
Relief Pitching Strategy: Past, Present, and Future?
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for Our Hero. After a dozen years…

Seven Degrees of Separation? Analyzing MLB Played-With Relationships, 1930-2016
INTRODUCTION
This article reports on MLB "played-with" relationships…

Hit Probability as a Function of Foul-Ball Accumulation
In a day and age when professional baseball has implemented countdown…

Just Like a Big Leaguer: The Chicago Tribune Amateur Baseball Contest of 1915
In 1915, the Chicago Tribune announced a contest to…

‘When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It’: Who Took the Cycle or Quasi-Cycle?
Choices … Decisions: A player has already connected for one…

‘I Thought We Had A Roof’: Marlins All Wet After Opening Day Rain Delay Gaffe
On Opening Day of the 2015 season, Miami Marlins players and…

Regular Season Showdowns
One game for the pennant: winner takes the flag. Tiebreaker playoffs…

The Impact of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Collective Bargaining Agreements
“In baseball no team can be successful unless its competitors…

How Bases on Balls were Scored: 1864–1888
Baseball-Reference.com includes “A note about statistics…

Was Willie Keeler the First to Record Four 5-Hit Games in a Season During the 19th Century?
The feat of collecting five or more hits in a single game was…

Origin of the Phrase ‘Hitting for the Cycle’ and An Approach to How Cycles Occur
One of the most exciting accomplishments in major league baseball…

1933-1962: The Business Meetings of Negro League Baseball
Editor's note: This article, originally published in "Baseball's…

Editor’s note: Spring 2018 Baseball Research Journal
A note from the editor of the Baseball Research Journal.I was…

Henry Chadwick Award: Andrew Zimbalist
Andrew Zimbalist (1947 – ) published Baseball and Billions…

Henry Chadwick Award: Tom Shieber
Tom Shieber (1964 – ) was still a boy in St. Louis when he…

Henry Chadwick Award: Bob McConnell
Bob McConnell (1925–2012) was an original SABR member from…

Henry Chadwick Award: Jefferson Burdick
“A Card Collection is a magic carpet that takes you away from…

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Appendix 1: MLB cycles through 2017
A list of all documented cycles through the end of the 2017 MLB…

You Know Me Al, by Ring Lardner
Editor's note: This article was originally published in the April…

Erve Beck: The Prince of Forgotten Firsts
Editor's note: This article was originally published in the April…

Big League Cheating
Editor's note: This article was published in the April 2018 edition…

Introduction: Time for Expansion Baseball
The title of this book, Time for Expansion Baseball, was…

Foreword: Time for Expansion Baseball
JULY 2, 2018 — While I was somewhat oblivious to it at…