Yearly Archives: 2020

“Laws Of Base Ball” Sell For $3,263,246

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On April 24, 2016, the last hours of the auction for the “Laws of Base Ball” authored by Doc Adams lived up to its billing and did not disappoint as the closing bid came in at $3,263,246 setting a new record for the highest priced baseball document. “Adams’s hand in the sport’s early rule-making is not a revelation; instead, it is the physical record of his central role memorialized in the three surviving pages of his document.” This compelling artifact surely establishes that Daniel Lucius ‘Doc’ Adams is unequivocally a key Founding Father of baseball and deserves to be enshrined … Continue reading →

Jay Jaffe (Fan Graphs) Expresses Support

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Jay Jaffe of Fan Graphs recently expressed his support (again) for the induction of Doc Adams into the National Hall of Fame. He also made a good point back in January. Here’s some thoughts from Jay Jaffe in Sports Illustrated back in December 2015: Doc Adams, pioneer Roll over, Abner Doubleday, and tell Alexander Cartwright the news. No less an authority than MLB official historian John Thorn called Daniel Lucius Adams “first among the Fathers of Baseball” in a 1993 essay for Total Baseball and “the most significant figure in the early history of baseball” in his 2011 book Baseball … Continue reading →

Doc Adams and the Knickerbockers

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Here’s a sampling of Doc Adam’s executive history with the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club. Extracts from “Book of American Pastimes, Containing a History of the Principal Base Ball, Cricket, Rowing and Yachting Clubs of the United States”, Charles A. Peverelly, 1866

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Baseball in the Time of Cholera (John Thorn)

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A couple of weeks ago, we shared some information on Dr. Daniel Lucius Adams (Doc Adams) contributions during the New York Cholera epidemic of 1854. In his Our Game Blog, John Thorn (the official historian for MLB) provided context of the mid-1800s, New York epidemics on March 22 in “Baseball in the Time of Cholera“.

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Sorry For The Inconvenience

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Just a quick update. Just a couple of weeks ago we shared about Doc’s efforts during the New York Cholera outbreak of 1854 while we now are dealing with the current COVID-19 epidemic. Doc and today’s first responders and those on the front lines put themselves at risk for the rest of us. Well, during this crisis, it seems that the rate of website hacking has increased dramatically. While dealing with the war on COVID-19, we’ve also had to fight a small battle here at Doc Adams Base Ball. We experienced a hack that caused our Google results website links … Continue reading →

Doc Adams Base Ball Card?

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Yes, there is a Doc Adams baseball card, produced by Ars Longa. Ars Longa is the Latin translation of a phrase from an aphorism written by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. The aphorism contains the phrase: ars longa, vita brevis, which is commonly translated as “Art is long, Life is short.”

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