
The Longest Streaks of Consecutive Games in Which a Detroit Tiger Has Scored a Run (1920–44)
In a companion article, "The Authorized Correction of Errors…

The Authorized Correction of Errors in Runs Scored in the Official Records (1920–44) for Detroit Tigers Players
The run is the most fundamental and the most important statistic…

Modeling Perfect Games and No-Hitters in Baseball
Through Major League Baseball’s first 134 years, 1876–2009,…

Now I Can Die In Peace
You the living, you’re stuck here with the Cubs, So it’s…

Why A Curse Need Not Be Invoked To Explain The Cubs’ Woes
The most striking facet of the Chicago Cubs’ long-term underachievement…

29 Years and Counting: A Visit With Longtime Cubs Scout Billy Blitzer
The 2011 season marks Billy Blitzer’s 29th consecutive year…

Growing Up With The 1950s Cubs
For a youngster passionately devoted to baseball and living on…

The Chicago Cubs and ‘The Headshrinker’: An Early Foray into Sports Psychology
The 1937 season had been frustrating for the Chicago Cubs. After…

Wrigley Field: A Century of Survival
Fans depart Wrigley Field via the diamond. Note the temporary…

Weathering Spring Training: The Chicago Federals in Shreveport, Louisiana, 1914
INTRODUCTION
Someone should have told Charles H. Weeghman to…

The 1906-10 Chicago Cubs: The Best Team in National League History
Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance — the defensive…

Chicago’s Role in Early Professional Baseball
Chicago’s first professional baseball club was founded following…

The Cubs Fan Paradox: Why Would Anyone Root For Losers?
Cubs fans raise a fundamental question about the nature of games…

“No, I’m a Spectator Like You”: Umpiring in the Negro American League
Bob Motley umpired in the Negro American League from 1947 through…

The Law Firm and the League: Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP, Major League Baseball, and MLB.com
This is (roughly) the tenth anniversary of the transfer of a…

The Macmillian Baseball Encyclopedia, the West System, and Sweat Equity
There is beauty in finding that beneath a complex system, one…

The Fightingest Pennant Race: Brockton versus Lawrence in the Eastern New England League, 1885
It has been noted time and time again that the search for the…

It’s Not Fiction: The Race to Host the 1954 Southern Association All-Star Game
For the first eleven days of July 1954, the Atlanta Crackers,…

Departure Without Dignity: The Athletics Leave Philadelphia
With Connie Mack’s election as president of…

Field of Liens: Real-Property Development in Baseball
Baseball is at one and the same time an idyllic game for children…

Review: Brilliant Specialists
On "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams"
Hub…

Review: The Dark Side of a Baseball Dynasty
Four books on the Bronx Bombers.
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle…

Review: Charlie Finley
On "Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball’s Super…

Is There Racial Bias Among Umpires?
Is there widespread racial bias among umpires? In August 2007,…