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This paper summarizes the results of the Baseball Memories Research Study launched under the umbrella of SABR's Baseball Memories Chartered Community, studying the effects of these programs on the quality of life for participants and their caregivers.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"The Doomed Pilots of 1969: The Results of Advice Ignored\" by Andy McCue\u003cbr\u003e In the early 1960s, Seattle's city fathers were confident their city was an attractive and growing market. In 1961, the city commissioned a Stanford Research Institute study to assess what was needed to gain major league sports, especially baseball. The think tank's study came back cautiously positive. Attracting major league baseball was possible, the report said, if the city could meet three conditions. It would need to provide a major league quality stadium and the team would need to find support from both the political\/financial leadership and the fan base. 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Don't miss George Thompson's historic discovery of a baseball reference in the New York press of 1823; our three grouped pieces relevant to the hundredth anniversary of the American League; or Jim Smith's pictorial appreciation of Hall-of-Fame Chicago sportswriter Ed Munzel. You'll find other offerings that incorporate medieval art, the American Civil War, a president, a player who just doesn't want to talk about it, dignity and incivility, a pitching professor, and a Battalion of Death. And there's more: on ballparks, on tours, on forgotten players and their forgotten feats. On what-ifs and how-comes. 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Throughout the Caribbean basin \"beisbol\" enjoys equal status as the ordained national game.  This Olympic year—in which baseball first (and at long last) debuts as a medal sport—seems, then, a most appropriate occasion to focus the attention of SABR scholars upon the world baseball movement. Even major league baseball—long a bastion of provincialism—now looks pragmatically in that very direction. Major League Baseball International Partners has recently been created by MLB, NBC and Pascoe Nally (a leading British sports marketing firm) to regulate broadcast and promotion of the international game. The International Baseball Association, based in Indianapolis, has been actively spreading the world baseball message for more than a decade with clinics and tournaments held around the globe.  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In this issue researchers tackle some of the hot issues of 2019, including analysis of defensive shifts, time of game, and comparing the metrics WAR and WAA. Photo historian Mark Rucker presents archival photos of one of Cuba's lost ballparks, matched with his own modern photos of the site.  This is the 48th year of publication for the Baseball Research Journal and this issue includes two contributors who were both in volume two, published in 1973, Art Ahrens and Pete Palmer. Ahrens delves into the life and career of Chicago Cubs hurler Carl Lundgren while Palmer revisits the history and rationale behind OPS and why it persists as a popular measure of offensive output.   Excerpts:   Philadelphia in the 1882 League Alliance  Robert D. Warrington  Histories of the Philadelphia Phillies portray the club’s admission to the National League (NL) as a straightforward and swift process.... The facts tell a different tale. Philadelphia’s journey to NL membership was complicated and protracted. The team’s participation in the 1882 League Alliance was a crucial step toward major-league status, and Alfred J. Reach’s enthusiasm for joining the NL may not have been as unbridled as depicted by some authors. This article examines the club’s entry into the Alliance, its 1882 season, and how the transition from the Alliance to the NL unfolded. It also investigates the genesis of the team’s longstanding nickname “Phillies” and questions the accuracy of the oft-told tale of how it became associated with the franchise.   “Our Lady Reporter” Introducing Some Women Baseball Writers, 1900–30  Donna L. Halper, PhD  Nearly all news and sports reporters of the early 1900s were male [and] sending a woman ... to cover a ballgame from the “feminine point of view” was considered a jolly gimmick. 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As Michael Haupert writes in \"The Business of Being the Babe,\" \"Babe Ruth is frequently lauded as the greatest player in Major League Baseball history, and arguably the first true superstar athlete. Ruth transcended the game of baseball, and with the aid of agent Christy Walsh, he profited tremendously from that transcendence. Whether barnstorming, making movies, or modeling underwear, Ruth had a Midas touch that allowed his income to exceed even his famously outsized spending habits.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Third Things First--Carl Zamloch and the Brief History of Reversible Baseball\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e by Dan Schoenholz\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On February 15, 1928, the University of California baseball squad took on a local semi-pro team by the name of the Ambrose Tailors in an early-season exhibition game. \"[A] crowd of 500 fans, two motion picture cameras, and four newspaper photographers\" made the trek to West Field on the Berkeley campus to watch the action... a field trial of Coach Carl Zamloch's proposed revision to the rule books, what he called \"reversible\" baseball. What exactly was reversible (also sometimes referred to as \"left-handed\" or \"ambidextrous\") baseball? Simply put, batters were given the option of running to either first or third base after putting the ball in play.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Did Batters of Long Ago Learn During a Game?\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e by Jay Wigley\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Modern baseball analysis has established without a doubt that the longer a pitcher stays in the game, the better the batters will perform against him. Beginning in 1996, analysts evaluated the starting lineup's plate appearances and later coined an acronym for the rule: TTOP, for the \"Times Through (the) Order Penalty.\" That is, \"As the game goes on, the hitter has a progressively greater advantage over the starting pitcher.\" Has this TTOP always been there? This article examines whether Deadball Era batters improved their performance against the starting pitcher in the same way as their modern counterparts. Using Retrosheet data for the seasons 1916-2019, we will see that while Deadball batters also learned their opposing pitcher during a game, the pattern of their learning was different.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Black Swans in Baseball: The Case of the Unexpected MVP Season\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e by Douglas Jordan, PhD\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The definition of \"black swan\" used in this paper is that the player wins an MVP award without having been recognized in a previous season for any aspect of his performance: no previous awards or All-Star selections. An MVP winning season is very special. Not only does the player have to have a historically excellent season, but it has to be a better season than any other great player of his era. 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Throughout baseball's hidebound history, rebels and mavericks have emerged to challenge the status quo in the sport and the wider society, none more so than Bouton. His book \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBall Four\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e ultimately changed baseball, the sports media, and American literature. During his playing days, Bouton spoke out against the Vietnam War, South African apartheid, the exploitation of players by greedy owners, and the casual racism of the teams and his fellow players. When his baseball career ended, he continued to use his celebrity as a platform against social injustice. Fifty years after \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBall Four\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e's publication and now two years after Bouton's death, Robert Elias and Peter Dreier look back at the legacy.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"When the Fans Didn't Go Wild\" by J. Furman Daniel, III \u0026amp; Elliott Fullmer\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e While the circumstances of the 2020 MLB season were far from ideal, it did present a unique research opportunity. Home-field advantage has long been observed in all major team sports, including baseball. Over the past several decades, researchers have sought to explain this persistent phenomenon. While multiple explanations have been advanced, the most common centers on the effect of attending crowds. Cheering (or booing) fans, the argument goes, affect the performance of players or umpires, leading to advantages for the home team. Because the 2020 MLB season was played without crowds, we are able to test the impact of fans on game outcomes through this unique natural experiment.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Impact of the Varying Sac-Fly Rules on Batting Champs, 1931-2019\" by Herm Krabbenhoft\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The back-and-forth character of the sacrifice fly rule (i.e., at-bat or no at-bat) over the course of the twentieth century has resulted in some interesting \"What if?\" situations. For instance, one of baseball's oldest (and at-one-time highly revered) batting metrics is batting average, with the player with the highest batting average being regarded as the batting champion of his league. But which players would have won baseball's batting crowns if the rule had been consistent? What if the current sacrifice fly rule had been in effect for the 1931-53 period? Who would have won the batting titles, then?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"'Country' Base Ball in the Boom of 1866,\" by Robert Tholkes\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As baseball spread throughout the United States after the Civil War, not every newspaper was supportive of the notion. \"Violent exercise,\" reported the \u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e, would lead to \"the production of fevers and bowel diseases.\" The \u003ci\u003eRaleigh Daily Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e disapproved of Southerners spending time on amusements, noting that \"Intellect, energy, frugality and hard labor will raise the South, and nothing else can.\" And as incidents of Sunday ballplaying proliferated, stiff opposition was raised by the Sabbatarians and other religious groups, like the State Street Congregational Church of Brooklyn's Missionary Society. The Society's diatribe warned that the game had turned from \"a reasonable exercise into a moral contagion...insidiously diffusing and infusing itself into the minds and brains of thousands upon thousands of our young American people, from thirty years of age downward to little children...exhibiting a reckless abandon and mad ecstasy.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Additional articles reexamine Hank Aaron's home run record, the career of Al Kaline, and the uncanny walk-off prowess of Ryan Zimmerman. One study looks at whether the perception that PED use prolonged MLB careers is correct. 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Was the name an invention of his father's, meant to be a historical or Biblical reference of some kind? In this issue, Dr. William \"Ron\" Cobb debunks the spurious explanations given by previous chroniclers as to the origin of the name, and offers insight into Cobb family history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eALSO IN THIS ISSUE:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"More Relief Pitchers Belong in the Hall of Fame: Which Ones?\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eby Elaina and John Pakutka\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJane Forbes Clark, Chairman of the Board of Directors of The National Baseball Hall of Fame, reminds us each year on inudction day that the Hall contains the top 1% of major-league players. But that 1% is not evenly distributed across eras or positions. If the \"best 1%\" standard were applied to the subset of relief pitchers we study in this article, 20 to 30 of them would be in the Hall of Fame. Only nine have won induction. Relief pitchers generate about 10% of the total WAR each year, but constitute only 3% of Hall of Famers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Balancing Starter and Bullpen Workloads in a Seven-Game Postseason Series\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eby David J. Gordon, MD, PhD\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn general, the strategy of routinely removing a starting pitcher in the fifth or sixth inning when the batting order turns over for the third time may win some games by rescuing starters from the Third Time Through the Order Penalty (TTOP), but it leaves a shortfall of innings that must be covered in a seven-game series, leading to overexposure of a limited pool of relievers. The deleterious effect of repeatedly using relievers--an increase of as much as .076 in wOBA--substantially outweighs the effect the TTOP on starters (approximately a .030 increase in wOBA). 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And with the right formula and attitude, surprise teams like the 1894 Orioles and 1961 Reds can leap from the second division to the pennant. Whole communities can come together in support of the local ballclub in times of need, as happened in Amsterdam, N.Y., in 1942, but the pressures of the pennant race can also cause some performers to do strange things, like Flint Rhem's allegations of kidnapping in 1930. Promising youngsters like Christy Mathewson and Rube Waddell often struggle before emerging as stars, while proven performers like Hack Miller may find their careers derailed by changing managerial strategy. But even after their fabled skills have faded, some old heroes are able to stay in the game as managers, executives, or, like Harry Heilmann, as broadcasters.  Although baseball's continuity is vital in explaining its stature as our national pastime, the game is constantly, if subtly, changing. It took pioneers like Dickey Pearce to define how the game is played both on offense and defense. And an examination of the 1901 Boston Americans reveals differences in nearly all aspects of the game. Yet not all apparent innovations are new. Indeed, the first midget pinch-hitter was used in 1905, not 1951 as generally believed.  At its best baseball teachers us larger lessons of life. Batboys take their clubhouse experiences into the outside world with a greater understanding of humanity. And one former batboy and amateur club organizer had gone on to world renown as an historian of the game. Bobo Newsom's brilliance in the face of personal tragedy in 1940 aroused the admiration of the entire nation, not just that of the fans. 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It is a readable and compelling rebuttal to the authors, coaches and players who have perpetuated the myth. Goodness gracious! It wasn't the players' fault that the 1962 Mets lost 120 games: it was management. Keith Olbermann points the finger and pen at Casey and the front office in his amusing indictment of drafts and trades made and not made. He convinced me. But I didn't need any convincing even before reading novelist Darryl Brock's short piece. I think that every reader will agree with him: at most baseball games the decibel sound level can be extraordinarily high. Showing my colors, no issue of The National Pastime would be complete without an article on the Cubs, and this one is no exception. Richard Puerzer offers up a lengthy account of one of the unique and weirder baseball management decisions: the rotating college of coaches. 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