Category Archive: Articles.2016-BRJ45-2

The Historical Evolution of the Designated Hitter Rule

David Ortiz retired at the end of the 2016 season with 10,091…

Discrepancy in an All-Time MLB Record: Billy Hamilton’s 1894 Runs Scored

QUESTION: Who holds the all-time MLB record for most runs scored…

The Stallings Platoon: The 1913 Prequel

Johnny Evers (left) on the Braves in 1914 with his manager,…

The .700 Club: Blessedly Good Baseball

The New York Yankees have finished with a .700 winning percentage…

Catcher Duke Farrell’s Record Performance: Game Notes from May 11, 1897

  Duke Farrell as depicted with the Chicago White…

The Young and the Restless: George Wright, 1865–68

George Wright at the peak of his baseball career, with the…

Chief Bender: A Marksman at the Traps and on the Mound

A circa 1912 portrait of Chief Bender probably taken for advertising…

The International Girls Baseball League

Probably almost everyone has heard of the All-American Girls…

Organized Baseball’s Night Birth

The first night game in the history of Organized Baseball took…

A Question of Character: George Davis and the Flora Campbell Affair

George Davis, one of the turn of the century's finest ballplayers,…

Baseball Player Won-Lost Records: The Ultimate Baseball Statistic

In the Fall 2012 Baseball Research Journal, I authored an article…
Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2016