
Ripken’s Record for Consecutive Innings Played
Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2,632-consecutive-game streak is one of…

Lou Gehrig’s RBI Record: 1923–39
INTRODUCTION
In his Hall-of-Fame career, Lou Gehrig established…

Anomalies of Protested and Suspended Baseball Games
Most major league baseball games that are protested or suspended…

Beyond Player Win Average: Compiling Player Won-Lost Records
The job of a major league baseball player is to help his team…

Game Scores: Matches, Correlations, and a Possible Umpire Bias
INTRODUCTION
On Sunday July 17, 2011, the Boston Red Sox and…

Racing the Dawn: The 29-Inning Minor League Marathon
Baseball is one of the few sports not dictated by a time clock,…

The History of Baseball in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Since the formation of the National League in 1876, many cities…

Braves Field: An Imperfect History of the Perfect Ballpark
In the midst of the Deadball Era, a jewel box ballpark rose a…

The Browns get it right: Winning the World Series rematch in 1945
After the St. Louis Cardinals captured the sixth and clinching…

The Elysian Fields of Brooklyn: The Parade Ground
The dictionary defines the word “Elysian” as “something…

Durocher the Spymaster: How much did the Giants prosper from cheating in 1951?
In the summer of 1951, the New York Giants under manager Leo…

Two days in August 1971: Tom Seaver and Dave Roberts
For two days in the summer of 1971, Tom Seaver dueled with another…

Mike Piazza By the Numbers: The Hall of Fame Case
On September 12, 1992, in the fifth inning of a game between…
