete Collegiate Baseball Record…
Umpire Schools: Training Grounds for the Guardians of the Game
Introduction
In September 2005 the confirmation hearings…
Umpire Mechanics
At Fenway Park, the umpires take the field through the…