Focus on the Giants’ Cheating Scandal of 1951

Today a specter hangs over the Giants’ miraculous 1951 season.…

Did Sign Stealing Make A Major Difference in the 1951 Pennant Race?

The end of the 1951 National League pennant race is legendary…

1951 Giants: Fortune smiled on Bobby Thomson’s lucky glove

Bobby Thomson’s home run in the bottom of the ninth in the…

1951 Giants in the All-Star Game

On July 10, 1951, the National League defeated the American League,…

The 1951 World Series

A summary of the 1951 World Series, won by the New York Yankees…

1951 Giants: Award recognition

1951 Cy Young Award Official recognition of baseball’s best…

1951 Giants: The Shot’s Long Shadow

I don’t know how he got hold of me. Probably it was through…

Appendix: Female Baseball Teams in New York, 1850-1898

This appendix is related to the article, "Women’s Baseball…

1947 Yankees: The hiring of manager Bucky Harris

The announcement on November 5, 1946 that Bucky Harris would…

1947 Yankees: Spring training in Florida

The Yankees traveled to Florida for spring training in 1947 seeking…

1947 Yankees: The Yankees’ involvement with Leo Durocher’s suspension

Leo Durocher's season-long suspension in 1947 resulted from several…

1947 Yankees: Reynolds and Raschi, building blocks of a dynasty

Two pitchers emerged in the New York Yankees' remarkable 1947…

1947 Yankees: The 19-game winning streak

On June 29, 1947, the New York Yankees began a 19-game winning…

1947 Yankees: Bill Bevens’ almost World Series no-hitter

With the favored New York Yankees leading the Brooklyn Dodgers…
Oscar Charleston (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Hothead: How the Oscar Charleston Myth Began

Oscar Charleston is shown here in the uniform of the Santa…

‘Little League Home Runs’ in MLB History: The Denouement

At the SABR 45 convention held in Chicago in 2015, I presented…

Marvin Miller and the Birth of the MLBPA

“The unionization of professional athletes has been the most…

The ‘Strike’ Against Jackie Robinson: Truth or Myth?

This article was honored as a 2018 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research…

More Than Ballplayers: Baseball Players and Pursuit of the American Dream in the 1880s

This essay is intended as an exploratory survey of baseball players…

A Pitching Conundrum: Tim Keefe and Old Hoss Radbourne

In the 1912 season Rube Marquard, the left-handed pitcher of…

The Effect of Stride Length on Pitched Ball Velocity

One philosophy of pitching holds that pushing off the rubber…

Calculating Skill and Luck in Major League Baseball

One of my favorite topics is the contributions of skill and luck…

Doubleheaders with More Than Two Teams

A modern fan goes to the ballpark to see two teams battle each…

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