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One of baseball's highest-regarded feats is the cycle: "A single, double, triple, and home run (not necessarily in that order) hit by a player in the same game." (1) In [...]

INTRODUCTION If you pick the baseball milestone carefully enough, you can always reduce to one the number of players that qualify. For example, the only player to hit more than [...]

Don Fisher was working for the electric company and pitching sandlot baseball in Cleveland when he signed with the New York Giants in August 1945. He pitched only two games [...]

Rube Waddell. Walter Johnson. Lefty Grove. Bob Feller. Sandy Koufax. Sam McDowell. Nolan Ryan. Doc Gooden. Roger Clemens. Pedro Martinez. Randy Johnson. (There are others, of course.) Their names are [...]

When he finally hung up his spikes, after hurling his last pitch on May 19, 1946, Ted Lyons had accumulated 260 mound victories, a total which at the time ranked [...]

Aquino Abreu--a diminutive right-handed fastball specialist who labored for a decade and a half during the formative years of the modern era post-revolution Cuban League--remains entirely unknown to North American [...]

INTRODUCTION This paper has two parts. Part I: The Demise of the 20-Game Winner is a statistical analysis on the history of 20-game winners and possible factors contributing to their [...]

In 1999 there was a shoe company advertising campaign that featured the slogan: 'Chicks dig the long ball.' The ad starred two Cy Young Award-winning pitchers who definitely did not [...]

When Bill James first made his Game Score widely public in the Historical Baseball Abstract (1988), he humbly called it a 'garbage stat.' He did feature a three-page essay on [...]

Ace Winger broke into the big leagues at the tender age of 21 and went on to a productive twenty-year-long pitching career. By the time he hung up his cleats [...]

By the time she pitched and won the final game of the Shaughnessy Championship Series for the Kalamazoo Lassies on Sunday, September 5, 1954, June Peppas had twice been selected [...]

AS an editor for most of my 38 years as a journalist, predominantly in daily newspapers, I became accustomed over time to looking for anomalies, errors or omissions in story [...]