On March 31, 1845 Doc Adams’ father replied to a letter from his son. Below is an interesting excerpt from that letter. Unfortunately, the transcribed letter prior to this is dated June, 1844, so there is no way of knowing … Continue reading →
In this last chapter of my test drive of Bing’s artificial intelligence search engine, I decided to ask it to write a couple of songs about Marjorie Adams, Doc Adams’ greatest champion. Here are two songs of different styles composed … Continue reading →
On March 26, 1862, Doc tendered his resignation from the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club. I shall not be able to attend the meeting of the Club this evening, and furthermore feel compelled to tender my resignation of membership. I do … Continue reading →
Not long ago I received an email from Tetsuro Tanino, a staffwriter for a Japanese newspaper, the The Tokyo Shimbun. He was “in the process of researching baseball shortstop and learned that Daniel Adams was the world’s first shortstop.” He … Continue reading →
In this latest installment from the new artificial intelligence powered Bing, for fun I thought I’d check out its creative nature and ask it to write a poem and a song for Doc Adams1. Feel free to comment on which … Continue reading →
Bing, is introducing a new web search engine that can help you find information and answers on the internet. It is a web search engine that can also chat with you and generate various types of content such as poems, … Continue reading →
On March 10, 1858 the 2nd Base Ball convention was held in New York. The chairman named the following committees: On Rules: D.L. Adams, C. Place, Jr., T.G. Voorhis, G. Van Cott, T.F. Jackson, W.A. Sears, Francis Pidgeon, W. Cauldwell, … Continue reading →
On March 7, 2023, Fox News recalled 166th anniversary of the first national convention of base ball players. In the article, “On this day in history, March 7, 1857, baseball adopts nine players, nine innings as standard of competition“, The … Continue reading →