Original Analytics by Richard Hershberger

Original Analytics

By Richard Hershberger Called Pitches Early Evidence on Base Stealing Judgment! Pitchers Covering First Sliding The Backstop The Play-Testing of Early Base Ball Rule Modifications, version 1.0 Very Early (pre-1857) Rules on Base Advancement After Caught Fly Balls

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Bill Humber Bob Tholkes Bruce Allardice Corky Gaskell Debbie Shattuck Howard Burman Jeffrey Kittel Larry McCray John and Kay Price Mark Brunke Richard Hershberger Rob Loeffler Tom Gilbert

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Very Early (pre-1857) Rules on Base Advancement After Caught Fly Balls posted 19 June 2018

Did Runners Have to Tag Up?

Early Evidence on Base Stealing posted 23 February 2016

The Play-Testing of Early Base Ball Rule Modifications, version 1.0 posted 2 January 2016

Judgment! posted 23 July 2014

At first, most umpiring calls were only made on appeal, and then things changed (7 pages)

Called Pitches posted 23 July 2014

When Did Umpires Start Calling Balls and Strikes? (8 pages)

Pitchers Covering First posted 23 July 2014

When did pitchers start covering first base on grounders to the right side? (2 pages)

The Backstop posted 23 July 2014

Were Foul-Ground Barriers Always Part of Base Ball? (3 pages)

Sliding posted 1 October 2013

Evidence on Sliding in Early Base Ball Accounts (4 pages)