Up to Washington: Bob Groom’s Early Life in Baseball

Knowing and living in the same household with my grandfather…

Country Ball: Big Teams in Small Towns

It was a hot summer day in 1897 when hundreds of fans of the…

Cupid Childs

Cupid Childs was one of the best-hitting major-league second…

Rookie Connie Mack: Washington in 1887

When Connie Mack began his rookie major league season with the…

Abraham Lincoln, Ballplayer?

Baseball is among the most heavily mythologized elements of American…

Players Being ‘Clutch’ When Targeting 20 Wins

In a blog post of March 23, 2008 (“Do Players Turn ‘Clutch’…

Catcher ERA — Once More with Feeling: It’s Tough to Be a Rookie

Do catchers in general do a better job of handling the pitching…

The Little Corporation: Professional Baseball in San Francisco, 1953–1955

Of the many minor leagues that existed in professional baseball…

Who Invented Runs Produced?

Referral to the glossary of statistical terms in the first edition…

Leon Allen Goslin: The Wild Goose of the Potomac

The only player to appear in every inning of all nineteen World…

Baseball Braggin’ Rights: The Five-State Series, 1922–1927

Fans come from miles around—families in wheezing Model Ts,…

James Vincent Jamison Jr.: Blue Ridge League President, 1916–18, 1920–30

Much more than a booster of baseball locally, V. Jamison Jr.,…

The All-Time Team of Bob Davids Chapter Natives

The geography that includes the District of Columbia, Virginia,…

The Class D Blue Ridge League: 1918, the Lost Season

The Great War in Europe had finally reached the shores of the…

BOOKS: In the Best Interests of Baseball? The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig

In the Best Interests of Baseball? The Revolutionary Reign of…

BOOKS: Robinson, Race, and Brooklyn

Barack Obama's election last fall to the presidency of the United…

A Response By Norman Macht

Editor's note: This article is in response to "The Gentlemen’s…
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, circa 1915 (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

Can You Read, Judge Landis?

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Black Ball:…

The Rise and Fall of Greenlee Field

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Black Ball:…

The Quest for Dick McBride

This article was originally published in SABR's Nineteenth Century…
Harry Frazee (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

History versus Harry Frazee: Re-revising the Story

This article was selected for inclusion in SABR 50 at 50: The…

A Man of Many Faucets, All Running at Once: Books by and about Branch Rickey

Lee Lowenfish. Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman.…

Beating the Klan: Baseball Coverage in Wichita Before Integration, 1920–1930

Baseball fans planning to attend the game at Island Park in Wichita,…

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