I got the below request but don't know who is studying this. Anybody have any ideas?
Lyle
I'm looking to do a feature or enterprise story on the decline in stealing of home. I've always thought this was the most exciting play in baseball, but teams or, rather, players seem reluctant to take the risk.
I know someone in SABR had been chronicling this trend, but I wasn't sure whom that person was. I hope you can steer me to him or her.
I got the below request but don't know who is studying this. Anybody have any ideas? Lyle I'm looking to do a feature or enterprise story on the decline in...
Steals of Home were something of a passion for our late, lamented founder, Bob Davids. Certainly Retrosheet data can illuminate us on the trends over the past...
Those of us over about 45 will remember Rod Carew setting a record for steals of home. That record is now held by Ty Cobb...... Stephen Roney President, Allan...
Lyle (et al): I confess. I am doing research on "Steals Of Home" (SOH) by building a mini-database of these events. The project grew out of my research into Ty...
... I suppose those are scores at time of steal. Regarding the different matter of how games end, it should be possible to "cover" many major league games that...
Lyle - ... Though not on this particular subject (decline in the frequencey of SOH) I have been working on documenting the game ending (walk-off) steals of...
http://www.mohawksbaseball.com/newsarticle.asp?ID=278 Hello Jan, Chuck & Mat - Did you happen to see the note to SABR-L regarding a Amsterdam Mohawks vs...
... Well, of the 891 steals of home I found in retrosheet's data, I found found nine that happened on the last event of the game: gameid MIN197209010 ...
... And since I was poking in the database, if anybody cares: Based on the data from retrosheet, this is what the last event reported for each game:...
... Yes. Of course those games were called because of rain. The last recorded play of the game was an IBB though. My query didn't check if the game was...
Here are the details of the previously mentioned walk-off steals of home. ... Rod Carew, Minnesota Twins 5, Cleveland Indians 4 (10), September 1, 1972 ... ...
Thanks to all for the quick response on the steals of home data. I apologize for omitting the name of the person who requested it. It's Justice B. Hill, Senior...
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