Spring 2026 Baseball Research Journal
- Seven States Get Their Major League Call-Up
John Shorey and Kevin Warneke - The ‘Bound Game’ versus the ‘Fly Game’: A Far-Reaching Controversy at Organized Baseball’s Beginnings
Woody Eckard, PhD - Before the Color Line: The Rondout Seniors, the Excelsior Club, and Interracial Baseball in 1867
Daniel Torres - Defying Convention: Left-Handed Double Play Combinations
Larry DeFillipo - A Sam Payne Toast: The Diminutive Civil War Vet Who Became Phillies Groundskeeper and One of Their Biggest Personalities
Kenny Ayres - On the Association of Umpire Performance with Age and Experience in MLB
Dale Zimmerman, Chenyang Li, and Riley Post - Beyond the Ninth: Exploring Alternative Extra Inning Rules in College and MLB Baseball
David C. Hyland, Rick Ahlf, and Forrest Allen - Babe Ruth’s Anomalous 1929 Season: Why Did His Bases on Balls Plummet?
Herm Krabbenhoft and Michael Haupert - Did MLB’s Clean Ball Policy Fuel the Hitting and Scoring Surge of the 1920s?
David J. Gordon - The Influence of Swing Machines on Batted Ball Exit Velocity in MLB
Ryan Marra - Women in Banana Ball, 2022–2025
Cecilia M. Tan - Editor’s Note: Spring 2026 Baseball Research Journal
Liz Roscher - Appendix: Babe Ruth’s Anomalous 1929 Season: Why Did His Bases on Balls Plummet?
Herm Krabbenhoft and Michael Haupert - How William “Big Chief” Watkins Began his Career as a Japanese: Early Native American and Japanese Baseball Interaction
Robert K. Fitts - Altjematimgeol: Translating the Spalding Rules of Baseball into the Mi’kmaq Language
Colin Howell