Baseball Research Journal (BRJ), Volume 45 #2: Fall 2016 Issue

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The flagship publication of the Society for American Baseball Research , the Baseball Research Journal is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed publication presenting the best in SABR member research on baseball. History, biography, economics, physics, psychology, game theory, sociology and culture, records, and many other disciplines are represented to expand our knowledge of baseball as it is, was, and could be played.

In the Fall 2016 issue:

Analyzing the Major Leagues:
The Historical Evolution of the Designated Hitter Rule by John Cronin
The Stallings Platoon Prequel: 1913 by Bryan Soderholm-Difatte
The .700 Club: Blessedly Good Baseball by Douglas Jordan
Baseball Player Won-Lost Records: The Ultimate Baseball Statistic by Tom Thress

Organized Baseball and Baseball Organizations:
Organized Baseball's Night Birth by Mark Metcalf
The International Girls Baseball League by Bill McMahon, Merrie Fiedler & "Nordie" Nordquist
The Great American Pastime : Hollywood, Little League, and the Post-World War II Consensus by Ron Briley

Off the Field:
The Show Girl and the Shortstop: The Strange Saga of Violet Popovich and Her Shooting of Cub Billy Jurges by Jack Bales
A Question of Character: George Davis and the Flora Campbell Affair by Bill Lamb
Chief Bender: A Marksman at the Traps and on the Mound by Robert D. Warrington

Feats and Figures of the Nineteenth Century:
The Young and the Restless: George Wright 1865-1868 by Robert Tholkes
Catcher Duke Farrell's Record Performance by Brian Marshall
Discrepancy in an All-Time MLB Record: Billy Hamilton's 1894 Runs Scored by Herm Krabbenhoft, Keith Carlson, David Newman, and Richard “Dixie” Tourangeau