Ever wonder whether Tiger Woods in his prime would have beaten Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, or Jack Nicklaus in their primes? And could any of them have beaten Babe Zaharias? Obviously, if Bobby Jones
Babe Ruth, in his first season with the Yankees in 1920, was on pace to break the single-season home run record. In August Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was beaned by a pitch thrown by the Yankees’ Ca
"Picking up where Michael Lewis left off in Moneyball, he addresses the central questions of risk, reward, and value---on the field and off---and reveals what it takes to win."---John Thorn, editor of
An in-depth account of the 1897 pennant race describes the cutthroat, season-long rivalry between the Baltimore Orioles, known as the dirtiest team in baseball, and the Boston Beaneaters, a competitio
Not only was it probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history, it was also a struggle to define how baseball would be played. Game of Brawl re-creates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle
The National Pastime offers baseball history available nowhere else. Each fall this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often su
