Doc Adams Base Ball (Official)

Doc Adams was named on the Pre-Integration Era Committee this week, so, here’s a quick update on the upcoming timeline of National Baseball Hall of Fame events. On December 7, 2015, the 16-member Pre-Integration Era Committee will be voting on the list of 10 candidates, headlined by Doc Adams, at the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings in Nashville, TN. The Hall of Fame will announce the candidates that have been selected by the Pre-Integration Committee for enshrinement in the Hall. Candidates named on 75% of the ballots cast will earn election and be inducted in Cooperstown on July 24, 2016, … Continue reading →

From SABR member John Thorn at Our Game on November 14, 2012: Twenty years ago I “rediscovered” Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams with the publication in the debut issue of the Elysian Fields Quarterly of my article “The True Father of Baseball.” I expanded upon this offering several times over the ensuing years, notably in Total Baseball; it appears in its latest incarnation at the SABR Biproject site: Doc Adams Bio. I also wrote about Adams and his key innovations–setting the basepaths at ninety feet and inventing the position of shortstop–in my most recent book, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History … Continue reading →