April 17, 2025

Dear Peter:

With an original cover illustration of the Harrisburg Giants outfield designed by SABR member Gary Cieradkowski, we hope you enjoy the e-book edition of the Fall 2024 Baseball Research Journal! Anyone who has subscribed to the print editionshould receive their copy in the mail in the next 2-4 weeks.

Click on a link below to download the PDF, EPUB/Kindle, or MOBI files for the Spring 2025 Baseball Research Journal, Vol. 54, No. 1, to your computer.

• PDF: To download the PDF file for the Spring 2025 Baseball Research Journal, click here (4.5 MB)
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As Gary Cieradkowski writes about his cover artwork, “The Harrisburg Giants had what was supposed to be one of the greatest outfields in history with Fats Jenkins, Oscar Charleston, and Rap Dixon. Because the Harrisburg Giants are not as well-known as the Kansas City Monarchs or Homestead Grays, they often get completely overlooked in history.” You can learn more about the Harrisburg Giants in Jeremy Raff’s article, “The Lancaster Loophole,” in this edition of the BRJ.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NORTHERN NEIGHBORS

• The Toronto Maple Leafs: The Barrow Years, 1900–02, by David Siegel
• Ladies of The Night Game: Toronto’s Lighted Diamonds and the Female Ballplayers Who Pioneered Playing Under the Stars, by Stephen Dame
• Daily Operations in the United States Negro Baseball League, 1945–46, by Christian Trudeau

TWENTIETH CENTURY

• Scoreboard Numbers vs Uniform Numbers: The 1931–34 Detroit Tigers and the Letter of the Law, by Herm Krabbenhoft
• The Lancaster Loophole: Pennsylvania Blue Laws Bring the Harrisburg Giants to Rossmere Base Ball Park, 1925–27, by Jeremy Raff
• Crucial Choices: O’Malley, Dressen, and Reese Rolled the Dice in Brooklyn, by Francis Kinlaw

STATS & ANALYSIS

• Assessing the Accuracy of Runs Created: Comparing Outside and Inside Aggregation Methods, by Joey de Souza White
• Using Z-Scores to Measure Player Performance, by Benjamin Alter
• Infield Hit Model, Part 2: Use the Whole Field, Hit Line Drives, by Donald Slavik
• Josh Gibson’s Place in History: A Statistical Analysis, by Benjamin Alter

WILD WEST

• More than a Sport: Early Developments of Baseball in Lawrence, Kansas, by Jude Butler
• The Original Cactus League, by Robert Schon

EYE AND EAR

• The Impact of Laser Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) on Major League Baseball Batting Performance, by MP Geiss and David Portney
• “It’s Supposed to Be Hard”: Why It’s Harder to Get an Orchestra Job Than to Play Professional Baseball, by Henry Peyrebrune

HENRY CHADWICK AWARD

• Rob Fitts, by Dan Levitt
• Gary Gillette, by Mark Armour
• Richard Malatzky, by John Thorn

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— Cecilia M. Tan
SABR Publications Director

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