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Baseball Research Journal (BRJ), Volume 49 #2 (Paperback)
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Baseball Research Journal (BRJ), Volume 49 #2 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
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Volume 49, issue 2, of SABR's Baseball Research Journal, runs the
gamut of research, from the nineteenth century to events that took
place in 2020. The article that anchors this issue of the journal,
appearing last, is Richard Hershberger's account of the "First
Baseball War," in which the nineteenth-century clash between
leagues contributed to the creation of the reserve system that
suppressed free agency until the late twentieth, while Mary Hums
and her team document MLB's decision to change the name of the
"disabled list" to "injured list," including the advocacy and
rationale behind the change, and an analysis of fan reactions to
it. As always, we have some articles that delve into stats to
enhance our understanding of the game. Among them, Theo Tobel gives
us a breakdown of brushback pitches: do they really intimidate
batters and provide an advantage to the pitcher? Randy Robbins
noticed a statistical quirk in the record of Warren Spahn and it
prompted an examination of one of the game's pitching greats. Will
Melville and Brinley Zabriskie undertake the task of trying to
determine how much benefit, if any, the 2017 Astros derived from
their cheating efforts, while Irwin Nahinsky analyzes the effects
of luck and skill on team success. Ron Backer looks at Lou Gehrig
in a new light-klieg lights, in fact-in his article on Gehrig's
Hollywood career, which like his life and playing career was cut
short by ALS. Charlie Pavitt delves into the fact that a player's
ethnicity can be a predictor for what position he plays in MLB.
Howard M. Wasserman examines Jewish players through the lens of
their performances on Yom Kippur, while Alan Cohen examines one of
the great hitters of all time, Josh Gibson. Because of racial
segregation, Gibson never had the opportunity to play in the major
leagues, but because many Negro League teams did play games in
major league ballparks, we can look at those performances to prove
how prodigious he truly was. An image of Josh Gibson graces the
cover of this issue, in a piece of original art by Gary
Cieradkowski, the creator of the Infinite Baseball Card Set.
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