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…
Ray Lane (Courtesy of Michigan Sports Hall of Fame)

Ray Lane

Born in Detroit in 1930, some of Ray Lane’s earliest memories…
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,…

Ernie Lanigan

Note: This article was originally published by SABR in the 1973…

Andy Rudolph

Who was Andy Rudolph? Not much more than an especially rabid…

Merle Harmon

He was a sports broadcaster and former college football player…
Jim Tugerson

Jim Tugerson

While Jackie Robinson and some of the other pioneers who helped…
Ernie Harwell (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

Ernie Harwell

Ernie Harwell (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)   For…
Eddie Bennett (Library of Congress)

Eddie Bennett

Any objective summary of Eddie Bennett’s contributions to baseball…

Charles Pinkney

A decade before the Ray Chapman tragedy, another infielder from…
Eddie Brannick (New York Times)

Eddie Brannick

John Drebinger once wrote of Eddie Brannick, "He has legions…

Christian Meisel

Christian H. Meisel was born in Newark, New Jersey, around 1857,…

Barney Joy

Although long forgotten, Barney Joy was briefly the talk of baseball…

Robert Hedges

The first owner of the St. Louis Browns, Robert Hedges was a…

Jim Rantz

Although he went through the University of Minnesota on a hockey…

Alphonso Gerard

One lone ballplayer from the U.S. Virgin Islands played in the…

Marge Schott

Marge Schott was the first woman to own and operate a major league…

Arch McDonald

Arch McDonald was the first radio voice of the New York Yankees,…

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