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Babe Ruth meets Yale baseball player George H.W. Bush in 1948. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)   George Herbert Walker Bush began the first year of his term as the 41st President of the United States of America on January 20, 1989. Then, just seventy-three days later (on April 3, 1989), he carried out […]

Hall of Fame slugger Hank Greenberg wrote, “My goal in baseball was always RBIs, to break (Lou) Gehrig’s record of 184 RBIs.” Did he come closer than he thought to doing so?

Choices … Decisions: A player has already connected for one double, one triple, and one homer in the game and needs only a simple single in his next plate appearance to achieve the cherished cycle—one of baseball’s rarest accomplishments and one that will inscribe his name permanently in the record books. If he comes through […]

For a batter or pitcher, the best—or worst—of the “Three True Outcomes” is a home run or a strikeout.1 The rates of the both home runs and strikeouts have increased substantially over the years. To illustrate, let’s compare 1949 and 2019. In the National League in 1949, 42,711 at bats resulted in 935 homers and […]

1. Introduction Rule 9.02 of the official MLB rulebook states, “Any umpire’s decision which involves judgment, such as, but not limited to, whether a batted ball is fair or foul, whether a pitch is a strike or a ball, or whether a runner is safe or out, is final. No player, manager, coach, or substitute […]

Members and guests of SABR’s Buck O’Neil/North Florida Chapter assembled on November 1, 2023, at the Florida State University Baseball Complex, Tallahassee, Florida, for a very special meeting. In attendance were: Matt Keelean, President Matt Hudson, Vice President Renee Watters. Communications Co-Director Brent Kallestad, Communications Co-Director Rick Swain, Treasurer Kent Putnam, Secretary Frank Alarcon Susan […]

Twenty members and guests of the Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter assembled on Monday, June 10, 2019, at the Sports Cafe, 3579 Pennridge Drive in Bridgeton, Missouri. Chapter treasurer Mark Stangl called the meeting to order. As always, our meeting started with everyone introducing themselves. Last month there was some discussion about the qualifications of William […]

Nineteen members and guests of the Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter gathered for its monthly meeting on Monday, August 20, 2018, at the Sports Cafe, 3579 Pennridge Drive in Bridgeton, Missouri. Chapter president Rick Zucker called the meeting to order. As is tradition at our monthly meetings, the seating is a hollow square setting and the meeting […]

On Saturday, August 26, 2017, the Bob Broeg St. Louis SABR Chapter hosted its third annual Research Conference at the Emerson Library on the campus of Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. Six speakers presented a variety of subjects, hoping to capture the Jim Rygelski Research Award bestowed by the local chapter. The award is […]

HEATHER M. O’NEILL is a Professor of Economics at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Entering her 28th year at Ursinus, all of her students know she is an active athlete and a survivor of the 1964 Phillies collapse. While still an avid Phillies fan with a place in her heart for Johnny Callison, she serves […]