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…

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…

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…

Baseball in Providence: Line Drives, Then and Now

This article was originally published in the 1984 SABR convention…

Twice Champions: The 1923-24 Santa Clara Leopardos

This article was originally published in “From McGillicuddy…

A Half-Century of Springs: Vero Beach and the Dodgers

This article was originally published in “From McGillicuddy…

Into Thin Air: What’s All the Fuss About Coors Field?

This article was originally published in “Above the Fruited…

Imaginary Baseball in the Rockies: Ken Burns, Lewis and Clark, and the Nez Percé

This article was originally published in “Above the Fruited…
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