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Paper Tigers: How a Player Strike Put a Team of ‘Misfits’ on a Major League Field for a Day
One of the most unusual baseball games in American League…
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Instant Relief: First-Batter Triple Plays
R—O—L—A—I—D—S. The answer in the classic ad:…
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Celebrating the Nons: Many ‘Unofficial’ No-Hitters More Fascinating than the ‘Real’ Ones
As we are told by the good-hair talking heads on 24-hour…
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The Death and Rebirth of the Home Team Batting First
According to conventional baseball wisdom, the home team…
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Strategic Pitch Location: The Role of Two-Pitch Sequences in Pitching Success
On the surface, baseball does not appear overly complex.…
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Standardized Peak WAR (SPW): A Fair Standard for Historical Comparison of Peak Value
When judging the greatness of a baseball player’s career…
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The Relationship Between WAR and the Selection of Annual Performance-Based Awards
It has been over 20 years since Baseball Prospectus developed…
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Trades from Hell: A Tale of Two Cities
The major league baseball clubs of Cleveland and…
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Quantifying the Effect of Offseason Contract Extensions on Short-Term Player Performance
Over the past generation, sabermetricians have expended a…
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The 1877 National League’s Two Cincinnati Clubs: Were They In or Out, and Why the Confusion?
In 1877 the National League began the season on April 30…
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A Stepping Stone to the Majors: The Olympic Base Ball Club of Paterson, 1874-76
As major league baseball grew throughout the late nineteenth…
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The Invention of the Baseball Glove: The Case for the Forgotten 1901 Web-Pocketed Glove
It is quite a natural thing to ask, “When was the baseball…
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Special Excerpt: The Cool of the Evening
Excerpted from The Cool of the Evening by Paula Kurman, to…
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Special Excerpt: ‘We Were the Only Girls to Play at Yankee Stadium’
This excerpt is from the recent SABR book, Yankee Stadium…
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Henry Chadwick Award: Steve Gietschier
These are the qualifications for the Henry Chadwick Award:…
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Henry Chadwick Award: Mark Rucker
From daguerreotypes to stereo views to modern wire photos,…
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Henry Chadwick Award: Robert Whiting
Robert “Bob” Whiting was born in 1942 in Long Branch, New…
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Editor’s Note: Spring 2023 Baseball Research Journal
I think one of the things that intrigues us endlessly…
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My Six Decades with the Yankees
This excerpt is from the SABR book, Yankee Stadium 1923-2008:…