Eyeball to Eyeball, Bellybutton to Bellybutton: Inside The Dodger Way of Scouting
A look at the Dodger way of scouting, tracing its roots back to Branch Rickey.
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A look at the Dodger way of scouting, tracing its roots back to Branch Rickey.
A Kekionga Base Ball Club collectible card from 1871. (SABR-Rucker Archive) The National Association of Professional Baseball players was formed in 1871 in New York City leading to the first all-professional baseball organization. While many of the founding clubs were no surprise, one addition might raise eyebrows: the Kekiongas of Fort Wayne. Compared to […]
In the latest edition of an ongoing SABR project, researchers tabulated a banner year for Willie Wells, Rube Foster, and other Negro-league immortals. LATIN AMERICANS called Willie Wells “Diablo”- the Devil. In 1930 he showed why. The little shortstop hit .404 to lead the western clubs in hitting. (Bill Terry led the white majors […]
1962 Detroit Tigers Goodwill Tour program (Robert Fitts Collection) For the Detroit Tigers 1962 was a year to forget. They finished the season in fourth place, 10½ games behind the pennant-winning Yankees, with 16 fewer wins than the second-place 1961 Detroit club. The best the Tigers could muster in 1962 was second spot in […]
“We must look for some legislation before long in regard to the pitcher. We are all willing to concede that he is a plucky, determined Base Ball character, and the very fact that he is so persistent and combative makes it necessary now and then to subordinate him a little to the other men who […]
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 […]
The past two decades have seen some season records broken in several baseball categories which had been in the books for a long time. Take, for example, home runs, stolen bases, and strikeouts by pitchers. One record, however, which has stood the test of time is the 16 shutouts hurled by Grover Alexander […]
Keio University with the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox on December 7, 1913. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division) INTRODUCTION On January 27, 1913, John McGraw of the National League champion New York Giants and Charles Comiskey, owner of the American League Chicago White Sox, announced their plans for a world […]
INTRODUCTION The Dodgers are playing the Yankees at Yankee Stadium in Game 7 of the 1955 World Series. The Yankees are at bat in the bottom of the sixth with men on first and second and none out. Johnny Podres has pitched masterfully during the first five innings. Yogi Berra is up and lashes a […]
What player in major league history, while participating in no more than half his team’s scheduled games, posted the most outstanding overall hitting performance?
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