The Records
Streaks, milestones, and the numbers with asterisk-shaped shadows.
Baseball's history, kept honestly
Baseball History Blog covers the game's past through its record book: what the numbers meant in their own era, and which comparisons across eras hold up.
From 1876 to the pitch clock
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What Is an RBI in Baseball? Meaning & Rules
A batter gets one RBI per qualifying run—not per plate appearance—so one swing can add several; examples also show when runs earn no RBI.
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The Oldest Records in Baseball's Book
Cy Young's 511 wins, the 1899 Spiders' 20-134, Johnny Vander Meer's back-to-back no-hitters — baseball's oldest surviving records and why they'll never fall.
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The Eras
Dead ball, integration, expansion, steroids — how each rewrote the book.
The Stories
What the statistics were quietly recording while history happened.