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Hothead: How the Oscar Charleston Myth Began
Oscar Charleston is shown here in the uniform of the Santa…
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‘Little League Home Runs’ in MLB History: The Denouement
At the SABR 45 convention held in Chicago in 2015, I presented…
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Marvin Miller and the Birth of the MLBPA
“The unionization of professional athletes has been the most…
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The ‘Strike’ Against Jackie Robinson: Truth or Myth?
This article was honored as a 2018 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research…
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More Than Ballplayers: Baseball Players and Pursuit of the American Dream in the 1880s
This essay is intended as an exploratory survey of baseball players…
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A Pitching Conundrum: Tim Keefe and Old Hoss Radbourne
In the 1912 season Rube Marquard, the left-handed pitcher of…
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The Effect of Stride Length on Pitched Ball Velocity
One philosophy of pitching holds that pushing off the rubber…
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Calculating Skill and Luck in Major League Baseball
One of my favorite topics is the contributions of skill and luck…
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The Chances of a Drafted Baseball Player Making the Major Leagues: A Quantitative Study
In June of each year, Major League Baseball conducts its amateur…
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Doubleheaders with More Than Two Teams
A modern fan goes to the ballpark to see two teams battle each…
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The Many Faces of Happy Felton
Happy Felton, an all-around entertainer of a long-gone era, aggressively…
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With a Deliberate Attempt to Deceive: Correcting a Quotation Misattributed to Charles Eliot, President of Harvard
"Well, this year I'm told the team did well because one pitcher…
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The Path to the Sugar Mill or the Path to Millions: MLB Baseball Academies’ Effect on the Dominican Republic
For many Dominican children, a future in the sugar cane fields,…
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