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The National League and the American Association entered their respective winter meetings — hereafter called the annual meetings1 — buoyed by the growing popularity and profits of the past 1886 season.2 The owners recognized that to further expand the popularity of baseball and, with the consequent rise in attendance, increase their profits, they had to […]

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

Introduction The 1884 professional baseball season demonstrated the nationwide baseball boom then underway.1 It was an exciting time to be a lover of baseball. The 1883 season concluded with most professional clubs in acceptable financial condition, with plans for higher salaries and improved baseball grounds for 1884. Like 1882, the 1884 season offered new associations, […]

This interview by Ron Anderson was originally published in SABR’s “Can He Play? A Look at Baseball Scouts and Their Profession” (2011), edited by Jim Sandoval and Bill Nowlin. Interviews were conducted on October 12, 2006 and March 3, 2007. RA: When we talked before you had mentioned that when you first discovered Hank Aaron […]

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 […]

Appendix for Herm Krabbenhoft’s research on Babe Ruth’s RBI record.

Here are the final SABR Defensive Index™ rankings for the 2016 season among positional qualifiers for the Rawlings Gold Glove Award. For the fourth consecutive season, the SDI was 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 […]

Here are the SABR Defensive Index™ rankings through games of July 9, 2017. For the fifth 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 full SABR Defensive Index™ rankings, through games of July 12, 2015. Scroll down to see AL and NL overall leaders, or click a link below to see SDI leaders as ranked by position: AL:  P   C   1B   2B   3B   SS   LF   CF   RF  NL:  P   […]

Here are the full SABR Defensive Index™ rankings, through games of September 13, 2015. Scroll down to see AL and NL overall leaders, or click a link below to see SDI leaders as ranked by position: AL:  P   C   1B   2B   3B   SS   LF   CF   RF  NL:  P   […]