Leg Men: Career Pinch-Runners in Major-League Baseball

In 1974, the Oakland Athletics signed track star Herb Washington…

‘When Fans Wanted to Rock, the Baseball Stopped’: Sports, Promotions, and the Demolition of Disco on Chicago’s South Side

While the winter chill still held Chicago in its grip, longtime…

Offensive Strategy and Efficiency in the United States and Dominican Republic

According to a well-known baseball saying in the Dominican Republic,…

Baby Birds Versus Bronx Bombers: No Mismatch After All!

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: A Washington Fan’s Fantasy

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…

The Oriole Way: The Founding Fathers

Major League Baseball returned to Baltimore on April 15, 1954,…

Remembering the Golden Age of Baseball

For as long as I can remember I have had an unquenchable passion…

The 100 Top-Fielding MLB Pitchers, circa 1900–2008

How important is the subject of pitchers’ fielding? Just ask…

Greatest Catchers: A Composite Ranking Methodology

Who is the greatest catcher to have ever played in the major…

Comebacks and Fisticuffs: The Eastern Shore Baseball League, 1922–1949

In 1922, the New York Yankees played the New York Giants in the…

Walter ‘Peck’ Lerian, 1928-29 Philadelphia Phillies

Curt Flood, Gene Conley, and Danny Ainge had nothing on Baltimore…

Mickey Grasso: The Catcher Was a POW

He loved kids and despised umpires. Since he was a genuinely…

A Ground-Zero Start to Building a Baseball Team and Ballpark

Many SABR members have dreamed of starting up and running a baseball…

Clark Griffith

As the owner of the Washington Senators, Clark C. Griffith occasionally…

Ted Williams

In 1969, his first season as manager of the Washington Senators,…

Washington Homers

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A Brief History of the Washington Stars

Have you ever wondered why Willie McCovey and ten other Padres…

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…

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