"Psychology and "The Babe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4002123 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfred H Fuchs (Bowdoin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-165 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(199821)34:2<153::aid-jhbs3>3.3.co;2-k |
| PMID | 9580977 |
| OpenAlex | W4236705258 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
Psychologists and baseball players were among those Americans who formed professional associations in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Psychologists used laboratory tasks to quantify mental and behavioral processes while sportswriters and baseball organizers measured individual and team performance. The most popular baseball player of the 1920s, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, possessed superior batting skills that were evident in the statistical indices of baseball performance. In 1921, he was brought to the psychological laboratory at Columbia University to perform standard laboratory tasks in an effort to discover the basis for his success in hitting home runs and to suggest the potential of tests for identifying future baseball stars. Baseball's addiction to quantitative indices of performance was thus brought together with a new science devoted to quantitative assessment and a desire to make such assessments useful. The attempt to analyze the basis of Ruth's batting skills is part of the history of applied psychology, sport psychology, and popular interest in the science of psychology.
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Army Alpha, Army Brass, and the Search for Army Intelligence
Lightner Witmer
Introduction
Psychologists on site
Some Thoughts on the Last Quarter Century in Psychology
The New Developments in Psychology in the Past Quarter Century
How Superstition Won and Science Lost
The Origins of Behaviorism
Psychological Testing and American Society, 1890-1930
James McKeen Cattell
The servants of power
Contributions to the history of psychology--1916-1921
American Science in the Age of Jackson
Coca-Cola, caffeine, and mental deficiency
The professionalization of American psychology, 1870-1917
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Telling likely stories
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |