Archive for February 2005

Del Pratt and Larry Doyle. Tilly Walker and Cy Williams. George Burns and George Burns. (No, not that George Burns.) They’re all here! Check your spitter at the door and come on in.

Steve takes a close look at the decade of the 1910s, and the transition between the Deadball and live ball eras. We see that there were quite a number of dazzling hitting performances obscured by spit, slime, scratches, and stains.

A Hardball Times exclusive. We catch up with a friendly old arm that’s got quite a story to tell.

Steve shines a light on a year that is little remembered today, but was chock full of odd and interesting events.

Steve wraps up his adjusted-stat virtual history of 1931 through 1941, this time examining things from the perspective of the career achievements of the best players of the era. He encounters a few surprises along the way.

Would you buy this pitch? Really? May we appreciate some of the amazing true stories that are all around us.

Steve conducts the “careful scoring-environment context assessment” look at the achievements of the best players of the 1930s that he challenged himself to do last April. You might want to print this one out: it’s mighty hefty!

No other GM in the land was more bold and clever than he. May the great deeds of Sir Cedric be forever known to all!

This excursion will be first-class all the way. We’re taking a ride with the gentleman whose name itself has come to be the brand name that means Best: the Cadillac, the Tiffany, the Everest among all pitchers.

Completing the two-parter, Steve gives us a look at how the 1966, 1967, and 1968 seasons might have been without the changed definition of the strike zone. Wow, ’68 was really a low-scoring year.