In 2015, Marjorie Adams was interviewed on WBUR’s “Only a Game” about her great-grandfather, baseball pioneer, Doc Adams.

Doc Adams: 19th Century Ballplayer, 21st Century Hall of Famer? (article)

In baseball, there are rules. The distance between bases is 90 feet. Nine players on the field. Nine-inning games. And everyone knows: three strikes and you’re out.

But there was a time when those rules hadn’t been established, and into that time came a guy named Doc Adams. This week, the baseball Hall of Fame announced that Adams will have his first chance for induction under the Pre-Integration Era Committee ballot. His great-granddaughter Marjorie Adams has spent the past four years working toward this day and she joined Bill Littlefield.

“Doc Adams: 19th Century Ballplayer, 21st Century Hall Of Famer?”, Only A Game, WBUR

Listen to the interview: