Baseball

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The outliers are basketball aficionados, who tend to lean leftward.

The World Series champion's gesture toward a Japanese opponent signals a larger problem with racism in Latin American countries.

What does fandom look like in the home city of Canada’s only Major League Baseball team?

When we treat people as collections of statistics, we ignore important aspects of their humanity.

A mathematical model says the Washington Nationals will win the most games in Major League Baseball this season.

To cheer for a team, or a sport, is to become part of a larger social phenomenon. Food is another—important—part of that shared identity.

On Bill Buckner, Doc Gooden, and the lost art of the triple.

It’s not that what you see is what you get. It’s that what you expect is what you see.

Mathematician Bruce Bukiet projects most of last year’s division-winning teams will once again be victorious.

If there's one thing that knits together the history of baseball, it's cheating.

Never cheated before? Then this probably isn't your bag—and you're probably not human—but for everyone else, we'll be publishing stories about bending, breaking, and totally ignoring the rules all week long.

Mathematician Bruce Bukiet crunches the numbers, and likes the L.A. Dodgers.

Americans didn't invent baseball. Why do we work so hard to pretend we did?

The Detroit Tigers will probably dominate, but the rest of the league might be a toss-up, says statistician Bruce Bukiet.