Bingles, knuckleballs and ‘Beer Barrel Polka’ – hundreds of forgotten works showcase the eclectic world of baseball scholarship
(STATE COLLEGE, PENN.) Today’s fans may associate baseball research with cutting edge analytics. But long before data-driven tools like Statcast and FanGraphs, university students were conducting research about baseball.
About three years ago, I came across a 1988 article published by the Society for American Baseball Research. Written