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In modern baseball history, only one team not named the New York Yankees has ever won three consecutive World Series. That team was the Oakland Athletics, who captured major league baseball's crown ……続きを見る

In an era of unique baseball stadiums, the Polo Grounds in New York stood out from the rest. With its horseshoe shape, the Polo Grounds had extremely short distances down the foul lines and equally ……続きを見る

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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 rese……続きを見る

Most St. Louis Cardinals fans have taken in a game or two at Busch Stadium, have seen highlights of a young Ozzie Smith, and enjoyed Matt Carpenter's salsa-induced hot streak in 2018. But only real ……続きを見る

The Simpsons and baseball. Since its debut in 1989 (that's back in the last century!), The Simpsons has run for 27 seasons and (back in 2009) became the longest-running American scripted primetime t……続きを見る

Before the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Braves, there were the Boston Red Stockings. They were "Boston's First Nine" and 1871 through 1875, they won four consecutive pennants in the old National As……続きを見る

Minnie Minoso. Martin Dihigo. Luis Tiant Sr. and Jr. Orlando "El Duque" and Livan Hernandez. These are only a few of the leading lights profiled in Cuban Baseball Legends: Baseball's Alternative Uni……続きを見る

"I treasured going to the Winter Meetings. You don't see people for a whole year and then here you are, face to face, and trying to make a deal." ー Roland Hemond (Winter Meetings attendee since 195……続きを見る

Minnie Miñoso. Martín Dihigo. Luis Tiant. Orlando "El Duque" y Liván Hernández. Estas son sólo algunas de las grandes figuras perfiladas en Leyendas del Béisbol Cubano: El Universo Alternativo del B……続きを見る

Built in 1912, Detroit's Tiger Stadium provided unmatched access for generations of baseball fans. Based on a classic grandstand design, its development through the 20th century reflected the boomin……続きを見る

The Italian love affair with sport is passionate, voracious, all-consuming. It provides a backdrop and a narrative to almost every aspect of daily life in Italy and the distinctively pink-coloured n……続きを見る

Founded in 1869, the Chicago Cubs are a charter member of the National League and the last remaining of the eight original league clubs still playing in the city in which the franchise started. Draw……続きを見る

O esporte é entretenimento, lazer, recuperação, cultura, e atende muitas das necessidades vitais do ser humano. Ninguém melhor do que Orlando Duarte, jornalista esportivo de quinze mundiais de futeb……続きを見る

The history of sport in socialist Yugoslavia is a peculiar lens through which to examine the country’s social, cultural and political transformations. Sport is represented as one of the most popular……続きを見る

'An absolute gem. Funny, incredible and brilliantly reported, in Ed Hawkins the sports world has its own Jon Ronson.' - Will Storr The bizarre true story about the cosmic side of sports. Ever wonder……続きを見る

"Mantle’s life story has been told many times, but it’s never received as loving a treatment as this one." Booklist, Starred Review Mickey Mantle is one of baseball’s all-time greats. Playing for th……続きを見る

Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers*.* He brings a fan’s love, a fiction writer’s eye, and an essayist’s sensibility to the ga……続きを見る

At speeds of over 230 miles per hour, the Indy open-wheel race cars set the bar for American Championship car racing. For over 100 years, the Indy cars and their drivers have drawn hundreds of thous……続きを見る

Richard D. Cramer has been doing baseball analytics for just about as long as anyone alive, even before the term “sabermetrics” existed. He started analyzing baseball statistics as a hobby in the mi……続きを見る

Latin American athletes have achieved iconic status in global popular culture, but what do we know about the communities of women in sport? Futbolera is the first monograph on women’s sports in Lati……続きを見る

Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting from 1920 to the Present is an exhaustive, meticulously researched history of bringing the national pastime out of the ballparks and into living rooms via the……続きを見る

The Black Sox Scandal is a cold case, not a closed case. When Eliot Asinof wrote his classic history about the fixing of the 1919 World Series, Eight Men Out, he told a dramatic story of undereducat……続きを見る

During the four seasons the U.S. was at war in World War II (1942-1945), 533 players made their major-league debuts. There were 67 first-time major leaguers under the age of 21 (Joe Nuxhall the youn……続きを見る

Because of Bobby Thomson's dramatic "Shot Heard 'Round the World" in the bottom of the ninth of the decisive playoff game against the Brooklyn Dodgers, the team will forever be in baseball public's ……続きを見る

From its opening on August 18, 1915 to the sudden departure of the Boston Braves to Milwaukee just weeks before the start of the 1953 baseball season, Braves Field was home to Boston's National Leag……続きを見る

On June 28, 2002, more than six hundred members of the Society for American Baseball Research descended on Fenway Park for an interleague contest between the hometown Boston Red Sox and their Nation……続きを見る

"The best team I ever played on was McCarthy's twenty-niners. It was strictly power all the way. No tricky baseball." ー Cubs first baseman Charlie Grimm SABR's newest e-book celebrates the 1929 Chi……続きを見る

It had taken three and a half decades, but the Detroit Tigers were finally crowned the best team in baseball in 1935. Coming on the heels of their hugely disappointing loss in the World Series to th……続きを見る

The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals were one of the most colorful crews ever to play the National Pastime. Sportswriters delighted in assigning nicknames to the players, based on their real or imagined qua……続きを見る