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Henry Chadwick Award: Bob Davids

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Henry Chadwick Award: Bill James

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Ty Cobb’s Splits

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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

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Graphing Cumulative Rate Statistics

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1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York

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James Lanier: Ty Cobb’s Batboy

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A Tall Tale of “The Brethren”

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A Tale of Two Umpires: When Al Salerno and Bill Valentine Got Thrown Out of the Game

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The Deadball Era’s Worst Pitching Staff

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Modern Baseball’s Greatest-Hitting Team: The 1930 Phillies’ Opponents

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Arbitrator Seitz Sets the Players Free

Introduction The most important labor arbitration decision of…

AggPro: The Aggregate Projection System

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Fall 2009 Baseball Research Journal

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