Category Archive: Articles.2024-BRJ53-1

Spring 2024 Baseball Research Journal

Rickwood Field Adds to Its Legacy as the Major Leagues Return to Alabama

The oldest professional baseball park in the United States—Rickwood…

Jimmie Foxx: Baseball’s ‘Forgotten’ Super Slugger

  Long before Aaron Judge broke the single-season American…

Mary Dobkin: Baltimore’s Grande Dame of Baseball

Mary Dobkin at age 77, while speaking to the press about…

Major and Minor League Occupancy at Cleveland’s League Park, 1914–15

League Park as seen from the air. Note the large bleacher…

The Ill-Fated Dodgers and Indians World Baseball Tour of 1952

Abe Saperstein created the Harlem Globetrotters and is widely…

‘Death to Flying Things’: The Life and Times of a Spurious Nickname

“Death to Flying Things” is one of the all-time great baseball…

Teenage Umpires of the Nineteenth Century

Baseball tradition before the Civil War favored the selection…

The International Association of 1877–80

Organized professional baseball began in the 1870s with three…

The Union Association War of 1884

The Union Association of 1884 can seem puzzling. It is classified…

An Infield Hit Model From the 2023 MLB Season: ‘Hit ‘Em Where They Ain’t’

INTRODUCTION Major league baseball teams routinely use analytics…

Going Beyond the Baseball Adage ‘One Game at a Time’: A Geek’s Peek at Streaks

Professional baseball players and coaches shrug off questions…
Sandy Koufax (SABR/The Rucker Archive)

Jews and Baseball: History and Demographics (Part One)

Sandy Koufax (SABR-Rucker Archive)   American Jews have…
Larry Gerlach

Henry Chadwick Award: Larry Gerlach

Growing up in Lincoln, Nebraska, LARRY GERLACH remembers watching…
Leslie Heaphy

Henry Chadwick Award: Leslie Heaphy

Around 1988, University of Toledo graduate student LESLIE A.…
Sarah Langs

Henry Chadwick Award: Sarah Langs

It was the night of November 2, 2016. In the city of Chicago…
Spring 2024 Baseball Research Journal cover image

Editor’s Note: Spring 2024 Baseball Research Journal

We live in the best of times and the worst of times for…