A list of the 13 times players hit 40 or more home runs during the 1980s

Baseball’s Forgotten Era: The ’80s

The 1980s was a decade of transition for baseball. Power numbers…

Development of the Yankees Scouting Staff

Beginning in 1921 the New York Yankees embarked upon one of the…
Joe Carter (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Out of Here: Home Runs in Canada

For a long time, a significant career home run record rested…
Established in 1936 in rural Cooperstown, New York, it plays host to an average of 350,000 visitors per year.

Baseball on Exhibit: Museums in the SABR Era

For better or worse, leisure and tourism have become big business.…
set many records in his Hall of Fame career. One of them was to be the first player to garner a reliably reported five-figure salary.

Baseball’s Major Salary Milestones

Baseball milestones are as well known to fans as their own birthdays…
Spent most of his career in the Pacific Coast League, but did get one at bat in the major leagues (Boston Red Sox, 1948)

Neill “Wild Horse” Sheridan and the Longest Home Run Ever Measured

On a warm summer evening July 8, 1953, Sacramento Solon Neill…
Total Major League HR, 1871-1918

Baseball’s First Power Surge: Home Runs in the Late 19th-Century Major Leagues

Many casual baseball fans and serious sabermetricians alike hold…
Returned to the A’s to manage in 1937 and 1939 when his father’s health was too poor to handle the job.

Quicker Than Quick: A 31-Minute Professional Game

BACKGROUND: The 2010 SABR convention publication, The National…
LSU's Box Score for Championship Game of 2009 College World Series

The PING Ratings: A Model for Rating NCAA Baseball Teams

BACKGROUND In 2008 the Fresno State Bulldogs beat the heavily…

Dana Levangie: Every Game is a Road Game

When Jason Varitek sets up low and outside, when Alex Gonzalez…

Gib Bodet: National Cross Checking

Cross-checkers, called regional scouting supervisors by some…

Lou Gorman: ‘You Don’t Win Without Good Scouts’: A GM’s Look At Scouting

As a baseball executive, Lou Gorman worked for more than a third…

Ben Jedlovec: An Intern’s Perspective on the Amateur Baseball Draft

As a baseball operations intern for the Houston Astros during…

Fernando Perez: Waiting For the Call

Speedy switch-hitting outfielder Fernando Perez of Columbia University…

Johnny Pesky, On Signing with the Red Sox

Stripped to the waist, Johnny was working as groundskeeper one…

Dave Baldwin: A Player’s View of Scouts in The 1950s

My first contacts with baseball scouts occurred in 1955 during…
Scoring for Perceptual Tests.

Talent Selection in Youth Baseball: Factors that Predict End-of-Season Success

INTRODUCTION One of the most appealing reasons for talent research…
Correlation between 50-player dataset #1.

More Highly Connected Baseball Players Have Better Offensive Performance

INTRODUCTION Social network analysis (SNA) is the mathematical…

Sol White

Racial discrimination did not miraculously disappear in 1863…

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