Aug. 13, 2009
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1946-1960 - The Golden Years
from Historic Baseball
The landscape of baseball changed forever during this era. Black athletes were no longer kept off the field. They were allowed to become Major League players thanks to Jackie Robinson and Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey. More
    
Disappointment in Des Moines: George Davis' Luckless Year
from by Bill Lamb, SABR member
"It looks like we have the pennant cinched," so declared the Des Moines Daily News on the morning of March 7, 1910 in announcing that just retired Chicago White Sox star George Davis had been engaged to manage the Des Moines Boosters, defending champions of the Class A Western League. More
    

Ty Cobb Practices as Vanderbilt Football Player
from by Bill Traughber, SABR member
The great and controversial Ty Cobb came to Nashville, Tenn., during Thanksgiving week of the 1911 for the Vanderbilt vs. Sewanee football game. Cobb was not in town to give an exhibition on baseball, but came to Nashville – to act. Cobb was coming off an American League MVP season where he batted .420. In this off-season, Cobb was performing in the lead role of the play, "The College Widow." The play was held in Nashville’s Vendome Theater, which was located on Church Street. Cobb was appearing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday nights with a Wednesday matinee. More
    

A Conversation with Negro League Baseball Legend Buck O'Neil
from The Chris Murray Report
Among baseball historians and well-wishers, Buck O'Neil was the unofficial ambassador of the Negro Leagues, writes Chris Murray. O'Neil was the griot of the Negro Leagues who regaled Americans, regardless of races, with the tales of Josh Gibson, Judy Johnson, and "Cool Papa Bell." Even beyond Negro League Baseball, O'Neil was a student, if not a professor, of baseball history in general. More
    

F. C. Lane
from SABR Biography Committee
A Sabermetrician long before there ever was such a thing, Lane was Editor-in-Chief of Baseball Magazine (Boston, 1910-1912), (1912-1938, NYC). He wrote probably close to 1,000 excellent detailed articles on baseball's technical side as well as interviews with stars at home in winter. More
    

Youngest Minor Leaguer?
from The Baseball Research Journal Archive
It is generally assumed that the youngest player ever to take part in a regular official baseball game was the present Tiger coach, Joe Schultz, who pinch hit for Houston at the close of the 1931 season shortly after his 13 birthday. There is a report, however, of a 12-year-old black boy taking part in a game in the Georgia State League on July 19, 1952. More

A Short History of Japanese Baseball
from SABR Asian Baseball Committee
Baseball was introduced to Japan in the early 1870s, by Horace Wilson a teacher at Kaisei Gakko in Tokyo. In the same decade, Hiroshi Hiraoka, an engineer for the national railways, returned from studying in American. Upon his return, he introduced the sport to his co-workers and established Japan's first organized team, the Shimbashi Athletic Club, in 1878. More
    

Take Me Out to the Ball Game
from The Library of Congress
One hundred years ago in May of 1908, the United States Copyright Office received two copies of a new song titled "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." This musical work, affectionately referred to over the century as the "other" national anthem, baseball's national anthem, has become the grand-slam of all baseball songs. More
    

SABR Announces Winners of Lee Allen and Jack Kavanagh Awards
from SABR
The Society for American Baseball Research is pleased to announce the winners of the Lee Allen History of Baseball Award and the Jack Kavanagh Memorial Youth Baseball Research Award, both of which are presented to students college-aged or younger. More
    

First SABR-AFL Conference to Feature Four Games and More
from SABR
In partnership with the Arizona Fall League and the Major League Baseball Players Alumni of Arizona, the Flame Delhi Chapter of SABR is hosting its inaugural Arizona Fall League Conference. More