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
On May 11, 1897, Washington Senators catcher Duke Farrell set…
The Young and the Restless: George Wright, 1865–68
From 1865 through 1868, Hall of Famer George Wright played for…
Chief Bender: A Marksman at the Traps and on the Mound
Charles Albert "Chief" Bender is a baseball Hall of Famer, but…
The International Girls Baseball League
During the winter of 1952-1953, the International Girls Baseball…
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
Hall of Famer George Davis was, undoutedly, one of the finest…
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…
The Great American Pastime (1956): Hollywood, Little League, and the Post-World War II Consensus
Following the Second World War, the baseball genre film enjoyed…
Baseball Player Won-Lost Records: The Ultimate Baseball Statistic
In the Fall 2012 Baseball Research Journal, I authored an article…