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Each Autumn this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events. Drawn from the research efforts of more than 6,700 SABR members, The National Pastime establishes an accurate, lively, and entertaining historical record of baseball.

Presents baseball research with a strong analytical approach. Made up of statistical studies, in-depth examinations of playing techniques, and articles focusing on baseball as a business, the Baseball Research Journal draws from the research efforts of members of the Society for American Baseball Research.

Contains interviews baseball figures who share their insights into the game from a hitter's perspective. This book features baseball figures such as Ty Cobb, Cy Young, and Babe Ruth revealing such secrets of the game as bunting, batting stance, and how to choose a bat. It also covers baseball player superstitions and how to outguess the pitcher.

Each Autumn this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events. Drawn from the research efforts of more than 6,700 SABR members, The National Pastime establishes an accurate, lively, and entertaining historical record of baseball.

A memoir of the world of big-league baseball in the 1930s. Bill Werber played major-league baseball from 1930 to 1942. He then had a successful career as an insurance executive.

Presents baseball research with a strong analytical approach. Made up of statistical studies, in-depth examinations of playing techniques, and articles focusing on baseball as a business, the Baseball Research Journal draws from the research efforts of members of the Society for American Baseball Research.

Each Autumn this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events. Drawn from the research efforts of more than 6,700 SABR members, The National Pastime establishes an accurate, lively, and entertaining historical record of baseball.

Each Autumn this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events. Drawn from the research efforts of more than 6,700 SABR members, The National Pastime establishes an accurate, lively, and entertaining historical record of baseball.

Hall of Fame member Wilbert Robinson began his career as a catcher. He went on to make a reputation with McGraw's New York Giants as a great developer of pitchers. Subsequently he took over the Brooklyn Dodgers, quickly turning them into pennant winners, and gradually becoming the borough's beloved Uncle Robbie.

Cleveland made all-star history in 1997 when the local Indians became the first major league baseball franchise ever to host the All-Star Game five times. But the mid-summer classic is just part of the rich legacy of all-star baseball in Cleveland.

Each Autumn this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events. Drawn from the research efforts of more than 6,700 SABR members, The National Pastime establishes an accurate, lively, and entertaining historical record of baseball.

From the Introduction: Renewed interest in nineteenth century baseballΓÇöjust a trickle when SABR''s pioneering Nineteenth Century Stars was publishedΓÇöhas become a steady stream. Every year since 1989 has seen the publication of one or more new books devoted entirely to the nineteenth century game, and books that treat the whole history of baseball are less likely than they were to undervalue the nineteenth century. It is even possible to witness authentic early baseball, as played by dozens of vintage ball clubs, many of them representing historic villages and museums.Most of the persons profiled are players, but there are also umpires, managers, club owners, league officials and baseball writers. There are men as prominent as Albert Goodwill Spalding, who after a brilliant pitching career founded what became the dominant sporting goods company, and then wrote the first history of baseball. And Michael "King" Kelly, the game''s first superstar, who inspired the song "Slide, Kelly, Slide." There are others whose names are no longer familiar, like William Cammeyer, who first had the bright idea of putting fence around a baseball park. And Al Spink, who founded The Sporting News. And pitched Bert Cunningham, who posted a losing record over all, but in one splendid season won more games than Cy YoungΓÇöfor a team that finished 33 games out of first place. Cy Young is also here. So is Adrian Anson, an awesome hitter who was known as "Pop" by the end of his 27-year major league career, and George Stovey, an awesome pitcher who never played a single major league game because of the racist views of men like Anson. Two umpires called "Honest John"ΓÇöGaffney and KellyΓÇöare profiled here, and no fewer than four "fathers of baseball'': Alexander Cartwright, whose suggestion to his friends one day on a ball field led to the game we know today; Daniel L. "Doc" Adams, who biographer John Thorn argues is the "real" father of the game; Henry Chadwick, a journalist who, after his life was transformed by baseball, spent the next half century transforming baseball itself; and Harry Wright, the father of professional baseball, who made the pro game the wave of the future.

Each Autumn this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events. Drawn from the research efforts of more than 6,700 SABR members, The National Pastime establishes an accurate, lively, and entertaining historical record of baseball.

John Montgomery Ward (1860-1925) tossed the second perfect game in major league history and later became the game''s best shortstop and a great, inventive manager. He led the players into their own league in 1890 and came within a hair''s breadth of changing the structure of baseball forever. Baseball: How to Become a Player is one of the game''s early classics, and should be in every serious baseball library.

Each Autumn this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events. Drawn from the research efforts of more than 6,700 SABR members, The National Pastime establishes an accurate, lively, and entertaining historical record of baseball.

Each Autumn this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events. Drawn from the research efforts of more than 6,700 SABR members, The National Pastime establishes an accurate, lively, and entertaining historical record of baseball.

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, records, and many other disciplines are represented to expand our knowledge of baseball as it is, was, and could be played.

In this issue . . . If experiencing the game of baseball were limited to actual participation or in-person attendance, the sport would mean much less to all of us that it does. Because we read about the game, we can enjoy it long after the fact, and in a whole new form: digested, chewed, analyzed, stat-icized. The electronic media have also played a big part ΓÇö letting up "be there" for games many miles too far for a drive. This two-sided richness of enjoying baseball is at the two-sided center of this edition of The SABR Review of Books. The SABR Review of Books is here to provide literary opinion, so we begin with a survey of a blue-ribbon panel of baseball writers and researchers, asking the question, "What books would constitute the essential baseball library?" We compiled the results and added the comments of the participants. What we got is an intriguing forum that sounds like a SABR bull session ΓÇö full of savvy and conversation.The recent release of several books on or about baseball broadcasting is the other main section of this issue. First is Curt SmithΓÇÖs magnum opus, Voices of the Game. ItΓÇÖs the first full-scale history of broadcasters and broadcasting. Accompanying that review are views of books by two characters who played big roles themselves in SmithΓÇÖs book: Jack Brickhouse and Ernie Harwell. Joep Oppenheimer reviews the former, Jim OΓÇÖDonnell the latter. Then we asked videophile and sports broadcaster himself, Bill Borst, to review the baseball videos now available.BaseballΓÇÖs literary legacy is much more than histories and narratives. It has spawned major works in both fiction and poetry. Yet while the wedding between baseball and poetry has been fruitful, baseball fiction often leaves an unfulfilled feeling. Why is that? We asked Luke Salisburgy, who has tackled the challenge of writing baseball fiction himself, why itΓÇÖs so goshdarned tough to do well. Poet Ira Stone provides us with a ΓÇ£MediationΓÇ¥ on the linkage of baseball and poetry, advising that ΓÇ£These poets did not seek to write about baseball. . . . These poets surprised themselves in creating poems wrapped in the mythology of baseball . . .ΓÇ¥Comparisons seem to be at the heart of nearly any baseball discussion, so itΓÇÖs only fair that two articles in this issue start with that premise. Adie Suehsdorf reviews Say It AinΓÇÖt So, Joe and One Last Round for the Shuffler, two works that treat similar baseball characters: one a legend for his faults, the other barely a memory. For the first issue of The SABR Review Frank Phelps was asked to review Anton GrobaniΓÇÖs Baseball Biography, and he did, but between contribution and publication, we got word of a ΓÇ£new and betterΓÇ¥ bibliography, this one by Myron Smith. So we asked Frank to review it. The result is a side-by-side comparison of the two. Must reading for baseball bibliophiles.Always fascinating are those behind-the-scenes looks at the game that go beyond clubhouse chatter, into the worlds of power and prestige. Merritt Clifton analyzes what the notorious Bowie Kuhn said about himself in Hardball, and Don WarfieldΓÇÖs book on Larry MacPhail is discussed by Philip Bergen.This issueΓÇÖs ΓÇ£personal favoriteΓÇ¥ feature looks lovingly at Pitching in a Pinch, by Christy Mathewson. Rob Johnson even explains how he spent years searching for a copy of it he could call his own. And we all know that feeling.But thatΓÇÖs far from all: we have reviews of Joe DursoΓÇÖs Baseball and the American Dream, by Darrell Berger; Pete Cava on The Dixie Association; Lawrence Rubin squares off with The Sporting News on their ΓÇ£Fifty Greatest GamesΓÇ¥; Glenn Stout discusses Maury AllenΓÇÖs Maris; and more.

This first issue of The SABR Review takes a look at two of the newest works on non-regular-season baseball: A Baseball Winter and (on Spring Training) The Short Season. It also covers Jim Kaplan's diary of the `83 season.