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The Historical Evolution of the Designated Hitter Rule
David Ortiz retired at the end of the 2016 season with 10,091…
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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…
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The Stallings Platoon: The 1913 Prequel
Johnny Evers (left) on the Braves in 1914 with his manager,…
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The .700 Club: Blessedly Good Baseball
The New York Yankees have finished with a .700 winning percentage…
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Catcher Duke Farrell’s Record Performance: Game Notes from May 11, 1897
Duke Farrell as depicted with the Chicago White…
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The Young and the Restless: George Wright, 1865–68
George Wright at the peak of his baseball career, with the…
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Chief Bender: A Marksman at the Traps and on the Mound
A circa 1912 portrait of Chief Bender probably taken for advertising…
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The International Girls Baseball League
Probably almost everyone has heard of the All-American Girls…
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Organized Baseball’s Night Birth
The first night game in the history of Organized Baseball took…
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A Question of Character: George Davis and the Flora Campbell Affair
George Davis, one of the turn of the century's finest ballplayers,…
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The Show Girl and the Shortstop: The Strange Saga of Violet Popovich and Her Shooting of Cub Billy Jurges
This article was selected as the winner of the 2017 McFarland-SABR…
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The Great American Pastime (1956): Hollywood, Little League, and the Post-World War II Consensus
Advertising billed The Great American Pastime as a comedy…
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Baseball Player Won-Lost Records: The Ultimate Baseball Statistic
In the Fall 2012 Baseball Research Journal, I authored an article…
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