SABR 50 at 50 : the Society for American Baseball Research's fifty most essential contributions to the game /
"SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American Baseball Research's wide-ranging contributions to the game of baseball"--
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| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Ernie Lanigan
- patron saint of SABR / Frederick G. Leib
- Relative batting averages / David Shoebotham
- The best games pitched in relief / L. Robert Davids
- The first Negro in twentieth-century O.B. / William J. Weiss
- Average batting skill through major-league history / Richard D. Cramer
- Runs and wins / Pete Palmer
- Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Marty McHale / Lawrence S. Ritter
- In pursuit of Bull Durham / Bill Haber
- Out at home / Jerry Malloy
- The Federal League and the courts / Gary D. Hailey
- J. Lee Richmond's remarkable 1879 season / John R. Husman
- Roy Tucker, not Roy Hobbs : the baseball novels of John R. Tunis / Philip Bergen
- Zane Grey's redheaded outfield / Joseph M. Overfield
- Honus Wagner's rookie year, 1895 / A.D. Suehsdorf
- Four teams out : the National League reduction of 1900 / Bob Bailey
- Jackie Robinson's signing : the real story / John Thorn and Jules Tygiel
- Locating Philadelphia's historic ballfields / Jerrold Casway
- Smokey and the Bandit : the greatest pitching duel in blackball history / Larry Lester
- The evolution of the baseball diamond : perfection came slowly / Tom Shieber
- The book / Karl Lindholm
- Cricket and Mr. Spalding / Tom Melville
- Lifting the Iron Curtain of Cuban baseball / Peter C. Bjarkman
- The Colorado Silver Bullets : can promotion based on the "battle of the sexes" be successful / Gai Ingham Berlage
- Cy Seymour : only Babe Ruth was more versatile / Bill Kirwin
- Free agency in 1923 : a shocker for baseball / Steve Steinberg
- Hack Wilson's 191st RBI : a persistent itch finally scratched / Clifford S. Kachline
- John McGraw comes to New York : the 1902 Giants / Clifford Blau
- Underestimating the fog / Bill James
- Which great teams were just lucky? / Phil Birnbaum
- Why is the shortstop "6"? / Keith Olbermann
- Do batters learn during a game? / David W. Smith
- New light on an old scandal / Gene Carney
- Roberto Clemente's entry into organized baseball / Stew Thornley
- The effects of integration, 1947-86 / Mark Armour
- Pots & pans and bats & balls / John Thorn
- History vs. Harry Frazee : re-revising the history / Daniel R. Levitt, Mark L. Armour, Matthew Levitt
- The quest for Dick McBride / Peter Morris
- Zooming in on a great old photo / Mark Fimoff
- The Georgia Peach : stumped by the storyteller / William R. Cobb
- Babe Ruth, Eiji Sawamura, and war / Robert K. Fitts
- Lou Gehrig's RBI record : 1923-39 / Herm Krabbenhoft
- Clutch hitting in the major leagues : a psychological perspective / Leonard S. Newman
- Do hitters boost their performance during their contract years? Evidence from the 2006-11 collective bargaining agreement's years says "yes" / Heather M. O'Neill
- The double victory campaign and the campaign to integrate baseball / Duke Goldman
- The Black Sox scandal / William F. Lamb
- Bill McKechnie / Warren Corbett
- The roster depreciation allowance : how Major League Baseball teams turn profits into losses / Stephen R. Kenney
- Professional woman umpires / Leslie Heaphy
- The struggle to define "valuable" : tradition vs. sabermetrics in the 2012 AL MVP race / Peter B. Gregg
- From Usenet joke to baseball flashpoint : the growth of "three true outcomes" / Diane Firstman.