Even in Sports, You Are What You Eat
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.
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Being Mookie Wilson: A Conversation With the Soul of the 1986 New York Mets
On Bill Buckner, Doc Gooden, and the lost art of the triple.
Prophetic Umpires: Expectation Bias and Errors in Baseball
It’s not that what you see is what you get. It’s that what you expect is what you see.
Prediction: The Detroit Tigers Will Get Most Wins This Baseball Season
Mathematician Bruce Bukiet projects most of last year’s division-winning teams will once again be victorious.
A Brief History of America’s Favorite Pastime’s Favorite Pastime
If there's one thing that knits together the history of baseball, it's cheating.
Welcome to Cheating Week
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.
MLB Playoffs Predictions: Dodgers Look Good
Mathematician Bruce Bukiet crunches the numbers, and likes the L.A. Dodgers.
How America Stole Baseball From the United Kingdom
Americans didn't invent baseball. Why do we work so hard to pretend we did?
Major Lessons From the Minor Leagues
There is a measurable economic boost from hosting a minor league baseball team, a newish study finds. What might happen if we mixed in some DNA from English football?
In 2013, MLB Races May Go Down to the Wire
The Detroit Tigers will probably dominate, but the rest of the league might be a toss-up, says statistician Bruce Bukiet.