Jay Jaffe of FanGraphs again shows support for Doc Adams’ inclusion in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Hopefully, the committee does better homework than it did last time when Doc came up 2 votes short for election. Since the … Continue reading →
Here’s an assortment of a few Knickerbocker Base Ball Club games that Doc Adams participated. Newspaper accounts of some of the games that Doc Adams played in, starting with one on July 1, 1853, suspended due to storms and completed … Continue reading →
The seminal interview of Doc Adams that appeared in the February 29, 1896 Sporting News has surfaced in several places previously. This version, found in the Chicago Chronicle on June 23, 1895, is the earliest we’ve found to date.
Continue reading →In a recent Sport Web article, “The Top 8 Most Expensive Sports Collectibles on the Market” by Theodore Hubbard, Doc Adams’ Laws of Base Ball came in at #5. In 2016, the Laws fetched $3.26 million at auction. Thier greater … Continue reading →
In the premier issue of Beadle’s Dime Base-Ball Player, Hall of Famer Henry Chadwick, expresses gratitude to his friend, Dr. Adams. Doc was also listed as delegate to the 1860 National Convention representing the Knickerbockers with his teammate, William Grenelle. … Continue reading →
In a game that the Knickerbockers won 37-23 vs. the Empires on June 25, 1857, Doc led off and tallied 6 runs.
Continue reading →The following is from the “Biographical and Historical Record of the Class of 1835 in Yale College, for the Fifty Years from the Admission of the Class to College” published in 1881 by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers, 371 State … Continue reading →
“The League That Failed” (by David Quentin Voigt) cuts through the haze that surrounds 19th-century baseball history, and portrays a classic, colorful era when baseball was chaotic, struggled over by players, coaches, sportswriters, fans, and owners. It recounts the stormy … Continue reading →
What is often referred to as the first recorded game played under the Knickerbocker Rules (now believed to be yet another intrasquad game), took place on June 19, 1846. The Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club (aka “the … Continue reading →
On June 15, 1832, Doc Adams received a letter from his 11-year old sister that has become known as the “Bat and Ball letter“. In the letter his sister Nancy sent to him at school, she said, “I have not … Continue reading →