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The National Pastime, 2015
The National Pastime, 2015
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Since 2009, The National Pastime has served as SABR's convention-focused publication. Published annually, this research journal provides in-depth articles focused on the respective geographic region where the national convention is taking place in a given year. The SABR 45 convention took place in Chicago, and here are 45 articles on baseball in and around the bat-and-ball crazed Windy City: the 25 that appeared in the souvenir book of the convention plus another 20 articles available in ebook only.
Contents
Introduction by Stuart Shea
Sputtering Towards Respectability: Chicago's Journey to the Big Leagues by Brian McKenna
The Windy City - Collar City Connection:The Curious Relationship of Chicago's and Troy (NY)'s Professional Baseball Teams (1870-82) by Jeff Laing
Mike González:The First Hispanic Cub by Lou Hernández
Bibb Falk: The Only Jockey in the Majors by Matthew M. Clifford
Ted Lyons: 300 Wins-Closer with a Closer? by Herm Krabbenhoft
Mel Almada: The First Hispanic to Homer at Several Historic American League Stadia by Lou Hernández
Andy Pafko: Darling of the 1945 Cubs by Joe Niese
Bill Murray's Prediction by Rob Edelman
The Top 10 Chicago White Sox Games of the 1950s by Stephen D. Boren
Mr. Cub by Joseph Wancho
How Good Was the White Sox' Pitching in the 1960s? by Brendan Bingham
The '67 White Sox: "Hitless" Destiny's Grandchild? by Bryan Soderholm-Difatte
The Chicago White Sox, 1968-70: Three Years in Hell by Sam Pathy
Black Sox on Film by Rob Edelman
If Gil Hodges Managed the Cubs and Leo Durocher the Mets in 1969, Whose "Miracle" Would it Have Been? by Mort Zachter
Split Season 1981, Chicago Style by Jeff Katz
Palmer House Stars by Leslie Heaphy
The Peculiar Professional Baseball Career of Eddie Gaedel by Eric Robinson
When They Were Just Boys: Chicago and Youth Baseball Take Center Stage by Alan Cohen
Stories of the White Sox: Farrell, Lardner, and Algren by James Hawking
Curse of the Billy Goat: An Adaptive Coping Strategy for Cubs Fans by Jeremy Ashton Houska, Ph.D.
Of Black Sox, Ball Yards, and Monty Stratton: Chicago Baseball Movies by Rob Edelman
Memories That Will Never Go-Go by Francis Kinlaw
Chicago Goes Hollywood: The Cubs, Wrigley Field, and Popular Culture by David Krell
Buying the White Sox: A Comic Opera Starring Bill Veeck, Hank Greenberg, and Chuck Comiskey by John Rosengren