Baseball Research Journal (BRJ), Volume 48, #1: Spring 2019

The flagship publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Baseball Research Journal is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed publication presenting the best in SABR member research on baseball. History, biography, economics, physics, psychology, game theory, sociology and culture, records, and many other disciplines are represented to expand our knowledge of baseball as it is, was, and could be played.

The Spring 2019 Baseball Research Journal includes a multitude of articles that study a diverse array of baseball-related subjects, including:

PEOPLE AND PAST ERAS

Sweet!: 16-Year-Old Players in Major League History by Chuck Hildebrandt

Playing with the Boys: Gender, Race, and Baseball in Postwar America by A.J. Richard

All The Duckys In A Row: In Search of the Real Ducky Holmes by Joan Wendl Thomas

An Ever-Changing Story: Exposition and Analysis of Shoeless Joe Jackson's Public Statements on the Black Sox Scandal by Bill Lamb

ANALYSIS

An Examination of MLB Play Call Challenges by Anne C. Marx Scheuerell and David B. Marx

File and Trial: Examining Valuation and Hearings in MLB Arbitration by Navneet S. Vishwanathan

Team Batting Average: A Comprehensive Analysis by  Douglas Jordan and David Macias

World Series Game Situation Winning Probabilities: Follow-Up by Douglas Jordan

American League or National League: Who Owns New York City? By  Dusty Turner and Gabriel Costa

TURN OF THE CENTURY

Philadelphia in the 1881 Eastern Championship Association by Robert D. Warrington

Barney Dreyfuss Buys Pittsburgh by Bob Bailey

How Many Hits Did Ty Cobb Make in His Career? What Is His Lifetime Batting Average? by Herm Krabbenhoft

Hits in Consecutive At-Bats: Investigating the Nineteenth Century by Brian Marshall

CHADWICK HONOREES

Allan Roth by Andy McCue

Leonard Koppett by Dan Levitt

Rob Neyer by Mark Armour

• The National Pastime, 2019: Pacific Ghosts: San Diego Baseball History (National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History Book 49)
• The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
• Baseball Gods in Scandal: Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, and the Dutch Leonard Affair
• The National Pastime, 2018: Steel City Stories (National Pastime : a Review of Baseball History)
• The New York Yankees of the 1950s: Mantle, Stengel, Berra, and a Decade of Dominance
• Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
• Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
• For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball
• Homegrown: How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up
• Play Hungry: The Making of a Baseball Player