Society for American Baseball Research - Libros y biografía

The Pittsburgh Pirates have a long history, peppered withmoments significant both to Pirates fans and Major LeagueBaseball. While the Pirates are recognized as fielding the firstall-black lineup in 1971,...

This volume by members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) presents the 50 greatest games in Montreal Expos history. The games described here recount the exploits of the many great players...

Late into the Boston Red Sox's infamous 86-year championship drought—from 1918 to 2004—it wasnearly taboo to talk seriously about the 1918 team. Some believed the Red Sox were cursed because theyear after...

Before the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Braves, there were the Boston Red Stockings. They were "Boston's First Nine" and 1871 through 1875, they won four consecutive pennants in the old National Association,...

In modern baseball history, only one team not named the New York Yankees has ever won three consecutive World Series. That team was the Oakland Athletics, who captured major league baseball's crown each...

Game Seven of the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and the Yankees swung back and forth. Heading into the bottom of the eighth inning at Forbes Field, the Yankees had outscored the Pirates, 53-21,...

Recaps of the greatest baseball games ever played in the "eighth wonder of the world," the Astrodome, along with information about Astros history and the building of the Dome. 

Pitching a no-hitter is a dream for every major-league pitcher — once they have realized their dream of making it to the big leagues in the first place. Fewer than half the pitchers in the National Baseball...

"The best team I ever played on was McCarthy's twenty-niners. It was strictly power all the way. No tricky baseball." — Cubs first baseman Charlie GrimmSABR's newest e-book celebrates the 1929 Chicago...

This book rekindles memories of Milwaukee's County Stadium through detailed summaries of 72 games played there, and insightful feature essays about the history of the ballpark. The process to select games...

The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals were one of the most colorful crews ever to play the National Pastime. Sportswriters delighted in assigning nicknames to the players, based on their real or imagined qualities....

BASE BALL'S 19TH CENTURY "WINTER" MEETINGS looks at the business meetings of base ball's earliest days (not all of which were in the winter). As John Thorn writes in his Foreword, "This monumental volume...

Major League Baseball A Mile High: The First Quarter Century of the Colorado Rockiesprovides a look at the first 25 years (1993 through 2017) of the major-league baseball team inDenver, the Colorado Rockies....

The 1959 Chicago White Sox broke a 40-year pennant drought on the city's South Side, begun after the 1919 Black Sox scandal. The scrappy Go-Go Sox, with pitching, fielding and timely hitting, finally...

Baseball Research Journal (BRJ): Volume 49, #1 (Spring 2020 Issue)edited by Cecilia M. Tan The flagship publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the <I>Baseball Research...

The Federal League formed in 1913 as an "outlaw league" in six cities across the Midwest. In 1914 it added two teams and declared itself a major league. The league's owners "stole" players from the two...

Featuring an introduction by John Schuerholz, biographies of 40 players and over a dozen coaches and front office executives, and writeups of 10 key games from the 1995 season. It has been 25 years since...

Babe Ruth thrilled baseball fans with his tremendous home-run swing. He made friends—and some enemies—with his loud, larger-than-life personality. The list of books about Ruth could fill a few bookshelves....

More than a century has passed since the "glorious Beaneaters" era of Boston's baseball history in the 1890s. While Boston would soon have a second baseball club that would capture the hearts of New England...

Rich in anecdotes and humor, Bill Werber's Memories of a Ballplayer is a clear-eyed memoir of the world of big-league baseball in the 1930s. Originally published by SABR in hardcover in 2000 and in paperback...

The Newark Eagles won only one Negro National League pennant during the franchise's 15-year tenure in the Garden State, but the 1946 squad that ran away with the NNL and then triumphed over the Kansas...

The Fall 2020 edition of SABR's Baseball Research Journal (Volume 49, issue 2), runs the gamut of research, from the nineteenth century to events that took place in 2020. The article that anchors this...