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Here is the appendix for Pete Palmer’s article “Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing by Catchers” in the Spring 2014 Baseball Research Journal.

It’s the top of the 10th inning, and there is one out in this hotly contested All-Star Game. A runner is on third by way of the triple, another on first via the intentional walk, but now the pitcher has this batter on the ropes with a 2–2 count. The crowd is evenly split between […]

The word nickname is derived from the Old English eke name based on the verb ecan meaning to add or augment. Thus, nicknames augment given names and provide a richer and more explicit denotation. They tell us something more about a person than just the fact that he is officially James Smith. Nicknames often serve […]

This article was originally published in the 1991 SABR convention journal (New York City).   He had a chance to be Brooklyn’s first home-grown Jewish baseball hero. It was his for the taking. In the last inning of the last game of the 1950 season, Cal Abrams, from Flatbush, had the chance to win the […]

This appendix accompanies the article “Player Win Averages” written by Pete Palmer and published in the Spring 2016 Baseball Research Journal. To scroll down to pitchers, click here.   Player Win Averages-Batters Player Games PW RW Barry Bonds 2986 120.3 123.2 Henry Aaron 3298 97.2 94.6 Willie Mays 2992 95.7 87.5 Mickey Mantle 2401 92.4 […]

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 […]

Baseball is thankfully free of artificial boundaries of time which confine other sports. This freedom helps to shape the unique magical charm that is an evening at the ballpark. Fans never know whether it will be a two-hour squeaker or whether they may be enchanted until past sunrise by the first-ever wild 12-hour 46-inning slugfest. […]

By Jacob Pomrenke Baseball lost one of its most iconic figures this week, when Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, 90, died in his sleep on September 22, 2015 — the 69th anniversary of his major-league debut with the New York Yankees — at an assisted-living facility near his longtime home in Montclair, New Jersey. Berra’s […]

From SABR member Rob Fitts at RobFitts.com on December 13, 2012: Here’a a cool card that I picked up a few weeks ago — a Japanese Yogi Berra bromide from the mid 1950s. Yogi toured Japan three times.  The first came in 1953 when the Mainichi Newspaper sponsored Eddie Lopat and a team of all […]

From SABR member Steve Gietschier at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on September 30, 2015: The tiny craft were nicknamed “rocket boats,” but the young sailor who liked nothing more than reading comic books thought he heard “rocket ships” and volunteered. Who wouldn’t want to set sail in a rocket ship? Besides, Seaman Second Class Lawrence […]