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Graphing Cumulative Rate Statistics

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1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York

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What Inspired ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’?

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James Lanier: Ty Cobb’s Batboy

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A Tall Tale of “The Brethren”

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A Tale of Two Umpires: When Al Salerno and Bill Valentine Got Thrown Out of the Game

Baseball traveled through rough waters beginning in the late…

The Deadball Era’s Worst Pitching Staff

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Modern Baseball’s Greatest-Hitting Team: The 1930 Phillies’ Opponents

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Arbitrator Seitz Sets the Players Free

Introduction The most important labor arbitration decision of…

AggPro: The Aggregate Projection System

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A Crank on the Court: The Passion of Justice William R. Day

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Fall 2009 Baseball Research Journal

The Sport of Courts: Baseball and the Law

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Alito: The Origin of the Baseball Antitrust Exemption

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Comiskey’s Detectives

In December 2007, a huge collection of documents, most related…

BOOKS: Two new biographies of Alexander Cartwright

Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention…

LETTERS: Rating the commissioners — and dog mascots

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LETTERS: The Dodger in the Royals uniform

Debunking the legend about a famous Jackie Robinson photo from…

LETTERS: Al Jolson?

Examining the fascinating cover image of Judge Landis from the…

Zooming In On A Great Old Photo

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Sid Hudson

Former Washington Senators pitcher and pitching coach Sidney…

Plenty of Stars, But Few Cigars

As the American League’s pecking order of the 1950s was established,…

War at Griffith Stadium

On April 25, 1933, the Senators and the Yankees engaged in one…

Buzz Arlett’s Remarkable 1932 Season

During a five-week span in 1932, minor-league legend Buzz Arlett…

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