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A slide of a sepia photograph of Billy Sunday, seen from the knees up. Sunday wears a dark suit, white vest, and dark tie. He has his hands in his pockets and is looking past the camera to his right with an open mouth smile. The photograph has a facsimile note reading, “Billy Sunday. The […]

A  black-and-white photocopy of Mace Brown from the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers Picture Pack. Brown is visible from the chest up. He is looking at the camera with a straight face and is wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. The blurry background shows a stadium grandstand. A facsimile autograph in the middle of the photograph reads, “Mace […]

A slide of Henry Aaron’s baseball card from the 1954 Johnston Cookies reprint set. The card features a color portrait of Aaron smiling and a sepia background. He is wearing a Milwaukee Braves uniform. Below this image is the name Henry Aaron, the Milwaukee Braves logo, and a facsimile signature reading Henry L. Aaron. Note […]

A slide of Henry Aaron’s baseball card from the 1954 Johnston Cookies reprint set. The card features a color portrait of Aaron smiling and a sepia background. He is wearing a Milwaukee Braves uniform. Below this image is the name Henry Aaron, the Milwaukee Braves logo, and a facsimile signature reading Henry L. Aaron. Note […]

A black-and-white negative of the cover of Vanity Fair from September 1933. There is a caricature drawing of Babe Ruth in a white pinstriped uniform, but the New York Yankees logo is missing. He is holding a bat, waiting for a pitch, in a left-handed pose. The image of Ruth is very large, he has […]

A black-and-white negative of the cover of Vanity Fair from September 1933. There is a caricature drawing of Babe Ruth in a white pinstriped uniform, but the New York Yankees logo is missing. He is holding a bat, waiting for a pitch, in a left-handed pose. The image of Ruth is very large, he has […]

A color slide of the cover of Vanity Fair from September 1933. There is a caricature drawing of Babe Ruth in a white pinstriped uniform, but the New York Yankees logo is missing. He is holding a bat, waiting for a pitch, in a left-handed pose. The image of Ruth is very large, he has […]

A 1986 Card Collectors 1951 Bowman Reprint baseball card of Erv Dusak. The back of card number 310 in the set reads, “Erv Dusak Pitcher – Pittsburgh Pirates Born: Chicago, Ill., July 29, 1920 Height: 6-1 1/2 Weight: 194 Bats: Right Throws: Right Since 1938 Erv has played short, second, third and the outfield in […]

A slide of a black-and-white photograph of Tony Kubek (left) and Mickey Mantle (right), seen from the waist up and wearing New York Yankee road uniforms. Kubek is gripping the handle of a baseball bat with both hands, and Mantle is touching the barrel of the bat with both hands. The caption on the right […]

A 1978 1948 Bowman reprint baseball card of Clint Hartung. The back of card number 37 in the set reads, “37 – Clint Hartung Pitcher – New York Giants Born : Hondo, Texas Aug. 10, 1922 Bats : Right Throws : Right Height : 6 : 4 Weight : 215 Clint’s first year in Organized […]

A 1978 1948 Bowman reprint baseball card of Rex Barney. The back of card number 41 in the set reads, “41 – Rex Barney Pitcher – Brooklyn Dodgers Born : Omaha, Neb. Dec. 19, 1924 Bats : Right Throws : Right Height : 6 : 3 Weight : 185 Entered OB when 18. He started […]

Hoss Bowlin’s major-league career amounted to just two games and five at-bats with the 1967 Kansas City Athletics, but his coaching record showed 311 wins in 14 years (1972-1986) while directing the Livingston University (now University of West Alabama) baseball program. Prior to his collegiate coaching, he was a minor-league infielder for 13 seasons – […]

Darrin Jackson has spent more than 40 years in professional baseball, first as a highly respected (and well-traveled) outfielder (1981-99) who overcame cancer and serious illnesses to have a productive career, and then as the longtime analyst for Chicago White Sox television (2000-08) and radio (2009- ) broadcasts. In 2024 Jackson completed his 25th season […]

Rollie Fingers was clearly excited as he caught a leaping Ted Simmons, his catcher, after Fingers struck out Detroit’s Lou Whitaker to nail down the victory and the second-half American League East title for his Milwaukee Brewers in 1981. (The unprecedented split season was devised after the players’ two-month strike was settled.) The Brewers were […]

Cal Koonce was a valuable and reliable member of the Mets bullpen under Gil Hodges. A starter early in his career, he became a reliever who won six games and saved seven for the 1969 Mets. His alliterative name and easygoing manner made him a memorable member of the Miracle Mets; his skill as a […]

  High and Inside The Newsletter of the BioProject Committee Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) May 2019 Past newsletters Editor: Andrea Long From the Directors Guest Columnist: Bill Nowlin From the Editor Update on BioProject Submissions Project Poobahs   From Co-Directors Rory Costello and Gregory H. Wolf Change to BioProject Workflow As part of […]

Babe Ruth (with catcher’s gear) pictured with his team from St. Mary’s Industrial School, and three of the Xaverian brothers who ran the school (in the gazebo). (PUBLIC DOMAIN)   Babe Ruth began his professional baseball career in 1914 as a member of the Baltimore Orioles, a minor-league team in the International League. Long-time Baltimore […]

This article was published in the SABR Deadball Era Committee’s February 2025 newsletter.   The date was July 16, 1909, and there was baseball in the air.1 The catcher showed up in a Panama hat. The left fielder was clad in white flannel trousers with a black silk watch fob dangling from his belt. The […]

Major League Baseball’s point man for international umpiring is Larry Young. A veteran who umpired for 25 years at the big-league level highlighted by two World Series and All-Star games in addition to several Division and League Championships, Young has worked as a supervisor since the latter half of 2007 and represented MLB at each […]

Who’s the batter? Nowadays, fans attending a Detroit Tigers game at Comerica Park can just look at the player—his name and assigned number are on the back of his uniform, and his name is displayed prominently on a huge scoreboard. However, a hundred years or so ago, Tigers fans attending a baseball game at Navin […]

In 1876, at the time of the National League’s inception, the only reasonable way for a baseball team to travel from New York (home of the Mutuals) to St. Louis (home of the Brown Stockings) on a regular basis was by train. Stagecoach was too slow. Buses, and roads good enough to support them, were […]

Most people associate the history of night baseball with a few isolated incidents, Larry MacPhail in 1935, Johnny Vander Meer’s double-no-hitter in 1938, Wrigley Field in 1988. But the story is a complex one, going all the way back to the first night game in 1880, just a few months after Edison perfected the incandescent […]

A modern fan goes to the ballpark to see two teams battle each other. This is almost always a single game on one day at one venue. However, baseball had a tradition for many years of playing two games on Sundays and holidays such as the Fourth of July, a tradition that has disappeared from […]

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