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By Phil Hecken The Cubs and Brewers will be hooking up today in the third (of nine) throwback games celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Wrigley Field. If you’re not familiar with the celebration, you can read more here and here. We know what...

Welcome to "This Week in SABR!" Click here to view this week's newsletter on the web. Here's what we've been up to as of May 13, 2016: Early registration discount still available for SABR 46 in Miami We hope you'll join us for what promises to be a...

(CNN) — Actor Peter O’Toole died peacefully Saturday in a hospital, his agent Steve Kenis said Sunday. He was 81. O’Toole’s first major film role in the title role of T.E. Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia” in 1962...

April 9 In History 193: Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum.  Severus is the first emperor to ban proselytizing by Jews. 423: Emperor Theodosius II reaffirms the Roman law according to which "No Jew may purchase Christian...

Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947, but he was not the first black ballplayer to play alongside white players in organized baseball. Those who came before Robinson should not be lost to history. Author's Note: I would...