Rookie Connie Mack: Washington in 1887

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Players Being ‘Clutch’ When Targeting 20 Wins

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The Little Corporation: Professional Baseball in San Francisco, 1953–1955

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Who Invented Runs Produced?

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Leon Allen Goslin: The Wild Goose of the Potomac

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Baseball Braggin’ Rights: The Five-State Series, 1922–1927

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James Vincent Jamison Jr.: Blue Ridge League President, 1916–18, 1920–30

Much more than a booster of baseball locally, V. Jamison Jr.,…

The All-Time Team of Bob Davids Chapter Natives

The geography that includes the District of Columbia, Virginia,…

The Class D Blue Ridge League: 1918, the Lost Season

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BOOKS: Robinson, Race, and Brooklyn

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A Response By Norman Macht

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The Rise and Fall of Greenlee Field

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The Quest for Dick McBride

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Bob Feller, Ace Negotiator

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Jesse Burkett: Cleveland’s Forgotten Legend

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Keeping the Federals at Bay: Cleveland in the American Association, 1914-1915

Over the first half of the twentieth century, the American Association…

‘The Kid from Cleveland’: A Celebration of the Postwar Cleveland Indians

As baseball movies go, The Kid from Cleveland is strictly second…

It Was ‘Smoky’ in Cleveland: Indians win 19-inning game in 1918

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Roger Maris and the Cleveland Indians

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