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Shorty Fuller (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)   What is a catch? A player grasps the ball. At some instant the catch is completed. If the player drops the ball before this instant, a catch has not occurred. If he drops the ball after this instant, this does not change the fact of the […]

A few days after Shohei Ohtani made his major league debut on March 29, 2018, Jay Jaffe wrote, “Ohtani is doing things that haven’t been done at the major league level in nearly a century. … and not since 1919 has a player served as both a starting pitcher and a position player with any […]

Jackie Robinson slides to home plate in an attempt to avoid the tag during a game between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field on May 13, 1956. Catcher is Ray Katt. Batter is Clem Labine. It was one of the times he didn’t make it. (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME […]

What we have in this special edition of the Baseball Research Journal are four snapshots of events and personalities from the wide world of “baseball-and-the-law”: Roger Abrams on arbitration and the 1975 Andy Messersmith reserve-clause case; Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court’s 1922 decision in Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore v. National League of Professional […]

Here is supporting evidence for the correction of errors in the official RBI record of Lou Gehrig.

Members and guests of the Buck O’Neil/North Florida Chapter gathered on May 1, 2024, at The Blu Halo in Tallahassee, Florida, for their monthly meeting. In attendance were: Matt Keelean, President Rene Watters, Communications Co-Director Brent Kallestad, Communications Co-Director Rick Swain, Treasurer Kent Putnam, Secretary Frank Alarcon Franklin Billingslea Jim Crosby (guest of Brent Kallestad) […]

Members and guests of SABR’s Buck O’Neil/North Florida Chapter gathered on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at Casa Grande Margaritas & Cocina in Tallahassee, Florida, for their monthly meeting.  In attendance were: Matt Keelean, President Renee Watters, Communications Co-Director Brent Kallestad, Communications Co-Director Rick Swain, Treasurer Kent Putnam, Secretary Frank Alarcon Gar Chisenhall Fred Dunphy Ben […]

The Doug Pappas Research Award recognizes the best oral research presentation at the Annual Convention. Before 2004, it was known as the USA Today Sports Weekly Award; the name was changed to honor the late Doug Pappas. The award for the best oral research presentation was first presented at the 1990 SABR convention in Cleveland […]

Here are the SABR Defensive Index™ rankings through games of August 22, 2021. For the ninth consecutive season, the SDI will be used to help select the winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award and Rawlings Platinum Glove Award™, presented by SABR. The SABR Defensive Index accounts for approximately 25 percent of the Rawlings Gold […]

Here are the final SABR Defensive Index™ rankings for the 2021 season among positional qualifiers for the Rawlings Gold Glove Award. For the ninth consecutive season, the SDI will be used to help select the winners of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award and Rawlings Platinum Glove Award™, presented by SABR. The SABR Defensive Index accounts […]