Doc Adams Base Ball (Official)

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 →

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.“

Glen Sparks posted the first part of his two part interview of Marjorie Adams, “Hall of Fame Considers the Case for Pioneer ‘Doc’ Adams” today on the Dazzy Vance Chronicles. Marjorie, “one of Doc’s biggest supporters”, talks in depth about her great-grandfather and the role he played in the development of the game of baseball. Definitely worth a read! The second part of the interview will be posted tomorrow.