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SABR Chartered Community announces its managers of the year for 2010.

Twenty-one members of the Philadelphia/Connie Mack Chapter gathered on Saturday, November 14, 2015, at the City Institute Library in Rittenhouse Square in Center City Philadelphia for their first Hot Stove of the 2015 Offseason. The chapter offered free coffee to begin the event. We opened with a lengthy discussion on the World Series and season […]

The record for the largest number of participants ejected from one game is 17. The game was at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium on August 12, 1984. The ejections were all made by home-plate umpire Steve Rippley, and one of the men he threw out was his current boss, Joe Torre. In an early 2017 interview, Rippley […]

Curt Flood, Gene Conley, and Danny Ainge had nothing on Baltimore native Peck Lerian, who challenged the reserve clause and earned fame on both the basketball court and the baseball diamond. Showing great promise as the leading member of the Philadelphia Phillies’ young receiving corps at the close of the 1920s, he also stood out […]

Opening Day ceremonies at the Tokyo Dome on March 25, 2008. (Courtesy of Bill Nowlin)   The third in a series of five Major League Baseball visits to Japan opening the regular season featured the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics in March 2008. Earlier series had been in 2000 with the New York Mets […]

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 […]

    A big, gruff-voiced, light-skinned Texan, Louis Loftin Santop was the  first of the great black sluggers, the head of a dynasty that would stretch  through John Beckwith, Mule Suttles, Turkey Stearnes, Josh Gibson, Willie Mays, Dick Allen, and right down to Hank Aaron himself.     Santop, who started hitting Texas-size blasts before most […]

Dave Barnhill. He was small, only weighing 130 pounds “when it snowed on him.” But on the mound he stood tall, Leon Day, a six-time all star pitcher for the Newark Eagles and a contemporary of Barnhill’s, marvels, “That’s what I couldn’t understand about him. He was so small, but he could throw that ball […]

The role of umpires in establishing public acceptance of organized baseball in its early years has been given little attention. This is especially true of umpires in the minor leagues. If mention is made at all, it usually concerns some colorful personality with a foghorn voice or a flair for poetry rather than an acknowledgement […]

Nineteen twenty-one was a remarkable baseball season, one that signaled that a seismic shift in how the game was played was underway. Baseball was moving from low-scoring contests dominated by pitching to a power game with more hits, runs, and home runs. It was the year that New York City rose to the top of […]