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…
Lawrence Ritter, standing, looks on as Lee Lowenfish, left, interviews Red Barber at Polk Award ceremonies, Long Island University, circa 1985. A shy man, Ritter summoned the courage to call retired players and discovered that most of them were eager to tell their stories.

Henry Chadwick Award: Lawrence S. Ritter

From the moment of its publication in 1966, The Glory of Their…
Ty Cobb (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

The Georgia Peach: Stumped by the Storyteller

This article was selected for inclusion in SABR 50 at 50: The…

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…

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