Auction Begins for Doc Adams’ “Laws of Base Ball”

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The auction for baseball’s ‘Magna Carta’ starts today including the seminal baseball artifact, the “Laws of Base Ball” authored by Doc Adams. The bidding closes on Saturday, April 23. “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 in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Coming up merely 2 votes short of election in the balloting conducted … Continue reading →

Compelling Doc Adams Landmark Baseball Artifact Re-surfaces

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A seminal baseball artifact, the “Laws of Base Ball” authored by Doc Adams, has re-surfaced and is up for auction. “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 in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Coming up merely 2 votes short of election in the balloting conducted last December, it would seem that this evidence, written … Continue reading →

Happy New Year From DocAdamsBaseBall.org

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Overall, 2015 was a very exciting year: The Annual Old Base Ball Festival at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, was renamed in Doc Adams’ honor. Doc Adams was named to the 2016 Pre-Integration Era Ballot and for the FIRST time was considered for enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Although he was not elected, he was the top vote-getter receiving 10 of the required 12 votes, missing by just 2 votes. This was disappointing, however, it must be looked at in the proper context. Going into 2015, not many people other than those who study the history of the … Continue reading →

More Well Known, But Still Overlooked

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Today, December 7, 2015,  the Pre-integration Era Committee announced the results of the voting on the 10 candidates on the 2016 ballot at the MLB Winter Meetings. Candidates needed to receive 12 of 16 votes (75%) for election. The committee failed to elect any one of the 10 candidates. Doc Adams received the highest vote total,  just 2 shy of the required votes required for election. This was Doc’s first time appearing on a Hall of Fame ballot. Although he was not elected THIS time, being the top vote getter, so close to election, was a major accomplishment. As recently … Continue reading →

It’s Decision Day!!!

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Today, the National Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the candidates that have been selected by the Pre-Integration Era Committee for enshrinement in the Hall. Doc Adams is one of 10 candidates appearing on the ballot. If named on 75% of the ballots cast, he will earn election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 24, 2016, along with any electees who emerge from the 2016 Baseball Writers’ Association of America election. Live Coverage: Pre-Integration Era Committee Election Results on the MLB Network starting at 11:00 AM. We all wait with breathless … Continue reading →

Pre-integration Era Committee Convened

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The 16-member Pre-Integration Era Committee will be meeting to consider the 10 candidates on the Pre-integration Era Ballot, headlined by Doc Adams, starting today at the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings in Nashville, TN. Voting will be completed tomorrow. Any candidate to receive votes on 75 percent of the ballots cast will earn election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 24, 2016, along with any electees who emerge from the 2016 Baseball Writers’ Association of America election. The members of the committee are: Hall of Fame members Bert Blyleven, Bobby Cox, … Continue reading →

Sports Illustrated – Pioneer Doc Adams Deserves Admission

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Cliff Corcoran states “…pioneer Doc Adams deserves admission for his underappreciated role in the creation of the game itself during the 19th century.” in his Sports Illustrated article, “Winter meetings preview: Storylines, players to watch in Nashville“. Check out the “The Hall of Fame’s Pre-Integration Era ballot result” paragraph.

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If I Had A Ballot In This…

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In the second part of his “Breaking down the Hall of Fame’s Pre-Integration Era ballot” article in Sports Illustrated, Jay Jaffee sums it up with, “If I had a ballot in this, I’d tab … Adams, whose role in establishing baseball as we know it remained obscure for far too long.“

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