On February 29, 1896, the Sporting News published an article on Dr. D. L. Adams sub-titled ‘Memoirs of the Father of Base Ball’. The article is based on an interview of Doc and details his contributions to the nascent National … Continue reading →
At a meeting held February 27, 1858, Messrs. D. L. Adams and W. H. Grenelle were appointed delegates to the first convention of Base Ball Clubs, to be held on the 10th of March. The first meeting of the Convention … Continue reading →
The 1857 Convention of Base Ball Players met for the second and final time on February 25 at Smith’s Hotel, the headquarters of the Knickerbocker Club, with the following clubs represented: Knickerbocker, Gotham, Eagle, Empire, Putnam, Baltic, Excelsior, Atlantic, Harmony, … Continue reading →
An article in the New Haven Courier reports on the death of “an old baseball player”, recounting Henry Chadwick’s letter to the Sporting Life.
Continue reading →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 →
Jay Jaffe of FanGraphs made a great point prior to Doc Adams eligibility for the 2021 (2022) Hall of Fame ballot. Unfortunately, the homework wasn’t done, and Adams astonishingly did not appear on the ballot. Nor was the homework done … Continue reading →
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 following auto-biography 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 … Continue reading →
BREAKING NEWS: DOC ADAMS’ GROUNDBREAKING 1857 ‘LAWS OF BASE BALL’ TO BE DISPLAYED AT THE HALL O FAME. On December 6th, 1856, the Knickerbockers formed a three-man committee headed by Daniel Lucius ‘Doc’ Adams (with William Grenelle and Louis Wadsworth) … Continue reading →
In 1839, Dr. Daniel L. Adams began established his practice in New York City and continued there for twenty-seven years. For most of that time he was closely connected with theNew York Dispensary, and was appointed attending physician from 1839 … Continue reading →