The Icons in the Header
The “donate” button allows you to make a donation to help fund the website and the conversion of the story series into this archive. The site is free and open to all visitors. You don’t need a username or password, and I expect to keep it that way as long as folks behave themselves, honor the copyrights, and the donations cover the very minimal costs of the web site.
The magnifying glass icon is the common symbol to start the “search function.”
If you wish to be informed when another story is added to the archive, you can click the “follow” icon in the web site header and you will be given the opportunity to provide your email address to “follow.it” and they will shoot you an email when a new post appears. There is no cost to you for this service. It is paid for by the web site.
The green icon is the symbol for “WhatsApp.” As a personal preference, I do not do links to “Facebook” or “X.” This should not be taken as a desire to censor your use of “Facebook” and “X.”
The purple icon with the “copy symbol” simply copies the web address to your clipboard, making it easy to share a link to a specific story when you wish.
A shortcut to return to the home page of the web site
In full-screen, you can just click “Home” in the header, but with a smaller screen, such as on your phone, you’d have to do two clicks, one to access the menu and then the “Home” option. As an alternative, you can always just click the omnipresent logo “Pages from Baseball’s Past,” and that will take you to the home page.
Trying to copy from or download the PDF of a story?
You can’t. These features are turned off to help prevent copyright abuse.
Best Way to Read a Story on a Phone
Turn the phone sideways to give you more width for your read. If it is still too hard to read, most phones will allow you to use your fingers to magnify the image of the PDF.
“The Modern Rules” Era
Many stories reference a feat relative to whether it occurred under the modern rules or not. The last rule change of massive impact was the foul strike rule, which began in the National League in 1901 and was adopted by the American League in 1903 as part of the peace accord between the two leagues.
“Power Percentage”
Some stories will refer to the statistic “Power Percentage” which is known more commonly today as “Isolated Power,” Before others started using this statistic, I always called it “power percentage,” which seems far superior to me than “Isolated Power,” and has a nifty easy to recognize abbreviation of “Pow%”. You have to accept it as one of my idiosyncrasies that I will not stop my practice of referring to it as “power percentage.”