Should Doc Adams Be In The Hall Of Fame? Of Course!

The vintage base ball community rallied behind Doc Adams in 2024. Teams around the country sponsored “A Pitch For Doc Adams” events to honor Adams and raise awareness of his role as a baseball pioneer among ballists and cranks alike. As teams have been holding these events, some recorded and submitted clips about Doc Adams’ Hall of Fame case. These clips were reviewed, selected, and compiled into the following video. Enjoy it! learn about Doc Adams and share it with family and friends. Help raise awareness of this long-overlooked baseball pioneer.

The response to the previous “Of Course” video was so great and so many great videos had been submitted that the folks responsible for it decided to compile a second one.

The individual clips are included below, along with some of the others that did not make it into the two compilations.

Kudos to Collin “Stumpy” Miller of the Mountain Athletic Club for conceiving and coordinating this effort, to Tom Fesolowich for pulling together the first dynamic video, and to all who answered Collin’s call to action.

Should Doc Adams Be In The Hall of Fame? Of Course! (Chapter 1)
Should Doc Adams Be In The Hall of Fame? Of Course! (Chapter X)

The following is a collection of some of the best clips submitted (not all made it into the previous compilations):

Gary ‘Reverand’ Monti, Umpire,
Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Old Bethpage, NY
Corky Gaskell, Ray Hanson, Knickerbocker Experience,
Rochester & St. Croix, MN
Michele Hand, Priscilla Porters’ Astonishing Ladies Base Ball Club, Genesee Country Village Museum, Mumford, NY
Jeff ‘Pinetar’ Kornhaas, Liberty Base Ball Club, Meriden, CT

Matt ‘Black Bart’ Bartnicki, Diamond State Base Ball Club,
Wilmington, DE
Frank ‘Druid’ Pagano, Mutual Base Ball Club of New York

John ‘Mr. New Jersey’ Zinn,
Neshanock Base Ball Club of Flemington
Dan ‘Gunner’ Genovese, Westfield Wheelmen, Westfield MA

Craig Combs, Elizabeth Resolutes, Elizabeth NJ

Joel ‘Plowboy’ Watters, Cleveland Blues Base Ball Club Cleveland, OH

Nick Frandsen and John Finn, Bovina Dairymen, Bovina Center, NY

Phil ‘Old Soul’ Reese, Atlantic Base Ball Club, Old Bethpage, NY

Collin ‘Stumpy’ Miller, Mountain Athletic Club, Fleischmanns, NY

Mike ‘Marbles’ Fini, Cornshucker Base Ball Club of Canton, MI

‘Shoeless’ Jake Newcomb, Dirigo Base Ball Club of Maine

Ray Hanson, The Knickerbocker Experience, St. Croix, MN

Bruce Keith, Eclipse Base Ball Club of Elkton, Elkton MD

Jon Henson, Providence Grays, Providence, RI

Collin ‘Stumpy’ Miller & Jeff ‘Pinetar’ Kornhaas,
The Knickerbocker Experience,
National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
Atlantic Base Ball Club, Smithtown, NY & Providence Grays, Providence, RI