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The article focuses on the ability of American baseball player of the 1920s Jack Smith to score frequently. Factors that influence a player's ability to score runs and the scores of Eric Davis and other baseball players who had similar scores as those of Davis are discussed. Analyses of Smith's base running numbers during his 1921-22 seasons and of the number of times he advanced on hits compared to that of players of his time with similar profiles as his, are performed.

The article focuses on the performance of batters from 1903 to 2012 during World Series baseball and they are down to their final out. The author examines data in terms of Teams 3 Outs from Elimination Coming Back to Win the Series, Teams Down 3 Games to None Extending the Series to a 5th Game, and Elimination Plate Appearances in Game 4. He also examines data in terms of Elimination Plate Appearances in Game 5, Game 6, and Game 7 and Elimination Plate Appearances in Best-of-Nine Series.

The article describes cases of 2 deals signed by baseball franchises, which are the Tampa Bay Rays' signing of Evan Longoria and the Texas Rangers' signing of Elvis Andrus. The author predicts the outcome of Longoria's contract based on Scott Rolens' $/rWar spent by Rays and his projected league average $/rWar in millions from 2013 to 2023. He also predicts the outcome of Andrus' contract based on Alan Trammell's performance on the same measures throughout the same years.

The article focuses on the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) initiative BioProject which includes a research on the biography of Debs Garms, the 1940 batting champion, by the author. The objectives of the BioProject and its accomplishments in terms of biographies in baseball history are discussed. The author discusses his experiences while researching on Debs Garms' career as a baseball champion which include studies of SABR resources and interviews with Garms' son David.

The article focuses on the competition for the 1949 Triple Crown American League batting title between baseball players George Kell and Ted Williams. The progress of George Kell's career as a baseball player from 1940 with the Newport, a Class D team affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers, until he became a member of the Red Sox Team of Boston after being traded to this team in 1952, is described. Ted Williams' performance in the quest for the 1949 batting title is also described.

The article focuses on using Markov models to determine when major league baseball players are hot or cold and how their batting averages differ between these two states. The Markov Chain, Hidden Markov Model and detailed information about a player's plate appearances over the course of his career are discussed. The method of the study which include the analysis of data and interpretation of results based on the Markov Model is discussed, and a conclusion is offered.

The article focuses on the existence of clutch hitting in American Major League baseball. Phil Birnbaum's study from 1974 until 1990 to test the consistency of players' clutch hitting is discussed. Psychological traits of clutch hitters such as trait anxiety, self consciousness and achievement motivation, and levels of these traits among major league players are mentioned. The statistical implications of the author's analysis of levels of these traits in major league players are also noted.

The article focuses on the Hearst Sandlot Classic, described as a showcase of baseball talent in the U.S. for over 20 years from 1946 until the early 1970s. The support of newspapers for this baseball league like the "New York Journal American," "New York Times," and "Brooklyn Eagle," during these years, roles of the league's leaders like William Randolph Hearst, and achievements of the league's players like Walter James Vincent Maranville of the New York All-Stars are described.

The article discusses the substantial income inequality with Major League Baseball (MLB) which closely reflects income inequality throughout U.S. households but at much higher income levels. Topics discussed include a study on whether baseball players' salaries were always in the top 5% and the extent of income inequality within the sport, the effect of income inequality on performance and whether teams with greater income inequality are less successful on the baseball field.

The article features Felipe Alou, a respected figure in baseball, an All-Star player and a successful manager. He was born on May 12, 1935 in Bajos de Haina, San Cristóbal, Domincan Republic and spent 6 years in local schools and had his high school in Santo Domingo. He entered the University of Santo Domingo's pre-med program and was placed on the baseball team where he got 4 hits in the final games against the U.S. with the Dominican Republic winning the gold medal.

The article highlights the baseball season of 1932 when Jimmie Foxx or Double X made a concerted attack on Babe Ruth's home-run record of 60 in a season. Topics discussed include the Sportsman's Park whose cozy dimensions were found to be a hitter's delight particularly for left-handed power thumpers, Jimmie Foxx's loss due to the right-field screen which denied a portion of the right-field stands to home-run hitters and his overall sub-par performance at Sportsman's Park in 1932.

The article discusses the question of when a first win is awarded to a starting pitcher incorporating a league-mandated rule that requires the 5-inning minimum standard. Topics discussed include the invention of the win in1884 by Henry Chadwick, Frank J. Williams's essay "All the Record Books Are Wrong" which catalogues methods used by official scorers to assign decisions during the Deadball Era and the American League archaic win awarding said to be more of an art form.

The article provides the results of the author's comprehensive and in-depth research in the runs batted in (RBI) record of Babe Ruth during his major-league career. Topics discussed include his major-league RBI statistics as initially recorded, the math errors that credited Ruth with 9 RBIs more than he achieved and the accurate RBI record of Babe Ruth who led the American League in RBIs in 5 seasons and holds the distinguished American League record for Most Runs Batted In with 2,202 RBIs.

The article highlights the bad reputation of Baltimore, Maryland as a baseball town with the local press blaming everybody but themselves while Association opponents blamed management and player habits almost forgetting the umpires. Topics discussed include Baltimore Orioles manager Billie Barnie's discipline problems with his players, accusation from the press that players were playing for their release and Barnie's frustration over his team's unstructured pre-game warm up.

The article discusses the intensity African-American teams bring to playoff encounters as shown by the brawl between Leland Giants pitcher Walter Ball and Chicago Union Giants second baseman Fred "Pop" Roberts during a playoff game in October 1905. Topics discussed include the American Giants' regional imbroglio with Indianapolis A.B.C. during the season of 1915 ad the battle between Brooklyn Royal Giants and Lincoln giants for eastern supremacy.

The article looks at the baseball career of catcher Michael Joseph Piazza. Topics mentioned include details of his first major league home run during a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, statistics on the number of Piazza's home runs during his 16-year career, and a list of Hall of Fame Career Home Runs including Ray Schalk, Roger Bresnahan, and Buck Ewing.

The article presents a history of the Parade Ground baseball park in Brooklyn, New York City. Topics mentioned include a brief description of the field which was established in 1869, famous baseball played at the Ground including Waite Hoyt, Gene Hermanski, and Phil Rizzuto, and reasons behind the field's popularity among amateur baseball players around Brooklyn.

The article provides an overview of the baseball career of pitcher Dave Roberts. Topics mentioned include a list of Major League Baseball teams where Roberts has pitched for including the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and Detroit Tigers, 1971 as a breakout year for Roberts when he played for the San Diego Padres, and challenges encountered by San Diego during the 1971 where it won 61 games.

The article looks at the three-game series between Major League Baseball teams Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays on July 17, 2011. Topics mentioned include details of a statistical event which happened in the game wherein each starter player achieved a game score of 86, a discussion on the concept of game scores defined as a single number which indicates the quality of a starter's performance, and definition of a quality start as having a game score higher than 50.

The article looks at the run batted in (RBI) record set by former baseball player Lou Gehrig. Topics mentioned include number of times Gehrig led the American league in RBI according to the 2012 edition of "The Elias Book of Baseball Records," errors found in Gehrig's official RBI records, and research conducted to ascertain his correct RBI record by obtaining details for every run scored by the New York Yankees baseball team in the games Gehrig played.

The article looks at the use of wins and losses as the official measures of the effectiveness of baseball pitchers. Topics mentioned include contributions to the baseball team's wins as the ultimate measure of a player's contribution, construction of a set of player won-lost records to quantify the contributions of individual players, and a discussion on the concept of Win Probability developed in the book "Player Win Averages" by Eldon and Harlan Mills.

The article looks at the history of protested or suspended baseball games in history. Topics mentioned include an overview of the Pine Tar Game in July 24, 1983 wherein player George Brett of the Kansas City Royals baseball team protested that there was too much pine tar on his bat, issues encountered regarding the debut dates of baseball players during a protested or suspended game, and instances wherein pitchers who havebaseb won suspended games are no longer part of the winning team.

An excerpt from the book "The Runmakers: A New Way to Rate Baseball Players," by Frederick E. Taylor is presented.

The article focuses on the trading of baseball players between the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians and its impact on the teams' performance in the American League. Topics covered include the top players of the Yankees like Joe DiMaggio, Joe Gordon and Marius Russo, the selection of Indians' Allie Reynolds for Yankees' Gordon as part of the trade deal and the performance shown by Gordon as part of the Indians club.

The article recalls the baseball games between the U.S., led by Babe Ruth and Japan, led by Eiji Sawamura, in 1934. Topics covered include the division of the loyalty of Japanese fans, the difficulty encountered by Ruth with knee-high inside curves and the differences between American and Japanese baseball such as the Japanese players being solid fielders and quick runners. Also mentioned is the emergence of Sawamura as a national hero after he held the U.S. team hitless and scoreless.

The article focuses on the career of the late baseball player George Anderson. Topics covered include the selection of the nickname "Sparky" that was bestowed upon Anderson by former Fort Worth Cats broadcaster Bill Hightower, the salary he signed with the Class C Santa Barbara Dodgers and the benefit of having the late George Scherger as manager during Anderson's first season in professional baseball.

The article focuses on the Global World Series of baseball from 1955 to 1957. Topics covered include the talented ballplayers of the Texas Alpine Cowboys such as Clyde McCullough, the spectacular defense played by the Japanese ballclub to beat Canada and the challenge faced by the Fort Wayne Dairymen in defeating Hawaii. Also described is a game between Japan and the U.S., which was won by Japan.

The article focuses on baseball icons Charles S. Kelchner, Jake Daubert and Harry Coveleski of the Kane Mountaineers professional baseball club. Topics covered include the participation of the ball club in the Class D Interstate League in 1905, the reputation of Daubert as an extremely fast runner and a chop hitter and the reason behind the tag "The Giant Killer" given to Coveleski. Also described is the personality of Coveleski according to managing editor Joe Sloan.

The article describes the performance of Tulsa Oilers baseball player Johhny Vander Meer in a match against Beaumont Roughnecks at Stuart Stadium in Texas on July 15, 1952. Topics covered include the problem on run production faced by the Oilers during the season, the career of Vander Meer prior to the game which is typical of players in the mid-20th century and the path of a typical Vander Meer outing which was observed in the early stages of the July 15 game.

The article discusses the use of a game theoretical framework to show how each baseball player solves a dilemma in throwing breaking balls. Topics covered include the description of a pitching situation with the bases empty, the analysis of changes in equilibrium behavior as a function of changes to the game's parameters and the type of risk aversion displayed by the batter. Also mentioned is the advantage gained by the batter over the pitcher when the rate of runaway sliders is high.

The article focuses on the challenges facing the Team USA women's national baseball team as seen in their journey from USA Baseball's National Training Complex in 2010 to the fourth biennial Women's World Cup Baseball Tournament in Venezuela in 2012. Among the team's difficulties are invisibility at home and the lack of time to practice together. Also mentioned are the treatment received by the team in Venezuela and the team's loss to the Venezuelan team.

The article focuses on the run batted in (RBI) record of Detroit Tigers baseball player Hank Greenberg in the American League (AL). Topics covered include the total number of runs batted in by Greenberg during the AL seasons that he played, the assessment of the accuracy of Greenberg's RBI record and the RBI errors discovered on his three games. Also mentioned is his record-breaking RBI season in 1935.

The article discusses the unique sports judging situation found in ball and strike calls in baseball games. Topics covered include the difficulty of determining the specific moment in time when the ball is exactly above home plate, the reasons behind the uniqueness of the ball/strike decision such as the close position of the home plate umpire and the batter and the importance of perceptual experience in proper discrimination of balls and strikes.

The article focuses on the some of the most proficient home run-hitting pitchers in the major leagues. Topics covered include the number of four-baggers hit by Wes Ferrell in his career, the various positions played by Bob Lemon and the game-ending home run made by Craig Lefferts and Craig Nettles. Also mentioned are pitchers who hit two home runs in one game such as Micah Owings and Don Newcombe.

The article analyzes the differences in end-of-season success in Little League baseball based on physical, perceptual, and psychological variables as well as two end-of-season statistics, the batting average (BA) and on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS). Topics discussed include the 5 basic problems with talent research, the use of the Dynamical Systems model to remove such problems, and its application in predicting whether athletes in the study were chosen for their leagues' All-Star teams.

The article discusses the results of a social network analysis aimed at determining whether the level of connectivity of a baseball player correlate to their on-field professional performance. Topics mentioned include a brief background of the experiment, measures of network connectedness and performance in terms of degree centrality, betweenness centrality, closeness centrality, and eigenvector centrality, and the use of the NodeXL software to perform network connectedness calculations.

The article focuses on the feat of Sacramento Solon Neill Sheridan on July 8, 1953, when he raced an Arabian horse and won while homering over the right-field fence in their game against the San Francisco Seals, reportedly the longest home run ever measured. Topics discussed include a brief overview of Sheridan's baseball career, the discovery of his historic home run, and the Plat of Survey report showing the flight of the ball from Edmonds Fields in California to a parked car on Burnett Way.

The article discusses baseball home runs in the late 19th-century Major Leagues. Topics mentioned include the first 48 years of major league baseball from the National Association in 1871 through 1918, what part the home run played in the early game, and the total number of major league home runs hit each year. It explores the possible reasons of the 19th-century peak of home run production in 1890 since 1881.

An essay is presented on a list of baseball's greatest financial milestones, noting the emergence of the 10 million-dollar salary club. Topics discussed include the issues on salary, bonus clauses in Major League Baseball (MLB) contracts, and the two sources the author used to determine salaries, including data through 1985 from the misnamed transaction card files located in the Baseball Hall of Fame and the post-1985 from the annual release of salaries by the MLB Players Association (MLBPA).

The article focuses on the use of pitchers at other positions in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1969 to 2009. Topics discussed include the strict separation of roles between the pitcher and other fielders in modern MLB, the 3 types of settings in which a manager will decide to use a pitcher in a position usually reserved for a fielder, and some of the memorable games where a pitcher was seen playing in the field. It also explores why no more similar incident was recorded from 2000 to 2006.

The article analyzes how baseball is represented in historical institutions and how that analysis has evolved since 1971. Topics discussed include the association of museums with baseball since the early 1970s, the national baseball museums that have been sharing the story of minorities in baseball, and the local baseball museums, including those that focus on one player. It also explores the significant role of baseball museums on education.

The article analyzes long balls hit on Canadian soil by examining the history of the record and the leaders, as well as looking at Canadian baseball players finishing home runs in their homeland. Tables showing progressive leaderboard, career Canadian home runs, Canadian home run hitters, and Canadian hitting home runs in Canada are presented.

The article focuses on the legacy of the late baseball player and Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver. Topics discussed include Weaver's strategy and philosophy on the merits of the three-run home run, the key premise of Weaver's offensive strategy, and the Orioles' sacrifice bunts and attempts and success rate relative to American League average from 1969 to 1982. It also details Orioles' unproductive outs, Weaver's use of the stolen base as a tactic, and his position player substitutions.

The article focuses on baseball-themed board games, such as "National Pastime," "Ethan Allen All-Star Baseball," and "All-Star Baseball," and their dedicated players. Topics discussed include what allowed such games to stay popular, the fanatics of the "Strat-O-Matic" and the "APBA (American Professional Baseball Association)" games, and the difference between Strat and APBA. It also explores the future of the baseball board games.

The article discusses the 40 years of research allocated by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) to correct Lou Gehrig's lifetime Runs Batted In (RBIs). Topics mentioned include the reliability of the RBI information for Gehrig, the consequences of effecting the corrections of the errors in his official RBI record, and the implementation of the corrections. A chronology for Gehrig's lifetime RBI numbers in the various editions of "The Elias Book of Baseball Records" is offered.

The article features the late American baseball player Carl Hubbell, who was known for his feat of striking out the league's five best hitters in the 1934 All-Star Game. Topics discussed include the history behind his moniker "King Carl," Hubbell's screwball pitch, described as the pitcher's equalizer against the platoon advantage, and the most enduring record he set during the New York Giants' seasons of 1936 and 1937. It also details the injury Hubbell received on his elbow in 1938.

The article presents an analysis of shortstops before and during the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) era. Topics discussed include shortstops in the post-World War II era, the first half of the SABR era, and the second half of the SABR era. It concludes that shortstops, relative to league average production, are generally better hitters at present than they were at the time SABR was created in 1971.

The article presents the corrections and completion of missing details in baseball's various records and the era of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Topics discussed include a look at the first players enshrined in baseball's Hall of Fame in 1936 including Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson and Babe Ruth, the modified records of several other players who reached Cooperstown in the next three elections including Eddie Collins, Lou Gehrig and Tris Speaker, and some other notable changes.

The article presents the biographies of seven baseball players who have received the 2011 Henry Chadwick Award for their involvement in baseball research. Topics discussed include the involvement of Ohio University professor Charles C. Alexander in the study of American history and the development of a baseball player database attributed to Sean Forman of Baseball-Reference.com. The contributions of John B. Holway and Clifford S. Kachline are also mentioned.

The article examines the possibility of a long plate appearance in Major League Baseball. Topics discussed include the definition of a place appearance, its completion, and calculation for the probability of a ball, a strike, and a foul which in turn could produce the true probability of a resulting batting line of walks, strikeouts, and the pitch put in play results that a player actually attained. The application of an infinite geometric series is mentioned.