This baseball research gem may be the best example I’ve ever seen of what the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) is all about: fantastic new research that embraces collaboration, is wonderfully interesting, and just plain fun. It’s no surprise that it comes from the great Mark Armour.

Disappointed to see that the 1994 Ted Williams baseball card set “honored” Bud Fowler with a card featuring a photo of Joe Miller (not Bud Fowler) of the 1898 Page Fence Giants. Arrgh!

I thought that I had seen most every photo of 3'7" Eddie Gaedel (sabr.org/bioproj/pers...), but this one (with baseball clown Max Patkin) was new to me.

Quick correction: The newspaper is "The Hiogo News."

Breaking news: Newly Identified Newspaper Article Pushes Earliest Date of Japanese Baseball Back to July 1869. Important research by Rob Fitts and Yoichi Nagata. www.robfitts.com/post/newly-i...

Important discovery: One of the earliest-known on-field baseball photos shows two teams (Potomac of Washington DC and Excelsior of Baltimore) on June 6, 1860, the day they played near the White House ... likely seen in the background. h/t Craig Brown at tinyurl.com/4p92pce2

Wonderful photo of baseball player Lefty Leid of the Portland (Maine) Green Stockings, 1925.

Yep. The off-season has long been a time when baseball players looked to sign for big dollars. This poem was published on January 30, 1884, in "Puck."