Category Archive: Articles.2002-BRJ31

Babe Ruth Dethroned? Whither the Sultan of Swat?

During the first two decades of the 20th century, "inside baseball"…

Forbes Field, Hitter’s Nightmare?

Forbes Field was one of the very first classic era ballparks…

Not Quite Marching Through Georgia: Don Larsen and the Atlanta Crackers

The cover of Tim Darnell's book Southern Yankees describes the…

Preventing Base Hits: Evidence that Fielders Are More Important Than Pitchers

A most surprising discovery about baseball was reported several…

The Most Dominant Triple Crown Winner

Baseball's Triple Crown is a heroic achievement reserved…

The Best Last-Place Team Ever? 1966 Yankees Didn’t Know How to Finish Last

The 1967 Sporting News Baseball Guide reported "Many observers…

The Most Exciting World Series Games: A Mathematical Approach

In baseball there are many kinds of excitement. Seeing great…

Home Runs: More Influential Than Ever

The baseball media have made a lot of noise the past two seasons…

The King is Dead

"It is no bad thing to be a king." — Homer   On…

Bill Doak’s Three ‘No-Hitters’

There have been only a handful of major league pitchers who threw…

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

More than any other sport, baseball as we know it today…

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

Not many fans are still around who remember when the Chicago…

Identifying 19th-Century Player Dick Higham … Perhaps!

Because it seemed both helpful and important to attempt to round…

Early RBI Leaders in the International League

It is obvious that the game of baseball has changed drastically…

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

In 1999 the Society for American Baseball Research completed…

Batting Average by Count and Pitch Type

Many baseball coaches, sportswriters, and television announcers…

The Evolution of World Series Scheduling

In the early years of World Series play, game schedules were…

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

Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig formed the most feared batting twosome…

56-Game Hitting Streaks Revisited

In an article in the 1994 Baseball Research Journal, Charles…

John McGraw Comes to New York: The 1902 Giants

John McGraw was one of the most successful baseball managers…
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From a Researcher’s Notebook (2002)

DAN SWEENEY WAS A SMALL MAJOR LEAGUE PLAYER Trying to…