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There are many definitions of “colorful,” but members of the Society for American Baseball Research came to the conclusion that the three most colorful baseball performers of the last 100 years were Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, and Casey Stengel Although more than 100 other players, managers, coaches, and umpires received votes, these three finished well […]

The Society launched a research project in 1976 to gather information about — what is now a rather rare baseball occurrence — the inside-the-park home run (IPH). Some of the questions raised at the outset of this project v re rather basic in nature. How many inside-the-park homers are being hit at the present time […]