Guess The Players: Deadball SluggersThe 20-odd years between 1900 and the emergence of Babe Ruth as a slugger are commonly referred to as the dead-ball era of major league baseball. Partly that was literal: The actual baseballs in use were kind of mushy, and were thrown back into play a lot more, even if scuffed…
Guess The Players: Four Corner OutfieldersI didn’t make this point explicitly when I compared the careers of Harold Baines and Dwight Evans, but the Hall of Fame creates a real problem for itself when it elects players who aren’t up the the standards of the other players who are already enshrined. Specifically, Evans is…
Baseball Remembers: Troy PercivalThere was a time, about 20 or 25 years ago, when Troy Percival was one of the top-5 relief pitchers in baseball. And that was the case from his very first year in the league. In 1995, back when the Angels were still from California instead of some odd mix of Anaheim and Los…
Lost in Left Field
Lost in Left Field
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Lost in Left Field
A view of baseball history from historian, author, and SABR member Paul White.
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