Sabr 50 at 50 : the society for american baseball research's fifty most essential contributions to the game / edited Bill Nowlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nowlin, Bill, 1945- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--History--United States--Research.

Baseball.

Baseball--Statistics--United States.

Baseball--United States--History.

Society for American Baseball Research--History.

Society for American Baseball Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (627 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

Summary:

"SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American Baseball Research's wide-ranging contributions to the game of baseball"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Editors' Note

1. Ernie Lanigan-Patron Saint of SABR

2. Relative Batting Averages

3. The Best Games Pitched in Relief

4. The First Negro in Twentieth-Century O.B.

5. Average Batting Skill through Major-League History

6. Runs and Wins

7. Ladies and Gentlemen, Presenting Marty McHale

8. In Pursuit of Bull Durham

9. Out at Home

10. The Federal League and the Courts

11. J. Lee Richmond's Remarkable 1879 Season

12. Roy Tucker, Not Roy Hobbs

13. Zane Grey's Redheaded Outfield

14. Honus Wagner's Rookie Year, 1895

15. Four Teams Out

16. Jackie Robinson's Signing

17. Locating Philadelphia's Historic Ballfields

18. Smokey and the Bandit

19. The Evolution of the Baseball Diamond

20. The Book

21. Cricket and Mr. Spalding

22. Lifting the Iron Curtain of Cuban Baseball

23. The Colorado Silver Bullets

24. Cy Seymour

25. Free Agency in 1923

26. Hack Wilson's 191st RBI

27. John McGraw Comes to New York

28. Underestimating the Fog

29. Which Great Teams Were Just Lucky?

30. Why Is the Shortstop "6"?

31. Do Batters Learn During a Game?

32. New Light on an Old Scandal

33. Roberto Clemente's Entry into Organized Baseball

34. The Effects of Integration, 1947-86

35. Pots &amp

Pans and Bats &amp

Balls

36. History vs. Harry Frazee

37. The Quest for Dick McBride

38. Zooming In on a Great Old Photo

39. The Georgia Peach

40. Babe Ruth, Eiji Sawamura, and War

41. Lou Gehrig's RBI Record

42. Clutch Hitting in the Major Leagues

43. Do Hitters Boost Their Performance during Their Contract Years?

44. The Double Victory Campaign and the Campaign to Integrate Baseball

45. The Black Sox Scandal

46. Bill McKechnie

47. The Roster Depreciation Allowance.

48. Professional Woman Umpires

49. The Struggle to Define "Valuable"

50. From Usenet Joke to Baseball Flashpoint.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4962-2326-8

OCLC:

1164184827