This baseball research gem may be the best example I’ve ever seen of what the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) is all about: fantastic new research that embraces collaboration, is wonderfully interesting, and just plain fun. It’s no surprise that it comes from the great Mark Armour.
BREAKING: Public Launch of Satchel Paige Project
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There is a short explainer on my website, then you click on the map and see where it takes you. Please pass this around to anyone you think might be interested
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There is a short explainer on my website, then you click on the map and see where it takes you. Please pass this around to anyone you think might be interested
The Satchel Paige Project
Intro Since late 2023 I have been on a quest to log every pitching appearance in the extraordinary life and baseball career of Satchel Paige. From age 19 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to oldtimers gam…
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July 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This baseball research gem may be the best example I’ve ever seen of what the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) is all about: fantastic new research that embraces collaboration, is wonderfully interesting, and just plain fun. It’s no surprise that it comes from the great Mark Armour.
Disappointed to see that the 1994 Ted Williams baseball card set “honored” Bud Fowler with a card featuring a photo of Joe Miller (not Bud Fowler) of the 1898 Page Fence Giants. Arrgh!
May 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Disappointed to see that the 1994 Ted Williams baseball card set “honored” Bud Fowler with a card featuring a photo of Joe Miller (not Bud Fowler) of the 1898 Page Fence Giants. Arrgh!
I thought that I had seen most every photo of 3'7" Eddie Gaedel (sabr.org/bioproj/pers...), but this one (with baseball clown Max Patkin) was new to me.
May 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I thought that I had seen most every photo of 3'7" Eddie Gaedel (sabr.org/bioproj/pers...), but this one (with baseball clown Max Patkin) was new to me.
Breaking news: Newly Identified Newspaper Article Pushes Earliest Date of Japanese Baseball Back to July 1869. Important research by Rob Fitts and Yoichi Nagata. www.robfitts.com/post/newly-i...
May 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Breaking news: Newly Identified Newspaper Article Pushes Earliest Date of Japanese Baseball Back to July 1869. Important research by Rob Fitts and Yoichi Nagata. www.robfitts.com/post/newly-i...
Important discovery: One of the earliest-known on-field baseball photos shows two teams (Potomac of Washington DC and Excelsior of Baltimore) on June 6, 1860, the day they played near the White House ... likely seen in the background. h/t Craig Brown at tinyurl.com/4p92pce2
March 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Important discovery: One of the earliest-known on-field baseball photos shows two teams (Potomac of Washington DC and Excelsior of Baltimore) on June 6, 1860, the day they played near the White House ... likely seen in the background. h/t Craig Brown at tinyurl.com/4p92pce2
Wonderful photo of baseball player Lefty Leid of the Portland (Maine) Green Stockings, 1925.
January 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Wonderful photo of baseball player Lefty Leid of the Portland (Maine) Green Stockings, 1925.
Yep. The off-season has long been a time when baseball players looked to sign for big dollars. This poem was published on January 30, 1884, in "Puck."
January 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Yep. The off-season has long been a time when baseball players looked to sign for big dollars. This poem was published on January 30, 1884, in "Puck."