There is considerable interest in two consecutive game streak records in baseball, namely,
the celebrated 56-game hitting streak of Joe DiMaggio and the less famous 84-games …

On March 30, 2008, Samuel Arbesman and Steven Strogatz had their article" A Journey to
Baseball's Alternate Universe" published in The New York Times. They simulated baseball's …

We examine Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak and look at its likelihood, using a
number of simple models. And it turns out that, contrary to many people's expectations, an …

My study of long hitting streaks for 1957 through 2006, however, seems to show that the
actual number of long hitting streaks in baseball is not the same as what a coin-tossing …

IN AN ARTICLE IN THE 2008 ISSUE of The Baseball Research Journal, Trent McCotter
argued that hitting streaks are achieved more frequently than if there were no" hot hand" …

We appreciate Albright's contribution to the growing literature on deviations from simple
Bernoulli models in sports. His analysis of baseball hitting streaks parallels that of Tver-sky …

This article deals with an interesting question among baseball fans: is there statistical
evidence for streakiness in the performance of baseball hitters? When I was growing up …

There have been more hitting streaks in Major League Baseball than we would expect. All
batting lines of MLB hitters from 1957-2006 were randomly permuted 10,000 times and the …

Can one understand the statistics of wins and losses of baseball teams? Are their
consecutive-game winning and losing streaks self-reinforcing or can they be described …

If it weren't for eBay, I never would have written this article. While browsing around the mega
auction site I discovered a 1995 BRJ for sale. I entered a last-minute bid (yes, I'm one of …