Robert Cannon

Robert Cannon came to love baseball as a boy growing up in Milwaukee.…

William Eckert

Retired Air Force Lieutenant General William Eckert was named…
Cum Posey

Cum Posey

Although his fame rests with his relationship with the great…
Gus Greenlee (Courtesy of NoirTech Inc.)

Gus Greenlee

Gus Greenlee, famed owner of the Pittsburgh Crawfords, came from…

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…

Mary Pratt

Breaking barriers her entire life, Mary Pratt, an outstanding…
Doris Sams (AAGPBL.org)

Doris Sams

For eight years after World War II, Doris Jane "Sammye" Sams,…

Delores Brumfield

In the spring of my first year on the faculty at Henderson…
Earlene Risinger (Trading Card Database)

Earlene Risinger

At South High Field in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Wednesday,…
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…

Elizabeth Mahon

From 1943 through 1954, when the All-American Girls Base Ball…

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…

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…
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