
Connie Mack’s Income
For most of the first 100 years of major league baseball, owning…

Remembering the 1951 Hazard Bombers
In 1951, a group of young minor league ballplayers from southeastern…

The Sultan of Swag: Babe Ruth as a Financial Investment
In Babe Ruth's first year with the Yankees in 1920, he hit…

Babe Ruth, Brooklyn Dodgers Coach
Of all the facets of Babe Ruth’s long and distinguished career,…

The Colonel and Hug: The Odd Couple … Not Really
Although on the surface Miller Huggins and Jacob Ruppert seemed…

Larry Twitchell’s Big Day
Larry Twitchell's greatest day in baseball came on August 15,…

The Enigma of Hilda Chester
Hilda Chester and her famous cowbell (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL…

Casey at the Stat
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:1
The…

Harry & Larry
Sometimes research leads us to answers we never intended to find.…

Pick Wisely
Television broadcasts of the Little League World Series typically…

Jury Nullification and the Not Guilty Verdicts in the Black Sox Case
This article was selected as a winner of the 2016 McFarland-SABR…

The New York Mets in Popular Culture
When the nascent New York Mets set out to fill the National League…

The First Televised Baseball Interview
Publicity photo issued by Philco. Connie Mack (center) and…

Measuring Franchise Success in the Postseason
Baseball's postseason has existed for over 110 years, enough…

Examining Stolen Base Trends by Decade from the Deadball Era through the 1970s
This article was honored with a SABR Analytics Conference Research…

“That Record Will Never Be Broken!”: How Many Unbreakable Records Are There?
Baseball aficionados often argue that certain records will never…

Switch-Hit Home Runs 1920-60
Switch-hitting dates back to the earliest days of the game, when…

How Did That Guy Do That?
It’s the kind of game that makes you say, “How did that guy…