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1 online resource |
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data file rda |
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Statistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Society for American Baseball Research -- History.
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Society for American Baseball Research. (OCoLC)fst00581151
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Baseball -- History -- Research -- United States.
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Baseball -- United States -- Statistics.
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Baseball -- United States -- History.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
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Baseball. (OCoLC)fst00827904
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Baseball -- Statistics. (OCoLC)fst00827955
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Nowlin, Bill, 1945- editor.
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Armour, Mark L., editor.
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Bush, Scott, 1982- editor.
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Heaphy, Leslie A., 1964- editor.
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Pomrenke, Jacob, editor.
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Tan, Cecilia, 1967- editor.
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Thorn, John, 1947- writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: SABR 50 at 50. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020] 9781496222688 (DLC) 2020001902 (OCoLC)1153338470 |
| ISBN |
9781496223265 (electronic book) |
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1496223268 (electronic book) |
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