Batter Up! History of Baseball
Dona Herweck Rice identifies Doc Adams role in a rules timeline, in her book “Batter Up! History of Baseball“.
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On January 31, 1899, Henry Chadwick wrote to the editor of Sporting Life with reminiscences of his late friend and baseball pioneer, Dr. Daniel Lucius ‘Doc’ Adams. The letter was published on the front page of the February 4, 1899 … Continue reading →
Wilton Kiwanis Shows Support For Doc Adams
The Wilton Kiwanis, the 2nd largest club in New England, demonstrated support for Doc Adams by promoting our Doc Adams awareness campaign in their August 31, 2021, newsletter. Wilton is located right next to Ridgefield, CT where Doc lived from … Continue reading →
Rewriting History
Andrew Forbes, the author of The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays released an updated version with a “minor” correction. ” if you were to open both of those hypothetical copies of the book to the essay entitled “Madison Bumgarner and … Continue reading →
Hoping The Homework Gets Done
Jay Jaffe of FanGraphs made a great point prior to the last time Doc Adams was eligible for a Hall of Fame ballot, in 2020. Unfortunately, the homework wasn’t done, and Adams astonishingly did not appear on the ballot. We … Continue reading →
Marjorie Adams Appears on Ask Claire
Marjorie Adams was interviewed on January 26, 2020 by Claire Hall on the Ask Claire podcast on the Comfortably Zoned Radio Network. Note that this recording only has the 1st half of the podcast (about 14 minutes). Apparently, they had … Continue reading →
Ridgefield Bank President
In 1871, Doc Adams became the first President of the Ridgefield Savings Bank (now the Fairfield County Bank), a position he would hold in two separate terms for ten of the next fifteen years. His photo still hangs downstairs at the … Continue reading →
1857 Convention Of Base Ball Players
The 1857 Convention of Base Ball Players met for the first time on January 22 at Smith’s Hotel, the headquarters of the Knickerbocker Club, with the following clubs represented: Knickerbocker, Gotham, Eagle, Empire, Putnam, Baltic, Excelsior, Atlantic, Harmony, Harlem, Eckford, … Continue reading →
The American Game
Lawrence Baldassaro’s 2002 book, The American Game, included a chapter by Frederick Ivor-Campbell titled “The Many Fathers of Baseball: Anglo-Americans and the Early Game”. In it, Ivor-Campbell wrote about the previously most overlooked “father” of baseball, Doc Adams. SABR’s Nineteenth … Continue reading →
The New Biographical History Of Baseball
Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella in their book, “The New Biographical History of Baseball: The Classic—Completely Revised” refer to Doc Adams as one of the “candidates for the honorific title of Father of Baseball”.
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