The Death and Rebirth of the Home Team Batting First

According to conventional baseball wisdom, the home team…

Strategic Pitch Location: The Role of Two-Pitch Sequences in Pitching Success

On the surface, baseball does not appear overly complex.…

Standardized Peak WAR (SPW): A Fair Standard for Historical Comparison of Peak Value

When judging the greatness of a baseball player’s career…

The Relationship Between WAR and the Selection of Annual Performance-Based Awards

It has been over 20 years since Baseball Prospectus developed…

Trades from Hell: A Tale of Two Cities

  The major league baseball clubs of Cleveland and…

Quantifying the Effect of Offseason Contract Extensions on Short-Term Player Performance

Over the past generation, sabermetricians have expended a…

A Stepping Stone to the Majors: The Olympic Base Ball Club of Paterson, 1874-76

As major league baseball grew throughout the late nineteenth…

The Invention of the Baseball Glove: The Case for the Forgotten 1901 Web-Pocketed Glove

It is quite a natural thing to ask, “When was the baseball…

Special Excerpt: The Cool of the Evening

Excerpted from The Cool of the Evening by Paula Kurman, to…

Special Excerpt: ‘We Were the Only Girls to Play at Yankee Stadium’

This excerpt is from the recent SABR book, Yankee Stadium…
Steve Gietscher

Henry Chadwick Award: Steve Gietschier

These are the qualifications for the Henry Chadwick Award:…
Mark Rucker

Henry Chadwick Award: Mark Rucker

From daguerreotypes to stereo views to modern wire photos,…
Robert Whiting

Henry Chadwick Award: Robert Whiting

Robert “Bob” Whiting was born in 1942 in Long Branch, New…

Editor’s Note: Spring 2023 Baseball Research Journal

I think one of the things that intrigues us endlessly…
Yankee Stadium 1923-2008: America's First Modern Ballpark, edited by Tara Krieger and Bill Nowlin

Introduction: Yankee Stadium 1923-2008: America’s First Modern Ballpark

For a franchise with 40 pennants and 27 World Series championships…

Introduction: Willie Mays: Five Tools

The actress and noted Giants baseball fan Tallulah Bankhead once…

Willie Mays: The Embodiment of The Negro Leagues

“These men couldn’t do what I did because they didn’t…

Tracking Down Willie Mays’s 1948 Game Log

  A teenage Willie Mays with the Birmingham Black Barons. Mays’…

The Negro Leagues Beyond 1948, and The Adventures of a Boy Named Willie

By consensus, it has been deemed that the Negro Leagues died…

Willie Mays in Trenton

Birmingham Black Barons center fielder Willie Mays was not…

Willie Mays Had a Spectacular—But Short—Stay in Minneapolis

Willie Mays with the Minneapolis Millers in 1951. (SABR-Rucker…

Willie Mays at The Polo Grounds

Willie Mays batted .298 in 399 career games at the Polo Grounds…

Willie Mays: All-Time All-Star

“They invented the All-Star Game for Willie Mays.” –…