![Editors and writers began calling for an annual major-league All-Star Game (actually an all-star series) as early as 1914.](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Hildebrandt_RASG_Fig1_Baseball_Mag_Cover_1916-03-495x400.jpg)
The Retroactive All-Star Game Project
It’s the top of the 10th inning, and there is one out in this…
![Yankees catcher is said to have intentionally dropped the third strike three times in one game.](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MunsonThurman-NBHOF-454x400.png)
The Dropped Third Strike: The Life and Times of a Rule
6.05 A batter is out when— ... (b) A third strike…
![Harvey Dorfman and Karl Kuehl's 1989 book has been widely read by players in the major leagues.](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Dorfman-mental_game_of_baseball-495x400.jpg)
The Work of Harvey Dorfman: A Professional Baseball Mental Training Consultant
The importance of psychology in the development of baseball players…
![Braves shortstop signed a seven-year, $58 million contract with less than two years of major league experience.](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SimmonsAndrelton-366x400.png)
First-Generation Player Contracts: An MLB Success Story?
Like most businesses, major league baseball (MLB) owners strive…
![Umpire could be considered the first major league umpire to use replay, when he used the dugout camera to rule on a play on May 31, 1999, at Pro Player Stadium.](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PulliFrank-NBHOF-381x400.jpg)
Reviewing Instant Replay: Observations and Implications from Replay’s Inaugural Season
The 2014 baseball season’s adoption of expanded instant replay…
![Chicago Cubs infielder was thought for many years to have won the 1912 NL Triple Crown. (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ZimmermanHeinie-1912-LOC-Bain-50291v-457x400.png)
Seeking Resolution of the Discrepancy for the 1912 NL Triple Crown
For many years, according to several prestigious sources, Heinie…
![](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Figure1-Horlbeck-Louder-Bressel-Spring2015-BRJ-495x379.png)
Association Between Pelvic Motion and Hand Velocity in College-Aged Baseball Pitchers: A Preliminary Study
Baseball pitching is an intricate athletic skill requiring a…
![Former Nebraska State League president umpired the September 13, 1915, contest between his fellow inmates at Leavenworth Prison and the Kansas City Packers when Federal League umpires missed their train.](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/FeltAlbert.png)
Pros vs. Cons: Federal Leaguers versus Federal Prisoners at Leavenworth
On an 89-degree September 13, 1915, the Kansas City Packers became…
![Dazzy Vance (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/VanceDazzy-NBHOF.png)
Dazzling Dazzy Vance in the “K-Zone”
Walter Johnson. Lefty Grove. Bob Feller. Sandy Koufax. Nolan…
![His iconic homer in the 1975 World Series serves as a Boston cultural touchstone in the film](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Fisk-Carlton-HS_NBL-391x400.jpg)
More Baseball in Non-Baseball Films
Back in the mid-1990s, I published Great Baseball Films (Citadel…
![whose pride in Chicago ultimately led to the formation of the National League, proclaimed that he would rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/HulbertWilliam-NBHOF.png)
William Hulbert and the Birth of the National League
In 1916, former National League President Abraham G. Mills said…
![First baseman and manager of the American Association St. Paul Saints 1902–05, helming two pennant winners. He was soon embroiled in a scam that involved him acting as a front for club owner George Lennon.](https://sabrweb.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/KelleyMichael.png)
Michael Kelley’s 1906-08 Woes with Organized Baseball
Michael Kelley played only briefly in one major league season.…