Left Out: Handedness and the Hall of Fame
Handedness historically has been of importance to how the game…
Shifting Expectations: An In-Depth Overview Of Players’ Approaches To The Shift Based On Batted-Ball Events
One of the hottest and most polarizing topics in baseball today…
Why OPS Works
Pete Palmer, the inventor of OPS (on-base plus slugging), explains…
Rating Baseball Agencies: Who is Delivering the Goods?
In the summer of 2018 Washington Post reporter Jorge Castillo…
Hot Streaks, Screaming Grounders, and War: Conceptual Metaphors in Baseball
Until my freshman year of college, the only books I’d read…
WAA vs. WAR: Which is the Better Measure for Overall Performance in MLB, Wins Above Average or Wins Above Replacement?
Among the many statistical analyses of baseball that have…
Community, Defection, and equipo Cuba: Baseball under Fidel Castro, 1959–93
Baseball is called America’s national pastime, but in Cuba…
Baseball Archeology in Cuba: A Trip to Güines
Visiting Cuba is like tripping in a time machine. We’re not…
Testing an RPI Ranking System for Canadian University Baseball
University baseball in Canada currently lacks a true national…
Time Between Pitches: Cause of Long Games?
A major topic for MLB and the baseball press continues to be…
Setting the Record Straight on Major League Team Nicknames
Of the major league teams that trace their history before 1960,…
Did MLB Exist Before the Year 2000?
Writers often refer to “MLB” as though it were something…
Baseball and the Great Movie Comedians
While Charlie Chaplin went into the boxing ring in City Lights…
‘Our Lady Reporter’: Introducing Some Women Baseball Writers, 1900–30
In 1763, literary critic Dr. Samuel Johnson said about women…
Carl Lundgren: The Cubs’ Cold-Weather King
All the poetry and folklore of "Tinker to Evers to Chance" notwithstanding,…
Beyond the Miracle: The Mets of the Early 1970s
The year 1969 was eventful. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz…
Philadelphia in the 1882 League Alliance
Histories of the Philadelphia Phillies portray the club’s admission…