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 Century Base Ball Conference was named in Ivor-Campbell’s honor after he passed in a tragic car accident just a few months after the first 19th Century Base Ball Conference.

It was fitting that the conference was named after him since he was among the historians and researchers that began the 19th Century base ball research renaissance that is still going strong and was SABR’s 19th Century Committee’s chair from 1991 to 1998. At the first conference, Fred played a prominent role as a moderator for the panel discussion and it was the last time many of his colleagues saw him. When Fred died, it was a sad day for SABR and all that knew him.

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