Some recent highlights:

A seminal baseball artifact, the “Laws of Base Ball” authored by Doc Adams, resurfaced after Doc’s bid for enshrinement fell 2 votes short in 2015.

This compelling artifact surely establishes that Daniel Lucius ‘Doc’ Adams is unequivocally a key Founding Father of baseball and deserves to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It would seem that this evidence, written in Doc’s own hand, should convince ALL of the members of the Classic Baseball Era Committee to finally acknowledge Doc’s place in baseball history.

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.

“Back on the Auction Block, a 19th-Century Document Essential to Baseball’s Rules”, Richard Sandomir, New York Times (February 28, 2016)

“The Making of Baseball’s Magna Carta”, Our Game (2/28/16)

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.

To find out more, check out the following link:

The Laws of Base Ball

2021: Doc Adams was shockingly and inexplicably left off the 2022 Early Baseball Era ballot.

A groundswell of support for Doc’s enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall of Fame continues to grow from historians, vintage base ball community, and baseball fans with several events plnned for 2024.

Hall of Fame recognition still eludes Adams; however, he is eligible for the 2025 Classic Baseball ballot.

This is part 6 of a 6-part series. Part 1: Preface, Part 2: Base Ball Pioneer. Part 3: Base Ball Player, Part 4: Base Ball Executive, Part 5: Retirement.