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SABR’s Goose Goslin Chapter had a meeting on Saturday, September 28, 2019, at the Cherry Hill Public Library. Our guest speaker was Dr. Bruce Kuklick, who authored the book, To Every Thing A Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia 1909-1976. He spoke to us about The history of Shibe park and he shared copies of […]

Forty SABR members and friends attended a special gathering co-organized by the Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter and Connie Mack/Philadelphia Chapter on Saturday, August 24, 2019, at Frawley Stadium during Negro Leagues History Day in Wilmington, Delaware. We socialized, drank, ate and watched a Single-A game twixt the Wilmington Blue Rocks and the Down East Wood […]

The two-column advertisement in the New York Times last summer read: “Employment wanted by Baseball Player / Earl Williams / 1971 National League Rookie of the Year/ 8 yrs. in major leagues as catcher/ 1B / 138 hr’s-457 rbi’s’/ SALARY: Very Reasonable/ Excellent Health-No Police Record / HAVE BAT-WILL TRAVEL-WILL HUSTLE / Reply to: 37 […]

The 46th National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues winter meeting took place in Miami during the first days of December 1947. The convention was held at the McAllister Hotel, located on the corner of East Flagler Street and Biscayne Boulevard in the heart of downtown. Upon its completion a quarter century earlier, the ten-story “ultra-modern […]

It’s a basic rule that’s familiar to all baseball fans: A batter, when struck by a pitched ball, shall be awarded first base. While some people may dismiss the hit-by-pitch as a relatively minor aspect of the game, a hit batsman can have significant consequences. As an extreme example, the Tommy Byrne pitch that struck […]

Fans of baseball history are well aware that it was the Cincinnati Reds who defeated the scandal-ridden Chicago White Sox in the 1919 World Series. More recent fans acclaim the greatness of Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine of the 1970s. However, few remember Cincinnati’s other outstanding team, the back-to-back pennant winners of 1939- 1940. The anonymity […]

Few pieces published in a SABR journal have had a greater impact than “A Baseball Myth Exploded: The Truth About Bill Veeck and the ’43 Phillies,” the cover story in the 1998 edition of The National Pastime.1 The article, authored by David Jordan, Larry Gerlach, and John Rossi, challenged legendary baseball executive Bill Veeck’s claim […]

Kirk Gibson of the Detroit Tigers and Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox led baseball’s free-agent class going into the 1985 Winter Meetings.1 Kansas City Royals GM John Schuerholz was so interested in slotting Gibson into the team’s cleanup spot that he asked a team representative to host him on a hunting trip to […]

The odds on the Boston Red Sox winning the 1967 American League pennant were 100-1 at the beginning of the season. But when they completed the Impossible Dream, it was “Pandemonium on the field!”The Boston Red Sox embarked on their 1967 season with a five-man rotation that had collectively won only 25 major league games […]

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 […]