Dale Porter

During the Deadball Era, luck and persistence were nearly as…

Norris O’Neill

Norris O’Neill, one of three nineteenth-century baseball figures…

Elizabeth Mahon

From 1943 through 1954, when the All-American Girls Base Ball…
Jimmy Claxton (BASEBALL-REFERENCE.COM)

Jimmy Claxton

On the morning of May 28, 1916, a lean, lefthanded pitcher took…

W.W. McCredie

"History is the essence of innumerable biographies," wrote historian…

Arthur Gorman

The story of baseball in the nation's capital is interlinked…

Sophie Kurys

Sophie Mary Kurys, born into a Ukrainian-Polish family in Flint,…
June Peppas (Trading Card Database)

June Peppas

By the time she pitched and won the final game of the Shaughnessy…
Alice Hoover (AAGPBL.ORG)

Alice Hoover

Alice Hoover played one season in the All-American Girls Professional…

Betsy Jochum

Betsy Jochum was one of the sixty original players, as well as…

Pacer Smith

Violent crimes have been charged to professional athletes long…

Joe Simenic

If you spend much time at the Hall of Fame perusing the files…

Toni Stone

Even after the integration of minor- and major-league baseball…

Bob McConnell

In 1939, the ESSO Gas Company issued a fifty-page booklet to…

Jean Havlish

As a child growing up in the 1940s on Rice Street in St. Paul,…
Jim Campbell (Trading Card Database)

Jim Campbell

By the end of 1987 Jim Campbell had set the major league…
Dick O'Connell (SABR-Rucker Archive)

Dick O’Connell

It was nearing the end of September, 1914, and a 19-year-old…

Jim Britt

Jim Britt was the radio and television voice of both the Boston…
Larry Osterman (Courtesy of the Detroit Tigers)

Larry Osterman

Larry Osterman’s career as a Detroit Tigers broadcaster spanned…

Mary Shane

Mary Driscoll was born in Milwaukee and was a member of the baby…

Corwin Johns

Circuit Judge William Corwin Johns was a staple of the Decatur,…

William Gray

William Gray was born in Tariffville, Connecticut, in December…

Dan Loderick

In 1898, the town of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, lost one of its…

Patrick Purtell

Patrick W. Purtell died in his longtime hometown of Columbus,…
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