Daniel Lucius Adams and Cornelia Cook married on May 7, 1861, and remained together until Adams’ death. The couple had five children; the first, a son named Charles, died less than a month after his birth in 1864. The others, … Continue reading →
The Knickerbockers held elections annually to determine who would serve as officials. At the club’s second election, held on May 5, 1846, Adams was named the Knickerbockers’ vice president. At an April 1847 meeting, he became the president of the … Continue reading →
An article on the “Origin of Base Ball” appeared on May 4, 1905, in the Long Beach Evening Tribune. The right questions were being asked back then; however, it wasn’t as easy to find the answers. Had the information available … Continue reading →
I recently stumbled across this article in Reddit and found it interesting. In honor of our hard-working doctors keeping us safe during this pandemic, it lists an All-Physician Team! Actually, it lists 40 players who earned a real medical degree, … Continue reading →
Jay Jaffee discusses the cancellation of the 2020 National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction in a FanGraphs article “The Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020 Will Have to Wait a Year .for Induction Weekend“. Jaffe alludes to the cancellation of … Continue reading →
The fifth annual meeting was held at Abell’s, 474 Broadway, on the 7th of April, 1849. The officers elected for the year, were : D. L. Adams, President ; Ed. W. Talman, Vice-President; Eugene Plunkett, Secretary; F. C. Niebuhr, Treasurer. … Continue reading →
On April 24, 2016, the last hours of the auction for the “Laws of Base Ball” authored by Doc Adams lived up to its billing and did not disappoint as the closing bid came in at $3,263,246 setting a new … Continue reading →
Jay Jaffe of Fan Graphs recently expressed his support (again) for the induction of Doc Adams into the National Hall of Fame. He also made a good point back in January. Here’s some thoughts from Jay Jaffe in Sports Illustrated … Continue reading →
Here’s a sampling of Doc Adam’s executive history with the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club. Extracts from “Book of American Pastimes, Containing a History of the Principal Base Ball, Cricket, Rowing and Yachting Clubs of the United States”, Charles A. Peverelly, … Continue reading →
A couple of weeks ago, we shared some information on Dr. Daniel Lucius Adams (Doc Adams) contributions during the New York Cholera epidemic of 1854. In his Our Game Blog, John Thorn (the official historian for MLB) provided context of … Continue reading →