George H. Lawson: The Rogue Who Tried to Reform Baseball

George H. Lawson (1864–1927), promoter of various baseball…
Lee Meadows (TRADING CARD DB)

Major-League Players Who Wore Glasses

You can’t hit it if you can’t see it. Success in baseball…

George Sisler: A Close Look at Vision Problems that Derailed Him

There is no question that, when a hitter takes stock of his prize…

National Cartwright Day and the First Televised Major-League Game

On Saturday, August 26, 1939, the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati…
Roland Hemond (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Roland Hemond: If You Can’t Take Part in a Sport, Be One Anyway, Will You?

Roland Hemond has made lasting and unprecedented contributions…

Educated Yelling: The Portrait of a Heckler

Creative heckling is one of the more interesting features of…
Before achieving fame as a leading literary voice of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac aspired to be a sportswriter and already as a teenager had created a highly detailed imagi- nary baseball universe. (COURTESY OF THE ALLEN GINSBERG ESTATE)

Jack Kerouac: The Beat of Fantasy Baseball

Before achieving fame as a leading literary voice of the Beat…

Mapping the Fog: A Response to “Clutch Hitting and the Cramer Test”

1. My Model In issue number 33 of The Baseball Research Journal,…

Clutch Hitting and the Cramer Test

Bill James recently asserted that Dick Cramer’s famous 1977…

Response to “Mapping the Fog”

In a famous clutch-hitting study in 1977, Dick Cramer took 122…

Clutch Hitting Revisited

Do clutch hitters exist? More precisely, are there any batters…

A Pitcher Shows His Age: The Case Study of Ace Winger

Ace Winger broke into the big leagues at the tender age of 21…
William Hoy (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

The Deaf and the Origin of Hand Signals in Baseball

Dummy Hoy taught his teammates sign language, which they began…

Henry Chadwick: The ‘Father of Baseball’ was a Sportswriter

In the fall of 1856, a New York Times cricket journalist spotted…

The Longest Streaks of Consecutive Games in Which a Detroit Tiger Has Scored a Run

In another article, I describe my findings on the accuracy…

Where Have You Gone, Carl Yastrzemski? A Statistical Analysis of the Triple Crown

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks…

The OBP Triple Crown

It’s an article of faith these days that batting average is…

A Farewell to Arms: The Major Leagues in 1968 and the Transition to a New Modern Era

By any measure 1968 was a year of upheaval. Assassinations, riots,…

Bullpen Cy Young Awards: When and Why Do Relievers Win It?

Major League Baseball marked the fiftieth anniversary of the…

Analyzing Grand Old Images: A Close Look at Two Photos from the Deadball Era

Joe Wallace’s Grand Old Game: 365 Days of Baseball is a cleverly…

The 1924 Junior World Series: The St. Paul Saints’ Magnificent Comeback

By 1920 the idea of matching two high-minor-league teams in a…