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Rickwood Field Adds to Its Legacy as the Major Leagues Return to Alabama
The oldest professional baseball park in the United States—Rickwood…
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Jimmie Foxx: Baseball’s ‘Forgotten’ Super Slugger
Long before Aaron Judge broke the single-season American…
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Mary Dobkin: Baltimore’s Grande Dame of Baseball
Mary Dobkin at age 77, while speaking to the press about…
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Major and Minor League Occupancy at Cleveland’s League Park, 1914–15
League Park as seen from the air. Note the large bleacher…
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The Ill-Fated Dodgers and Indians World Baseball Tour of 1952
Abe Saperstein created the Harlem Globetrotters and is widely…
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‘Death to Flying Things’: The Life and Times of a Spurious Nickname
“Death to Flying Things” is one of the all-time great baseball…
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Shining Light on the Smiling Stan Hack Mirror: A Bill Veeck Gamesmanship Ploy—Was It Real or Mythical?
Stan Hack, who spent his entire big-league career (1932 –47)…
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Teenage Umpires of the Nineteenth Century
Baseball tradition before the Civil War favored the selection…
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The International Association of 1877–80
Organized professional baseball began in the 1870s with three…
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The Union Association War of 1884
The Union Association of 1884 can seem puzzling. It is classified…
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An Infield Hit Model From the 2023 MLB Season: ‘Hit ‘Em Where They Ain’t’
INTRODUCTION
Major league baseball teams routinely use analytics…
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Plummeting Batting Averages Are Due to Far More Than Infield Shifting, Part One: Fielding and Batting Strategy
In 2022, the Lords of Baseball decreed that the full infield…
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Going Beyond the Baseball Adage ‘One Game at a Time’: A Geek’s Peek at Streaks
Professional baseball players and coaches shrug off questions…
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Jews and Baseball: History and Demographics (Part One)
Sandy Koufax (SABR-Rucker Archive)
American Jews have…
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Henry Chadwick Award: Larry Gerlach
Growing up in Lincoln, Nebraska, LARRY GERLACH remembers watching…
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Henry Chadwick Award: Leslie Heaphy
Around 1988, University of Toledo graduate student LESLIE A.…
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Henry Chadwick Award: Sarah Langs
It was the night of November 2, 2016. In the city of Chicago…
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Editor’s Note: Spring 2024 Baseball Research Journal
We live in the best of times and the worst of times for…