George H. Lawson: The Rogue Who Tried to Reform Baseball
George H. Lawson (1864–1927), promoter of various baseball…
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: 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…
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…
Hitting Streaks Don’t Obey Your Rules: Evidence That Hitting Streaks Aren’t Just By-Products of Random Variation
Professional athletes naturally experience hot and cold streaks.…
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…
The Deaf and the Origin of Hand Signals in Baseball
Dummy Hoy taught his teammates sign language, which they began…
British Baseball: How a Curious Version of the Game Survives in Parts of England and Wales
A young man anxiously takes grip of a heavily taped bat that…
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…
The Authorized Correction of Errors in Runs Scored in the Official Records (1945–2007) for Detroit Tigers Players
The most important statistic for a baseball team is wins…
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…