That’s not me saying it, though. It’s the WaPo’s Gene Weingarten: Here I am at the annual convention of the Society for American Baseball Research, or SABR, an acronym the group wisely chose over SWORD, for Statistics-Worshiping White Old Retired Dudes. This room is definitely pale and male and pretty long in the tooth, but […]

Continuing last week’s countdown, Jim brings us his top 10 second-half collapses in the divisonal era.

Wouldn’t you reach down a little bit deeper if you were a starting pitcher with 19 losses to your name?

Richard celebrates his return to regular column work after a brief summer vacation by looking back at notables whose birthdays were his first week back.

One of Bruce Markusen’s favorite nicknames is the subject of this week’s entry from the birthplace of baseball. Feel free to let out a Tarzan yell, if you’d like.

The team wrecks that people chose to see, and the quality teams they overlooked.

In which we witness the unloading of some very big lumber near the Lake Erie shore.

I haven’t linked to Scott Simkus’ excellent blog for a while, but for those who don’t know or have forgotten, Scott does a lot — and I mean a lot — of cool historical stuff, particularly with the Negro Leagues. Today he has something fun: contemporaneous newspaper accounts of Josh Gibson’s bg hits: To follow, […]

Guest contributor Jim Anderson recounts the biggest second-half flops of the divisional era (1969-2008)

Here is some stuff that Chris would’ve put in his upcoming book Evaluating Baseball’s Managers, had he thought about it before submitting the manuscript to the publisher.