
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…

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…

Introduction: Harvey’s Wallbangers: The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers
Harvey’s Wallbangers. What a moniker for the 1982 Milwaukee…

1982 Brewers: The Fingers-Simmons-Vuckovich Deal
On December 12, 1980, the Brewers and the St. Louis Cardinals…

Harvey Kuenn: The Final Puzzle Piece
On June 2, 1982, general manager Harry Dalton’s firing of second-year…

‘Whiteyball’ in the Shadow of the Gateway Arch: The 1982 St. Louis Cardinals
On September 27, 1982, pregame showers in Montreal held up the…

1982 Brewers: The Parade in Milwaukee
A person not knowing the final score and watching the homecoming…

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…
