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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The flagship publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Baseball Research Journal is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed publication presenting the best in SABR member research on baseball. History, biography, economics, physics, psychology, game theory, sociology and culture, records, and many other disciplines are represented.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Spring 2026 issue of SABR''s Baseball Research Journal delves into topics ranging from interracial baseball in 1867 to left-handed double-play combinations, from translating the rules of baseball into Mi''kmaq (the indigenous language of Canada''s Atlantic Provinces) to professional women players in Banana Ball. "Did MLB''s Clean Ball Policy Fuel the Hitting and Scoring Surge of the 1920s?" by David J. Gordon Some baseball analysts have pointed to baseball''s adoption of its "Clean Ball Policy" following the August 1920 beaning death of Cleveland SS Ray Chapman as a major catalyst of the surge in hitting and scoring that marked the turning point demarcating the end of baseball''s "Deadball Era" and the dawn of the modern game. If this hypothesis is true, this offensive surge should show up mainly in the later innings, when scuffed and dirty balls would have previously remained in play; the new policy would have had little or no impact in the early innings, when fresh baseballs were always in play. But was such a simple solution the real answer? Did replacing those dirty, scuffed-up balls with new ones really lead to the outbreak of offense in the 1920s? "Babe Ruth''s Anomalous 1929 Season: Why Did His Bases on Balls Plummet?" by Herm Krabbenhoft and Mike Haupert Babe Ruth was an extraordinary batter with respect to the "three true outcomes" in baseball. In the two positive outcomes - hitting home home runs and receiving bases on balls - the Sultan of Swat topped the American League twelve times and eleven times, respectively. In the negative true outcome - striking out - the Bambino led the AL just five times. From 1926 through 1931, Ruth put together "the finest sustained display of hitting that baseball has ever seen." During those six seasons he averaged 50 home runs, 155 runs batted in, 147 runs scored, and batted .354. Ruth led the AL in homers in each of those six seasons and also drew the most walks in each of those seasons - EXCEPT in 1929, in which he finished tenth with a total of only 72 free passes. For the three previous seasons (1926-28) Ruth had averaged 139 walks per season. And for the three subsequent seasons (1930-32) Ruth averaged 131 walks per season. What happened in 1929? "A Toast to Sam Payne: The Diminutive Civil War Vet Who Became Phillies Groundskeeper, and One of Their Biggest Personalities" by Kenny Ayers Sam Payne, the wily, mustachioed groundskeeper for the Phillies from the early 1900s to 1932, was famous and popular in both baseball circles and with the Philadelphia populace. He was eccentric, pugnacious, entertaining, kind, more than a bit vain and possessed an unwavering devotion to his craft and ball club. Stan Baumgartner, who pitched for the Phillies during that time, recalled that the first time he ran onto the field to warm up with a new ball, Payne stopped him in his tracks. "Just a minute son, you aren''t well enough acquainted around here to get a brand-new ball to play with. Wait until you''re dry behind the ears," Payne told him, mentioning he had once said the same to Grover Cleveland Alexander and other veterans. "And see that little door back there. That is the way back to the clubhouse when you get knocked out. The hinges are well-greased, so you can sneak out quietly." "On the Association of Umpire Performance with Age and Experience in MLB" by Dale Zimmerman, Chenyang Li, and Riley Post Perhaps no sport relies on the accuracy and consistency of its officials more than baseball, where the home plate umpire calls a ball or strike on every pitch not swung at by the batter. The relatively sedentary nature of the home plate umpire''s duties compared to officials in other major sports allows individuals to perform this role to a more advanced age and to accrue relatively greater experience. Here, we investigate the associations of two metrics of home plate umpire performance with umpire age and experience using game-level data from 2015 to 2023 provided by the StatCast pitch-tracking system. Are older, more experienced umpires more desirable to have behind the plate than younger umpires with less experience.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The flagship publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Baseball Research Journal is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed publication presenting the best in SABR member research on baseball. History, biography, economics, physics, psychology, game theory, sociology and culture, records, and many other disciplines are represented.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Spring 2024 issue of the Baseball Research Journal features fourteen articles covering topics ranging from statistical analysis to nineteenth century baseball from researchers including Alan Cohen, Herm Krabbenhoft, and Woody Eckard, as well as profiles of this year's Henry Chadwick Award winners: Sarah Langs, Larry Gerlach, and Leslie Heaphy. Charlie Pavitt brings us the first of two articles analyzing plummeting batting averages in the major leagues (more than defensive shifts are to blame) and Peter Dreier takes a comprehensive look at how the changes in demographics of the United States are reflected by the representation of Jewish players in major league baseball.  ON THE COVER: Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, is the oldest professional baseball park in the United States. This summer it will add another chapter to its rich history when it hosts the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals in an MLB regular-season game. In this issue, John Shorey and Kevin Warneke examine how a game played 100 years ago at Rickwood between the Black Barons and the Cuban Stars was the first major-league game played at the historic ballpark. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: "Mary Dobkin: Baltimore's Grande Dame of Baseball" by David Krell Mary Dobkin learned English through radio broadcasts and newspapers, which is a familiar tale for twentieth-century immigrants. Baseball was both an outlet and a salve, as she suffered through many operations and medical treatments. "Then one summer she got to attend therapy camp," reads a 1979 Los Angeles Times profile. "From her wheelchair, she was taught to catch and hit a baseball. It was magic. Quiet, reclusive Mary Dobkin returned to the hospital a new person, ignited by direct experience with baseball." She would go on to create and run baseball teams for underprivileged kids for decades, and her life story would become a movie starring Jean Stapleton. "The Ill-Fated Dodgers and Indians World Baseball Tour of 1952" by Matthew Jacob Abe Saperstein is best known as the founder of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, but he also was deeply involved in many aspects of professional baseball. With the US State Department's cooperation, Saperstein drafted plans for an international tour by big-league baseball teams in 1952--a trip that one sports editor called "the most ambitious barnstorming tour in the history of baseball." Saperstein's plan called for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cleveland Indians to play a series of 22 games over a 60-day schedule, beginning in Hawaii and then continuing to Japan, India, Egypt, Australia, and North Africa. The Dodgers and Indians had been the first racially integrated teams in their respective leagues, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson referred to this dynamic as a key reason why the government would back the proposed tour. Because both teams had players "of every nationality, creed, and color," he wrote, the trip would attest to America's democratic values. "'Death to Flying Things': The Life and Times of a Spurious Nickname" by Richard Hershberger "Death to Flying Things" is one of the all-time great baseball nicknames, routinely included in lists of such things. Indeed, it serves double duty, attributed to two players: Robert Ferguson and John Chapman. Both men played for the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn in the 1860s, but, sadly, neither Ferguson nor Chapman was called "Death to Flying Things" during their playing careers, or for many years after. The nickname is entirely spurious. This article will attempt to explain where the supposed nickname came from in the first place, and how it got assigned to two different persons.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Fall 2024 issue of the Baseball Research Journal features thirteen articles on a wide range of topics, from the minor leagues to biomechanics, including how the game is changing, or has changed, from the effects of tinkering with the rules (both recent and not), to pioneering personnel. We also have the second half of three two-parters, Ed Denta continuing his look into streaks, Charlie Pavitt wraps up his investigation of why batting average has plummeted, and we finish Peter Dreier's opus on Jews and baseball.   ON THE COVER: Leroy "Satchel" Paige was a living legend during his career, but his election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown was far from assured, given that many of his best years were spent in the Negro Leagues and were unrecognized by the baseball establishment for quite some time. In this issue, Mark Armour delves into the movement to get Paige into the Hall of Fame and the various obstacles to be overcome.   ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:   "Rachel Balkovec: A Comprehensive Profile" by Barrett Snyder   Rachel Balkovec's résumé includes several firsts: the first woman to serve as a strength and conditioning coordinator in affiliated baseball; the first woman to do so for a major-league team in Latin American baseball; the first woman hitting coach and All-Star Futures Game coach; and the first woman to manage an affiliated team. In 2022-2023 she served as field manager of the New York Yankees' affiliate, the Tampa Tarpons. Today, she is the director of player development for the Miami Marlins. Based on extensive research and personal interviews, Barrett Snyder presents a detailed picture of this pioneer.   "The Pitcher's Cycle: Definitions and Achievers (1893-2023)" by Herm Krabbenhoft   The goal of this article is to create a "pitcher's cycle" that would be as rare but achievable as the batter's cycle, and then to examine pitchers who have accomplished the feat. I wanted to adhere to the basic definition of a cycle, "a sequence of a recurring succession of events or phenomena," and create an equivalent to the batter's cycle: a series of pitching achievements commensurate to a batter collecting the series of all four types of safe hit. A batter's primary objective is to get on base, which he can achieve entirely by himself by getting a safe hit. A pitcher's primary objective is to retire the batter, which he can do entirely by himself by striking out the batter. Since there are nine different players in the batting lineup, a reasonable cycle would be for the pitcher to strike out an opposing batter from each slot in the batting order at least once in a game.   "Ghost Stories and Zombie Invasions Testing the Myths of Extra-Inning Outcomes" by Connelly Doan, MA   The decision to introduce "ghosts" and "zombies" to MLB prompts two main questions "Does departing from the tradition of the game actually lead to shorter games?" and "Is the strategy of extra-inning games simplified to sacrifice-bunting the automatic runner to third and hitting a sacrifice fly or a single to score, thus making the game even less exciting?" This paper will present data from extra-inning games from 2018 through 2022 to try to answer these questions. We will look at average innings per extra-inning game, average extra-inning runs scored per game, frequency of extra-inning bunt attempts, bunt success rate, and the game situations when bunt attempts occurred.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Spring 2012 issue of the Baseball Research Journal features 17 articles, showcasing the best of baseball research in many disciplines, including game theory, statistical analysis, physiology and perception, history, and baseball records.

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