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49

Damn Yankees: A Washington Fan’s Fantasy

In 1954, the Washington Senators were an abominable team. They finished the season ensconced in sixth place in the American League, with a 66–88 record. The previous year, they were a fifth-place ballclub, completing the campaign at 76–76. In 1952, they also ended up in fifth place, with a 78–76 mark. In mid-decade, Ernest Barcella, […]

Categories: Articles.2009-TNP
50

Why OPS Works

Pete Palmer, the inventor of OPS (on-base plus slugging), explains how the offensive statistic was developed and why it remains robustly in use in the 21st century.In this paper I’ll examine OPS (on-base plus slugging) and not only why I believe that the stat remains robustly in use in the twenty-first century, but how it […]

Categories: Articles.2019-BRJ48-2
51

Do Clutch Hitters Exist?

The idea that there are batters whose hits are more noteworthy for their timeliness than for their quality is probably as old as the game itself. Efforts to measure “clutch-hitting” systematically include the RBI, one of the three most universal batting statistics, and more recently, the “game-winning hit”. It is my own belief that clutch […]

Categories: Articles.1977-BRJ6
52

1917 Winter Meetings: War? What War?

Introduction and Context Now fully invested in the Great War taking place in Europe, the United States was burdened by a shift in its political and economic conditions that demanded a sharp focus on a mobilization of the nation’s armed forces.  On the home front, Americans were implored to sacrifice for the good of the […]

Categories: Articles.Winter-Meetings-1-1901-1957
53

Marvelous Murphy: Too Good to Ignore

The yardstick for enshrinement in Cooperstown is generally determined by a player’s ability to dominate a decade. Dale Murphy more than met that standard. Crippled by recurring knee problems that required mid-career surgery, Murphy retired with 398 home runs—one fewer than first-ballot inductee Al Kaline and 16 more than 2009 inductee Jim Rice. When he […]

Categories: Articles.2010-TNP
54

1975 Winter Meetings: The Threat of Free Agency and the Return of the Master Showman

In an atmosphere of uncertainty and anxiety, more than 1,400 officials, representatives, and executives of the major and minor leagues held their annual Winter Meetings in Hollywood, Florida, about a half-hour north of Miami, from December 8 to 12, 1975. Prepared to conduct business, entertain trades, and deliberate possible rule changes, many attendees wondered whether […]

Categories: Articles.Winter-Meetings-2-1958-2016
55

Who Has the Major-League Record for the Longest Consecutive-Games Run-Produced (CGRP) Streak?

In order for a baseball team to achieve its ultimate objective (winning the World Series), it must first, during the regular season, win the most games in its division (or, since 1994, have the best winning percentage among the second-place teams) and thereby proceed to postseason play. Moreover, the absolutely essential component for winning the […]

Categories: Articles.2009-BRJ38-1-Summer
56

1947 Yankees: The Yankees’ involvement with Leo Durocher’s suspension

Leo Durocher’s season-long suspension in 1947 resulted from several years of his riotous behavior. The pattern started during his playing days with the New York Yankees. “For what?” Such was Leo Durocher’s first response to the news on April 9, 1947, that Commissioner Albert “Happy” Chandler had suspended him from baseball for the 1947 season.[fn]Durocher, […]

Categories: Essays.1947-Yankees
57

More Baseball in Non-Baseball Films

Back in the mid-1990s, I published Great Baseball Films (Citadel Press), which charts the manner in which the sport has been depicted onscreen from the late 1890s to early 1990s. Twenty years ago as today, even the most obscure films with obvious baseball themes were readily accessible to researchers. However, seeking out films in which […]

Categories: Articles.2015-BRJ44-1
58

Cubic Players

When Brandon Nimmo took his position in right field on September 26, 2018, in a game at Citi Field, he was wearing his usual number nine and would bat ninth in the batting order. It seemed to me that this was an interesting confluence of facts: a player whose uniform number matches his fielding position […]

Categories: Articles.2020-BRJ49-1
59

Damn Yankees

IN 1954, the Washington Senators were an abominable team They finished the season ensconced in sixth place in the American League, with a 66—88 record. The previous year, they were a fifth-place ballclub, completing the campaign at 76—76. In 1952, they also ended up in fifth place, with a 78—76 mark. In mid-decade, Ernest Barcella, […]

Categories: Articles.2009-TNP
60

Chicago History Museum’s Baseball Photo Treasure Trove: Chicago Daily News Glass Plate Negative Collection

The Chicago History Museum houses more than 55,000 images from the Chicago Daily News photo collection — and nearly 15 percent of those are baseball-related, a fabulous resource for historical baseball images. However, not all of the CHM glass plate negatives have player IDs inscribed upon them and a significant number of those photos are […]

Categories: Expanded E-edition.2015.TNP
61

Frank Robinson and the Trade that Ignited Two(!) Dynasties

“Bad trades are a part of baseball; I mean who can forget Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas for gosh sakes.” — Annie Savoy, Bull Durham   Outside of the 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees, baseball trades do not often occupy a persistent niche in pop culture. As the Bull Durham quotation indicates, […]

Categories: Articles.2020-TNP
62

1947 Dodgers: Al Gionfriddo’s Memorable Game Six Catch

Ohhh-hooo, Doctor! Dodgers journeyman Al Gionfriddo made the catch of his life to rob Joe DiMaggio in Game Six of the 1947 World Series.In the bottom of the sixth inning of Game Six of the 1947 World Series, Al Gionfriddo replaced Eddie Miksis in left field. Normally an infielder, Miksis had gone in as a […]

Categories: Essays.1947-Dodgers
63

Pitchers Giving Up Home Runs

Records of home runs hit by batters have been a part of baseball information and statistics essentially from the beginning of the National League in 1876. It is true that this information was not of overwhelming interest to the public until the advent of Babe Ruth and the launching of the lively ball era in […]

Categories: Articles.1981-BRJ10
64

Smoky Joe Wood’s Last Interview

Author’s note: I met Joe Wood in the early 1980s after I called and said I’d like to interview him. His daughter invited me over. Joe and I spent a lot of time together, often watching Red Sox games on television and comparing players from different eras. All this was before a taped interview, which […]

Categories: Articles.2007-TNP
65

Manzanar: Family, Friends, and Desert Diamonds Behind Barbed Wire

The irony of baseball behind barbed wire was that Japanese Americans were considered enemy aliens and confined to camps during World War II. Donning a baseball uniform, however, gave them free passage to road trips.

Categories: Articles.2011.TNP
66

Major League Player Ethnicity, Participation, and Fielding Position, 1946-2018

This is a study of the relationship between major league player ethnicity and both overall participation and fielding position — from 1947, Jackie Robinson’s debut year, to 2018.1 I use the term “ethnicity” as an umbrella term encompassing the concept of “race” because the presence of Hispanics as a separate grouping invalidates a simple racial […]

Categories: Articles.2020-BRJ49-2
67

Miracle on Beech Street: A History of the Holyoke Millers, 1977–82

Once a very sparsely settled farming community, Holyoke, Massachusetts’s geographic location on the banks of the Connecticut River was ideal for development, utilizing its ample source of hydroelectric power.1 A group of four wealthy executives from Boston, about 90 miles to the east, believed the South Hadley Falls of the river was large and powerful […]

Categories: Articles.2021-BRJ50-2
68

Was Ty Cobb a Power Hitter?

Ty Cobb is usually thought of as the very embodiment of the Deadball Era hitter; the “Punch and Judy” counterpoint to the post-1920 Ruthian power game.1 This common misconception is underscored in a number of ways. First, it is supported by the types of players who have surpassed Cobb’s career records. Lou Brock bested his […]

Categories: Articles.2006-BRJ35
69

Ty Cobb’s Splits

Ty Cobb is still remembered as one of the greatest players in the game’s history. He’s perhaps the only player from more than one hundred years ago whose name is still recognized by even casual fans. However, he bears the burden of having played in an era when statistics weren’t compiled or analyzed at anywhere […]

Categories: Articles.2009-BRJ38-2-Fall
70

The Retroactive All-Star Game Project

We all know that the first All-Star Game wasn’t played until 1933 at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. But calls for an annual All-Star Game as early as 1914 in Baseball Magazine. So it might have happened. And with the help of some modern-day innovations, we did make it “happen,” using a combination of the most comprehensive […]

Categories: Articles.2015-BRJ44-1
71

You Know Me Al, by Ring Lardner

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the April 2018 edition of the SABR Deadball Era Committee newsletter. One of the great and enduring achievements of the latter part of the Deadball Era was, in fact, literary: the 1916 publication of “You Know Me Al” by Ring Lardner. The book, which could today be […]

Categories: Articles.Deadball-Era-Committee-newsletter
72

Dave McNally and Peter Seitz at the Intersection of Baseball Labor History

On September 26, 1962, Dave McNally took the mound for the first time as a Baltimore Orioles starter in game one of a doubleheader at Memorial Stadium. The lefty, who spent most of the year pitching for the Elmira Pioneers, hurled the first of his 33 career shutouts. McNally’s two-hit, three-walk effort produced the first […]

Categories: Articles.2020-TNP

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