
Action Jackson: Watching Baseball Remotely, Before TV
With the weather turning crisp in October of 1916, sports fans…

Help in High Places
On May 3, 1897, the ministers of Atlanta announced their determination…

Who’s Going to Pitch?
While controversies related to baseball in the nineteenth century…

Memphis Bill in Newnan
As the last National League player to bat .400 in a season, Bill…

Joe Reliford: The Inning of a Lifetime
One inning of Class D ball made Joe Louis Reliford a baseball…

Shootout at Hardscrabble Church
The affair of honor that began on Saturday, October 20, 1883,…

Memories of a Minor-League Traveler
Once upon a time in a faraway place—a place so far away no…

Risqué Business
For about two weeks in July 1886, crowds gathered around a window…

Three Georgia-Born Former Dodgers Lead the Crackers to a Pennant
A 1950 preseason poll of Southern Association sportswriters picked…

Ty Cobb, Actor
During the first years of the twentieth century many of the most…

Ty Cobb as Seen through the Eyes of a Batboy
COLLABORATOR’S NOTE: My friendship with James Fargo (Jimmy)…

Red Moore: He Could Pick It!
Whenever a Negro Leagues veteran is asked about James “Red”…

Frank Anderson: The Dean of Southern College Baseball Coaches, 1916–1944
[He] could watch a player plow a field and tell whether there…

The Brooklyn Dodgers in Jersey City
INTRODUCTION
The Dodgers are playing the Yankees at Yankee…

The Green and the Blue: The Irish American Umpire, 1880–1965
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s and ’50s was probably…

More Thoughts on DiMaggio’s 56-Game Hitting Streak
Each time a player is at bat in a game, there is a certain probability…

Stealing First Base
BASEBALL BATS OUTSIDE THE BOX
There are a number of different…

All-Time Georgia-Born All-Star Team
In anticipation of hosting SABR 40, the Magnolia Chapter has…

Spring Training in Georgia: The Yannigans Are Coming!
From the beginning of professional baseball in the nineteenth…

Braves Alphabet
A is for AARON—“Hammerin’ Hank” and Tommie, too—
and…

The All-Time Atlanta Braves All-Star Team
In addition to an All-Time Georgia-born All-Star team, the Magnolia…

Remembering Skip
"Skip and Pete" — Caray and Van Wieren — broadcast Atlanta…

Ms. Eliza Gets a Seat
It wasn't April Fools Day, but it was a Friday the 13th; maybe…

The Red Clay of Waycross: Minor-League Spring Training in Georgia with the Milwaukee Braves
Other than being eaten alive and shot at, Waycross was great.…