Articles.2012-BRJ41-1 – Society for American Baseball Research

The Bible and the Apocrypha

Pitched from 1927-1941 and hit 38 career homers.

Pitchers Dig the Long Ball (At Least When They Are Hitting)

Hank Greenberg’s American League RBI Record

Breaking Balls with a Runner on Third: A Game Theoretical Analysis of Optimal Behavior

Are Baseball Players Superior to Umpires in Discriminating Balls to Strikes?

pitched double no-hitter for Cincinnati Reds in 1938.

Johnny Vander Meer’s Third No-Hitter

“Sparky”

Pop Kelchner, Gentleman Jake, The Giant-Killer, and the Kane Mountaineers

Catcher Anna Kimbrell, pitcher Ashley Sujkowski and infielder Sarah Gascon.

American Women Play Hardball in Venezuela: Team USA battles invisibility at home, is celebrated abroad, and faces gunfire at the Women’s World Cup

On leave from the Boston Braves, he dominated the Japanese in two games of their five-game series with the Fort Myer Colonials.

Global World Series: 1955-57

Seen here in 1913, he made four trips to North America.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Baseball

Presented with flowers before a game during the 1934 baseball tour of Japan.

Babe Ruth and Eiji Sawamura

Expos Get First Franchise No-Hitter Right Out of the Gate

One Trade, Three Teams, and Reversal of Fortune

In 1906, Cleveland player-manager was second in AL batting at .355.

1906 Cleveland Naps: Deadball Era Underachiever

Baseball Research Journal, Spring 2012 (Vol. 41, No. 1)

Spring 2012 Baseball Research Journal