
Henry Chadwick Award: Lee Allen
At the time of his death in May 1969, LEE ALLEN had been the…

Henry Chadwick Award: Bob Davids
Bob Davids (1926–2002), a career federal-government employee,…

Henry Chadwick Award: Bill James
From his self-published "Abstracts" to his work with the Boston…

Henry Chadwick Award: Peter Morris
PETER MORRIS was born in 1962 in Birmingham, England, and grew…

Henry Chadwick Award: David S. Neft
It might be difficult for the twenty-first-century SABR member…

Henry Chadwick Award: Pete Palmer
PETE PALMER (b. 1938) began compiling baseball statistics on…

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

Baby Birds versus Bronx Bombers
IN THE six seasons following the transfer of the St. Louis Browns’…

Joe Hardy
EVERY so often there comes a phenom who streaks across the baseball…

Damn Yankees
IN 1954, the Washington Senators were an abominable team They…

Washington Nicknames
WHAT's in a name? If it’s a baseball team’s name, there’s…

Ty Cobb’s Splits
Ty Cobb is still remembered as one of the greatest players in…

Coming from Behind: Patterns of Scoring and Their Relation to Winning
At the annual SABR convention in 2003, in Denver, I presented…

Home-Field Advantage
In every sport and at every level, the home team wins more games…

Graphing Cumulative Rate Statistics
"No doubt some graphics do distort the underlying data, making…

1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York
Nineteen twenty-one was a remarkable baseball season, one that…

What Inspired ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’?
In the Spring of 1908 a young songwriter and vaudeville performer…

James Lanier: Ty Cobb’s Batboy
Growing up in Augusta, Georgia, James Lanier was Ty Cobb’s…

A Tall Tale of “The Brethren”
In their book The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, Bob Woodward…

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
At first I thought it was a misprint. Right in the middle of…

Modern Baseball’s Greatest-Hitting Team: The 1930 Phillies’ Opponents
What was the best-hitting team in modern (i.e,. post-1900) baseball…

Arbitrator Seitz Sets the Players Free
Introduction
The most important labor arbitration decision of…

AggPro: The Aggregate Projection System
Many different methods exist for projecting the performance of…