Society For American Baseball Research: 63 books
by Society for American Baseball Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
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,...
Nuclear Powered Baseball: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons Episode 'Homer At the Bat'
SABR Digital Library, #34
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
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 television series. Though it would be considered sacrilege in some circles, some might even see it...
Baseball Research Journal (BRJ), Volume 45 #2
SABR Digital Library, #45.2
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
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,...
Winning on the North Side: The 1929 Chicago Cubs
SABR Digital Library, #25
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
"The best team I ever played on was McCarthy's twenty-niners. It was strictly power all the way. No tricky baseball." — Cubs first baseman Charlie Grimm
SABR's newest e-book celebrates the 1929 Chicago Cubs, one of the most exciting teams in baseball history. Bashing their way to...
Red Sox Baseball in the Days of Ike and Elvis: The Red Sox of the 1950s
SABR Digital Library, #6
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Americans in the 1950s found new ways of enjoying themselves, from the rapid proliferation of television sets into every home, to the dawn of a new age of popular music, rock and roll, symbolized by a charismatic crooner named Elvis Presley. Baseball's place in American culture was still paramount,...
Van Lingle Mungo: The Man, The Song, The Players
SABR Digital Library, #22
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Just as 1930s and 1940s Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants pitcher Van Lingle Mungo was surprised that Dave Frishberg wrote a song around his name back in 1969, so he might have been surprised to come across this book in the year 2014. Frishberg's song "Van Lingle Mungo" listed 37 ballplayers...
Cuban Baseball Legends: Baseball's Alternative Universe
SABR Digital Library, #40
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
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 Universe. The 47 individuals profiled here represent only a small handful of the legions of...
Spring 2016 Baseball Research Journal
SABR Digital Library, #45.1
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
The semi-annual interdisciplinary journal of research by members of the Society for American Baseball Research.
The Whiz Kids Take the Pennant: The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies
SABR Digital Library, #54
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies―the "Whiz Kids"―threatened to run away with the pennant, but slumped badly in late summer before finally beating the Brooklyn Dodgers in a thrilling 10-inning game on the last day of the season. That day at Ebbets Field they won only the second pennant...
Major League Baseball A Mile High: The First Quarter Century of the Colorado Rockies
SABR Digital Library, #58
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Major League Baseball A Mile High: The First Quarter Century of the Colorado Rockies
provides a look at the first 25 years (1993 through 2017) of the major-league baseball team in
Denver, the Colorado Rockies. Included are essays on the birth of the Rockies and biographies
of 24 of the most important...
Can He Play? A Look at Baseball Scouts and Their Profession
SABR Digital Library, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
They dig through tons of coal to find a single diamond. They spend countless hours traveling miles and miles on lonely back roads and way too much time in hotels. Their front offices expect them to constantly provide player reports and updates. So much of their time is spent away from family and friends,...
New Century, New Team: The 1901 Boston Americans
SABR Digital Library
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
The team now known as the Boston Red Sox played its first season in 1901. The city of Boston had a well-established National League team, known at the time as the Beaneaters, but the founders of the American League knew that Boston was a strong baseball market and when they launched the league as...
Mustaches and Mayhem: Charlie O's Three-Time Champions The Oakland Athletics: 1972-74
SABR Digital Library, #31
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
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 each year from 1972 through 1974.
Led by such superstars as future Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson,...
'75: The Red Sox Team that Saved Baseball
SABR Digital Library, #27
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In 1975, the Boston Red Sox played in what was the most-watched World Series in history, an epic seven-game battle with Cincinnati's Big Red Machine that captivated the nation's attention and revived baseball's lagging popularity. '75 tells the life stories of the 37 players who made up the Red...