
The Best Postseason Ever: Wild Bill Serena’s 1947 Batting Feats
You can whiffle all you want about Reggie Jackson's 18 post-season…

A Small, Yet Momentous Gesture
Bruce Markusen's Baseball's Last Dynasty: Charlie Finley's Oakland…

Unsolved Photo Mysteries
My Mom started me on my never-ending search for the perfect…

Which Great Teams Were Just Lucky?
A team's season record is massively influenced by luck.…

The Honor Rolls of Baseball
Who deserves to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and…

Do Batters Learn During a Game?
It is common to hear batters and pitchers comment on the…

Should a 22-Game Season Sweep Have Occurred? An Examination of Season Sweeps and Near-Sweeps
After the Dodgers' win over the Pirates on August 5, 2004,…

Cumulative Home Run Frequency and the Recent Home Run Explosion
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once remarked…

In Search of Clutch Hitting
Clutch hitting is back in fashion in the baseball research…

Are Traded Players ‘Lemons’?
In 2001, economist George Akerlof won a Nobel Prize for Economics…

Early Baseball in Washington, DC: How the Washington Nationals Helped Develop America’s Game
Washington, D.C., is primarily known today as the home of our…

I Don’t Care If I Ever Get Back: Marathons Lasting Six or More Hours
For more than 40 years I have exhaustively researched marathon…

Has Greg Maddux Employed the ‘Bagwell Gambit’ in His Career?
In a Newsweek article George Will called Greg Maddux "the most…

Normalized Winning Percentage, Revisited
In the 1996 Baseball Research Journal, I presented something…

Underestimating the Fog
This article was originally published in SABR's Baseball Research…

Introduction: Road Trips: SABR Convention Journal Articles
SABR had its first convention, if it can be described as that,…

The Cincinnati Base Hit
This article was originally published in “Baseball in the Buckeye…

Brewery Jack Taylor: Big Talent, Big Problem
This article was originally published in “Baseball in the Buckeye…

A Cincy Legend: A Narrative of Bumpus Jones’ Baseball Career
This article was originally published in “Baseball in the Buckeye…

Anything Can Happen in Wrigley Field
This article was originally published in “Baseball in Chicago,”…

Ed Reulbach’s Shutout Doubleheader
This article was originally published in “Baseball in Chicago,”…

Larrupin’ Lou Gehrig Bids the Fans Adieu in Kansas City
This article was originally published in “Unions to Royals:…

And the Last Shall Be First: Louisville Club Zooms From Cellar To Pennant in 1890
This article was originally published in “A Celebration of…

Slow Tragedy: The Saga of Pete Browning
This article was originally published in “A Celebration of…