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Home Runs: More Influential Than Ever

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The King is Dead

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Bill Doak’s Three ‘No-Hitters’

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Baseball’s Most Unbreakable Records: Polled from SABR’s Records Committee

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Best of Times, Worst of Times: Superlative & Dismal Ten-Year Team Performances

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Identifying 19th-Century Player Dick Higham … Perhaps!

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Early RBI Leaders in the International League

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Harry Wright: The Most Important Baseball Figure of the 19th Century?

In 1999 the Society for American Baseball Research completed…

Harry Wright

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Batting Average by Count and Pitch Type

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The Evolution of World Series Scheduling

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Lou vs. Babe in Real Life and in Pride of the Yankees

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56-Game Hitting Streaks Revisited

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John McGraw Comes to New York: The 1902 Giants

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From a Researcher’s Notebook (2002)

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Baseball’s Greatest Hero: Joe Pinder

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Hack Wilson’s 191st RBI: A Persistent Itch Finally Scratched

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Let Me Count the Ways: High-Scoring Games May Have Unique Line Scores

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A Tale of Two Hornsbys: A Sweetheart Back Home

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Remembering Carl Mays

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Winning Pitcher — Luebbers: Starting Pitchers’ Wins of Less Than Five Innings

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Loserville’s Crowded Dead Heat

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Cliff Kachline: Baseball Man and SABR Pioneer

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