The BJR is produced annually by the Society for American Baseball Research. Several back issues are available from a new Web site.
While the stories are usually quite good (written by SABR members), the presentation is a bit clunky. In this era of digitization, one would imagine they could “shoot” the original pages (with illustrations). Also, not every issue isavailable at this point. Still, it’s an interesting resource and comes with a search function.
From the Web site:
One of the primary initial goals of SABR was to establish a publication where members could get research published and shared with like-minded students of baseball.The Baseball Research Journal was launched in 1972 with 19 articles, including “Ty Cobb Steals Home,” “The Pinch Grand Slam,” “Tigers Best at Triple Plays,” and “East Meets West in Negro Games.” The Journal, combined with the newsletter The SABR Bulletin and a membership directory for networking purposes, formed SABR’s publications program. In 1982, SABR launched The National Pastime, a review of baseball history. It complements The Baseball Research Journal, featuring longer articles and more photos.
During the 1980s, SABR began issuing occasional books, and by the 1990s it had established a tradition of providing at least one and sometimes two books each year as part of the membership benefit.
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