Top Stories:
“Founding Rules of ‘Base Ball’ Sell for $3.26 Million in Auction”, New York Times (4/24/2016)
“The Making of Baseball’s Magna Carta”, Our Game (2/28/2016)
“DOC ADAMS HELPED SHAPE BASEBALL’S EARLIEST DAYS”, National Baseball Hall Of Fame (10/5/2015)
Doc Adams on John Thorn’s ‘Our Game’ Blog
The seminal article (and its predecessor) on “The Father of Base Ball”:
“Dr. D. L. Adams: Memoirs of the Father of Base Ball”, Sporting News (2/24/1896)
More recent stories on Doc in the news, blog reports, etc (disclaimer: these are Doc Adams media references – not all are 100% accurate):
“Last Century Baseball Was All The Rage”, Zhuanlan-Zhihu (3/12/2023)
“What is a Shortstop in Baseball? [Answered with Details]”, Weezin Ball (3/1/2023)
“Alexander Cartwright facts for kids”, Kiddle (2/6/2023)
“The JoeBlogs Hall of Fame”, JoeBlogs (2/2/2023)
“10 Most Expensive MLB Memorabilia Items Ever Sold”, Clutch Points (1/31/2023)
“14 Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia”, Rarest.org (12/13/2022)
“Baseball pioneers”, The Cabinet Press (10/14/2022)
“Mont Vernon honors early baseball pioneer”, The Telegraph (10/9/2022)
“Baseball Innovator”, Jersey Dispatch (7/27/2022)
“Who Created Baseball?”, Rookie Road (5/17/2022)
“Who Invented Baseball?”, Baseball Nation (5/13/2022)
“The Fashion Race Course Ball”, Our Game (05/09/2022)
“Sports Memorabilia That’s Sold For Over $1 Million”, Grunge (05/05/2022)
“The Hall of Fame Shakes Up its Era Committee System Yet Again”, FanGraphs (4/26/2022)
“A Stroll Through Time”, 068 Magazine (4/12/2022)
“Bock’s Score: Please Leave It Alone”, NY Sports Day (4/3/2022)
“Bock’s Score: Baseball, Not Up To Par”, NY Sports Day (3/3/2022)
“Baseball Memorabilia: The MLB articles sold for millions of dollars at auction”, MSN (1/13/2022)
“On the ball | Billion$ Yankee$ for do$ Venezuelan$”, Lider (12/13/2021)
“Sunday Notes: Graham Spraker Was a Breakout Blue Jay in Double-A”, FanGraphs (12/12/2021)
“2022 Early Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Lefty O’Doul”, FanGraphs (11/30/2021)
“Championing Doc Adams For The Baseball Hall Of Fame”, James C. Metzger (11/15/2021)
“The Era Committee Ballots Bring a Double Dose of Hall of Fame Candidates”, FanGraphs (11/8/2021)
“Vintage Baseball Game Celebrates N.H. Man’s Legacy On The Diamond”, NHPR (9/25/2021)
“What is a Shortstop in Baseball? (Detailed Explanation)”, Baseball Scouter (9/16/2021)
“9 innings. 9 men. 90 feet between the bases.”, Twitter: John Thorn (9/3/2021)
“Vintage base ball with the Fungis”, Filmore County Journal (8/23/2021)
“Shortstop In Baseball – Baseball Position”, GET HYPED SPORTS (7/31/2021)
“5 Inventors”, Our Game (7/26/2021)
“Why It’s Called A Shortstop In Baseball [Learn Here]”, Get Hyped (7/14/2021)
“A Q and A with Marjorie Adams (2014)”, Smokey Joe Wood (SABR) (7/12/2021)
“5 Shortstops” ,Our Game (6/28/2021)
“The Top 8 Most Expensive Sports Collectibles on the Market”, Sport Web (5/28/2021)
“Rules & Customs of Nineteenth Century Base Ball”, Mountain Athletic Club Vintage Base Ball (5/2021)
“How Did Shortstop Get The Name ‘Shortstop’?”, FanBuzz (5/7/2021)
“How We Got Here”, Our Game (4/26/2021)
“New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club”, BaseballSpotlight (3/10/2021)
“The Consolations of Baseball”, Our Game (03/01/2021)
“Bock’s Score: At WAR With Today’s Baseball”, New York Sportsday (2/20/2021)
“Top 10 Memorabilia Classics Sold at Auction”, Sports Collector’s Digest (2/3/2021)
“Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 1/29/21”, FanGraphs (01/29/2021)
“D’Addona: Hall of Fame likely to pitch shutout”, Holland Sentinel (12/30/2020)
“The Outsiders: No. 28, Doc Adams”, The Athletic (12/15/2020)
“WHO REALLY INVENTED BASEBALL?”, Grunge (10/28/2020)
“Vintage base ball the subject of presentation”, The Bargain Hunter (10/12/2020)
“Good manners guide vintage baseball series, pandemic and all”, Bristol Press (9/20,2020)
“Jim Kaat, former teammates see Hall of Fame chances pushed back”, Holland Sentinel (08/26/2020)
“Era Committee elections rescheduled to 2021”, MLB.com (8/24/2020)
“Our First President Of The Bank – Fairfield County Bank”, Facebook (7/16/2020)
“Heading for the Hall of Fame, with a little help from friends”, The Scott House Journal (July 2020)
“The All-Physician Team!”, reddit (4/10/2020)
“Baseball in the Time of Cholera”, Our Game (3/22/2020)
“Ask Claire with Claire Hall”, Comfortable Zoned Radio Network (1/26/2020)
“Who Really Invented Baseball?”, Encyclopedia Britannica
“Scout’s Take: Get Ready For ‘Bizzaro Baseball'”, NY Sports Day (7/13/2019)
“Play Ball!”, Plymouth District Library (6/27/2019)
“Doc Adams Update”, Ridgefield Historical Society Newsletter (June 2019)
“How the Shortstop Offensive Makeover Is Changing Baseball”, The Ringer (3/26/2019)
“New Hampshire’s Role In Creating Baseball”, New Hampshire Magazine (3/14/2019)
“Riding up Route 13 to Mont Vernon”, WCVB (2/25/2019)
“John Thorn on Scoring”, Twitter (2/3/2019)
“Baseball’s ‘Magna Carta'”, Library of Congress (1/18/2019)
“Muzzy Field hosts a Vintage All-Star Baseball Game”, The Bristol Press (10/14/2018)
“Mont Vernon Recognizes Baseball Founder”, The Cabinet Press (10/4/2018)
“The Laws of Baseball … and the ‘Unchanging Game’”, Our Game (7/17/2018)
“Feehery: The Long Game”, The Hill (7/16/2018)
“Baseball Americana at the Library of Congress”, Art Eyewitness (7/14/2018)
“Baseball’s Magna Carta”, Library of Congress Magazine (July/August 2018) page 10
“Bock’s Score: Where Did Our Game Of Baseball Go?”, New York Sports Day (7/8/2018)
“Almost 50 years on, baseball’s Midsummer Classic returns to Washington, DC”, Ammos Travel Agency (5/20/2018)
“San Diego lawyer shares ‘Rules of Baseball’ in Washington exhibit”, 10 News (5/18/2018)
“Exhibition of baseball’s ‘Magna Carta’ comes to Library of Congress”, WTOP (5/4/2018)
“A father of Base ball?”,The Cabinet Press (9/14/2017)
“Bock’s Score: Meet the Man Who Created The Shortstop”, NY Sports Day (9/3/2017)
“The push to honor a baseball pioneer from New Hampshire”, Concord Monitor (8/19/2017)
“Celebrating Doc Adams: ‘A father of base ball’?”, The Cabinet Press (8/17/2017)
“Fairfield County Bank is proud to introduce Doc Adams Days”, Ridgefield’s HamletHub (7/28/2017)
“Discover the mysterious origins of some of baseball’s most well-known terms”, MLB.com (7/13/2017)
“10 good Hall of Fame candidates most MLB fans have never heard of”, Sporting News (5/10/2017)
“SABR 47: Research Presentations”, SABR (5/5/2017)
“The Hall of Fame Case for Doc Adams”, David Krell (4/29/2017)
“MLB has more than one Daddy”, Think Blue LA (1/15/2017)
“Delayed but not defeated: Marjorie Adams, Doc Adams, and the Hall of Fame”, SABR (1/15/2017)
“The Hall of Fame Case for Doc Adams”, The Sports Post (1/3/2017)
“My Own Little Hall of Fame Recap: I”, Verdun2’s Blog (12/13/2016)
“If I Only Had a Vote”, Hall of Stats (12/9/2016)
“Is It Time For Robo Umps?”, Think Blue LA (12/7/2016)
“‘Medical Fellows’ and the New York Game”, Columbia Medicine (Fall/Winter 2016)
“The 40 most important people in baseball history, ranked”, The Sporting News (11/22/2016)
“From a Game to a Sport – Baseball in the 1850s”, The National Pastime Museum (11/17/2016)
“Baseball’s Magna Carta’ gets extra time at OHS”, KOIN 6 (10/7/2016)
“The True Godfather of Our Game”, Bardball.com (8/11/2016)
“Baseball in the Garden of Eden”, The Oregon Historical Society (8/2/2016)
“Doc Adams Portrait”, Cecil Cooperstown (8/2/2016)
“‘Laws of Base Ball’ documents on display at Oregon Historical Society”, Fox 12 Oregon (7/25/2016)
“In Gettysburg, she wants ‘father of baseball’ to reach Hall of Fame”, The Evening Sun (7/16/2016)
“Birth of Baseball”, The Oregonian (7/1/2016)
“Baseball’s Magna Carta – Setting The Rules Of America’s Game”, SeattlePi (7/1/2016)
“Papers considered the ‘Magna Carta’ of baseball coming to Portland”, Fox 12 Oregon (6/17/2016)
“Culture Corner: Baseball, perfect from the beginning”, East Oregonian (6/6/2016)
“Baseball came to Boulder in the 1860s”, GetBoulder.com (6/6/2016)
“PORTLAND: Society to host “The Magna Carta of Baseball” exhibit”, My Eastern Oregon (6/4/2016)
“Grave of Baseball Pioneer Finally Marked”, Green-Wood Cemetery (5/17/2016)
“HILLARY SMITH: ‘Base ball’ laws prove nothing is forever”, The Northwest Indiana Times (5/15/2016)
“Who Was The Creator of The First 20 Rules of Baseball?”, Latino Baseball (5/12/2016)
“Who really invented baseball?”, MLB (5/3/2016)
“Eight Investment Tips From The $3.3 Million Sale Of ‘The Laws Of Base Ball'”, Forbes (4/26/2016)
“Louis Fenn Wadsworth: Baseball’s Man of Mystery and History”, Our Game (4/26/2016)
“Auction of Baseball Rules Sets Record”, Orange County Business Journal (4/25/2016)
“The 1857 ‘Laws of Base Ball’ just sold at auction for more than $3 million”, MLB (4/25/2016)
“‘Laws of Baseball’ Documents Go For $3 Million at Auction”, Baseball Essentials (4/25/2016)
“The Laws of Base Ball sets new world record”, Paul Fraser Collectibles (4/25/2016)
“1857 DOCUMENT OUTLINING ORIGINAL BASEBALL RULES SELLS FOR $3.26 MILLION”, Beckett
“Baseball’s ‘Magna Carta’ sells for $3.3M, reveals new ‘father'”, CBS (4/24/2016)
“Baseball’s Original Rules Fetch Record $3.2 Million At Auction”, Financial Review (4/24/2016)
“Rules of baseball bought in auction for $3.26M”, ESPN (4/24/2016)
“Is former Connecticut Senator Doc Adams the father of baseball?”, New Haven Register (4/24/2016)
“Founding Rules of ‘Base Ball’ Sell for $3.26 Million in Auction”, New York Times (4/24/2016)
“New Father of Baseball, Sport’s “Magna Carta” sells for $3.3M”, Wochit News (4/24/2016)
“Historic ‘Laws of Baseball’ documents sell for more than $3M”, USA Today (4/24/2016)
“You ARE the Father: Who Is Doc Adams, Baseball’s Dad”, USA Today (4/24/2016)
“Early Baseball Docs, Koufax Jersey Climb Past $300K”, Sports Collectors Daily (4/22/2016)
“An updated look at the most elusive memorabilia in sports”, Sports Illustrated (4/19/2016)
“Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams nouveau père du baseball”, Les Tours De Laliberte (4/18/2016)
“Who founded baseball? Documents put answer in dispute”, The Sedgwick County Post (4/12/2016)
“PSA/DNA Authenticates the 1857 ‘Laws of Base Ball'”, YouTube (4/12/2016)
“Documents reveal Ridgefielder’s role as baseball founding father”, Ridgefield Press (4/11/2016)
“Who’s your Daddy? Modern baseball may have new founder”, AP (4/7/2016)
“‘Laws of Base Ball’ documents dated 1857 establish new founder of sport”, ESPN (4/7/2016)
“Documents reveal baseball invented earlier than believed”, The Mercury News (4/7/2016)
“The Momentous Baseball Convention of 1857”, Our Game (3/31/2016)
“1857 Document Outlining Original Baseball Rules Discovered, Set To Be Sold”, Beckett (3/16/2016)
“1857 ‘Laws of Base Ball’ Rewrites History; Could Sell for $1M+”, Sports Collector’s Digest (3/15/2016)
“‘Laws of Base Ball’ document could fetch $1 million at auction”, The Sports Bookie (3/15/2016)
“Base Ball’s Origins — A Clearer Picture”, Inside Sports (3/1/2016)
“The Making of Baseball’s Magna Carta”, Our Game (2/28/2016)
“Landmark 1857 Baseball Document Could Fetch Record Price”, YouTube (2/28/2016)
“A Course Correction for Cooperstown”, The Hardball Times (12/14/2015)
“My Own Little Hall of Fame: 2015 Wrap”, Verdun2’s Blog (12/8/2015)
“BASEBALL’S 2016 PRE-INTEGRATION ERA COMMITTEE BALLOT: ARE THERE ANY HALL OF FAMERS LEFT? “, Not in the Hall of Fame (12/8/2015)“Pre-Integration Era vote again shows flaws in Hall of Fame’s process”, Sports Illustrated (12/7/2015)
“Twins great Bert Blyleven: Veterans candidates ‘just didn’t go in'”, Pioneer Press (12/7/2015)
“My 19th Century Pantheon”, Our Game (12/7/2015)
“MLB WINTER MEETINGS”, ASAP Sports Transcripts, (12/7/2015)
“Pre-Integration vote yields no Hall inductees”, MLB, (12/7/2015)
“Pre-Integration Committee Voting Results”, Baseball Hall of Fame (12/7/2015)
“John Thorn on Hot Stove”, MLB Network (12/7/2015)
“Should Doc Adams Be in the Hall of Fame? Of course.”, Dazzy Vance Chronicles (12/4/2015)
“Winter meetings preview: Storylines, players to watch in Nashville”, Sports Illustrated (12/4/2015)
“Past players placed in Hall of Fame spotlight”, Press and Sun-Bulletin (12/4/2015)
“Pre-Integration Candidates Up for Hall of Fame Induction”, Dazzy Vance Chronicles (12/2/2015)
“Harry Stovey Leads BBRT Pre-Integration ERA Baseball HOF Choices”, Baseball Roundtable (12/1/2015)
“Abner Cartwright”, Our Game (11/30/2015)
“Pioneer’s relative fights for his HOF election”, MLB.com (11/27/2015)
“History Denied”, The Hall Ball (11/11/2015)
“Yale Graduate on Hall of Fame Ballot for Baseball Achievements”, Yale University Athletics, (10/21/2015)
“Lazzari’s Sports Roundup – 10/14/15”, Bob Lazzari on Sports, (10/14/2015)
“Doc Adams: 19th Century Ballplayer, 21st Century Hall of Famer?”, Olny a Game, WBUR (10/10/2015)
“Posnanski Plays Race Card in His Criticism of Baseball Hall of Fame’s Pre-Integration Committee”, Seamheads.com (10/9/2015)
“Ridgefielder Adams on Ballot for Baseball Hall of Fame”, Ridgefield Times (10/8/2015)
“Vintage Baseball Is A Return To Our Roots”, News Center Maine (10/7/2015)
“Pre-integration Hall Of Fame Ballot Unveiled”, Baseball America (10/6/2015)
“2016 Pre-Integration Ballot Released”, Hall of Stats (10/6/2015)

“10 finalists named for Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2016 Pre-Integration Era ballot”, SABR (10/5/2015)
“DOC ADAMS HELPED SHAPE BASEBALL’S EARLIEST DAYS”, National Baseball Hall Of Fame (10/5/2015)
“2016 PRE-INTEGRATION COMMITTEE CANDIDATES”, National Baseball Hall Of Fame (10/5/2015)
“Lazzari’s Sports Roundup”, Bob Lazzari on Sports (9/26/2015)
“Late Rally for Doc Adams, a Jeter Before There Were Mitts”, The New York Times (9/22/2015)
“CUNY TV Special: Baseball: The New York Game”, CUNY Television (9/18/15)
“Blast from past: Vintage baseball conjures memories of bygone era”, The Republican (9/15/2015)
“Vintage Players Help To Preserve Baseball’s History”, Saratogian (8/25/2015)
“First Look: The 2016 Pre-Integration Ballot”, Hall of Stats (6/2/2015)
“How did the players get where they did”, Ordinary Times (5/27/2015)
“Efforts Ramp Up to Get CT Baseball Legend Into Hall of Fame”, Connecticut Magazine (3/6/2015)
“The New York Base Ball Club (a.k.a. Washington BBC, Gotham BBC)”, Our Game (2/18/2015)
“The Elysian Fields”, Our Game (12/3/2014)
“Does This Oldtimer Really Belong In The Hall Of Fame”, Just A Bit Outside (11/22/2014)
“Happy Birthday, Doc Adams!!!”, Seamheads (11/1/2014)
“Doc Adams”, Scribd (11/1/2014)
“Daniel ‘Doc’ Adams”, Wikipedia Featured Article (11/1/2014)
“Daniel ‘Doc’ Adams”, Word Dictionary.com.au (11/1/2014)
“A Yale Presence in Baseball’s Beginning”, Yale Alumni Magazine (10/28/2014)
“Lazzari’s Sports Roundup” – – – – 8/30/14, Bobby Lazzari on Sports (9/2/2014)
“Monday Night Sports Talk” – Bob Lazzari & Tony DeAngelo (8/25/2014)
“Marjorie Adams’ Family Quest for the Hall of Fame”, SABR (8/11/2014)
“A Family Quest for the Hall of Fame”, SABR/CT Chapter (8/8/2014)
“SABR 44: Doc Adams is SABR’s 2014 Overlooked 19th Century Base Ball Legend”, SABR (7/31/2014)
“SABR’s 2014 Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legend”, SABR (7/31/2014)
“SABR 44: Doc Adams selected as Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legend for 2014”, SABR (7/31/2014)
“Ten things to know as the Hall of Fame celebrates 75 years”, MLB.COM (6/9/2014)
“Doc Adams named 2014 Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legend finalist”, Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) (6/5/2014)
“Deee-fense: Baseball’s Big Shift”, Wall Street Journal (3/27/2014).
“Doc Adams, Reborn” CTNEWS (3/26/2014)
“Founding Father of Base Ball Speaks”, The Courant (3/25/2014)
“A Founding Father of Base Ball Speaks”, CNN iReport (3/24/2014)
“Daniel Lucius ‘Doc’ Adams – One of the True Fathers of Base Ball”, Friends of Vintage Base Ball (1/26/2014)
“Inventor del shortstop fuera de Cooperstown”, Juan Vené en la pelota, MLBlogs Network (9/8/2013)
“History Buried: America’s All-Star Game of 1858”, John Thorn, Voices (Spring-Summer 2013)
“Murph’s Turf: 10 sports stories for 2012”, The Ridgefield Press (12/30/2012)
“Doc Adams Remembers”, Our Game (11/14/2012)
“Thumbs up, thumbs down”, Danbury News-Times (7/30/2012)
“Getting Doc his due from baseball”, Danbury News-Times (7/29/2012)
“In this week’s Ridgefield Press”, The Ridgefield Press (7/26/2012)
“Group hoping to get former Ridgefielder Adams into baseball Hall”, The Ridgefield Press (7/26/2012)
“Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams – Long Overlooked Baseball Pioneer”, MLB Reports (7/25/2012)
“Doc Adams Finally Recognized As A Founder Of Baseball”, Hartford Courant (9/10/2011)
“How baseball really began”, Philly.com (4/3/2011)
“The ‘Secret History’ Of Baseball’s Earliest Days”, NPR (3/16/2011)
“Historian disputes who created baseball”, Fox Sports (3/13/2011)
“Debate Over Baseball’s Origins Spills Into Another Century”, New York Times (3/12/2011)
“Myth of Baseball’s Creation Endures, With a Prominent Fan”, New York Times (11/12/2010)
“Take Me Out to the Old Ball Game!”, CT News (3/18/2010)
“‘Doc’ Adams legacy; The position of shortstop”, NewsTimes.com (9/26/2009)
“The Evolution at Shortstop: A Short Tale of a Growing Legend”, The Palm Beach Post (3/30/2008)