The Fall 2019 issue of SABR's Baseball Research Journal features voices old and new in baseball analytics and historical research. 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 by 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. This article examines the club's entry into the 1882 League Alliance [and] the genesis of the team's longstanding nickname "Phillies."



"Our Lady Reporter" Introducing Some Women Baseball Writers, 1900-30 by 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. The headline would often mention the "lady reporter" [including] syndicated articles by Idah McGlone Gibson, an experienced female columnist who absolutely did know something about baseball.



Shifting Expectations: An In-Depth Overview Of Players' Approaches To The Shift Based On Batted-Ball Events by Connelly Doan, MA


This paper will focus more on hitters' and pitchers' approaches to dealing with the shift, rather than merely the outcomes of the shift. It is easy to say that hitters could just bunt or hit to the opposite field when shifted on, but an in-depth overview of shift outcomes based on hard data would be a welcome addition to the discussion. To help fill this void, this paper will... identify patterns in the data regarding both hitters' and pitchers' approaches to the shift.



Contents:



• Community, Defection, and equipo Cuba: Baseball Under Fidel Castro, 1959-93 by Katie Krall



• Baseball Archeology in Cuba: A Trip to Güines by Mark Rucker



• Testing an RPI Ranking System for Canadian University Baseball by George S. Rigakos & Mitchell Thompson



• Time Between Pitches: Cause of Long Games? by David W. Smith



• WAA vs. WAR: Which is the Better Measure for Overall Performance in MLB, Wins Above Average or Wins Above Replacement? by Campbell Gibson, PhD



• Left Out: Handedness and the Hall of Fame by Jon C. Nachtigal, PhD & John C. Barnes, PhD



• Shifting Expectations: An In-Depth Overview of Players' Approaches to the Shift Based on Batted-Ball Events by Connelly Doan, MA



• Why OPS Works by Pete Palmer



• Rating Baseball Agencies: Who is Delivering the Goods? by Barry Krissoff



• Hot Streaks, Screaming Grounders, and War: Conceptual Metaphors in Baseball by Daniel Rousseau



• Did MLB Exist Before the Year 2000? by Bill Nowlin



• Setting the Record Straight on Major League Team Nicknames by Ed Coen



• "Our Lady Reporter" Introducing Some Women Baseball Writers, 1900-30 by Donna L. Halper, PhD



• Baseball and the Great Movie Comedians by Ron Backer



• Carl Lundgren: Cubs Cold Weather King by Art Ahrens



• Beyond the Miracle: The Mets of the Early 1970s by Douglas Jordan, PhD



• Philadelphia in the 1882 League Alliance by Robert D. Warrington

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