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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Shibe Park: Baseball’s First Steel-and-Concrete Palace
The history of Shibe Park, from its 1909 opening and Athletics dynasties to Negro League games, the spite fence and its final Phillies season.
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Squeeze Bunt: How Baseball’s Riskiest Sacrifice Works
A squeeze bunt tries to score a runner from third. Here is how safety and suicide squeezes differ, how they are scored and how the play evolved.
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Pete Crow-Armstrong Was Not Yet in the 40-40 Club
At the September 15 checkpoint, PCA stood at 42 home runs and 37 stolen bases—three steals short. A dated tracker traces the chase.
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What Is a Good Batting Average in Baseball?
Modern MLB benchmarks put about .250 near average, around .275 as good and .300 as elite; era, sample size, OBP and power add context.
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Aroldis Chapman’s Relief Pitcher Strikeout Record
He passed Hoyt Wilhelm with No. 1,364; the mark counts regular-season strikeouts recorded in relief, excluding postseason Ks and starts.
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Dead ball, integration, expansion, steroids — how each rewrote the book.
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