Matthew Killilea

If asked for the name of the man responsible for bringing the…
Faye Dancer (Trading Card Database)

Faye Dancer

Known as “All the Way Faye” for her exuberance both on and…
Dan Daniel, 1920 (PUBLIC DOMAIN)

Dan Daniel

Dan Daniel thought he had the best job on the newspaper. Several…
Sylvia Wronski (Trading Card Database)

Sylvia Wronski

Sylvia “Ronie” Wronski pitched for her hometown Milwaukee…

Ben De La Vergne

Ben De La Vergne was one of the brave catchers who played during…

John Dickins

Baseball was part of the long and varied life of John W. Dickins…
In 1892, he played for the Gorhams and then the Cuban Giants on his way to a Hall of Fame career.

Frank Grant

Frank Grant was one of the best second basemen of the nineteenth…
Omar Linares (Trading Card Database)

Omar Linares

Omar Linares is widely considered the best third baseman found…

John Anderson

Since 1931 the University of Minnesota baseball program has been…

Edie Perlick

Edythe Perlick (later Keating), the star left fielder for the…

John Ryn

John Ryn’s career was spent in the Midwest, South and West…

George Kihm

George Kihm learned to play ball on the diamonds of the Ohio…
Charlie Grant (SABR-Rucker Archive)

Charlie Grant

Statistics and anecdotes of early black player Charlie Grant…

Eduardo Green

Eduardo Green (1920-1980) never played in the majors. In fact,…

Paddy Bolan

Patrick J. “Paddy” Bolan was probably born in 1869.…

Hiram Waldo

By the end of the nineteenth century, the venerable Cap Anson…
John "Bud" Fowler, SABR's 2020 Overlooked 19th Century Legend who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2022 (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Bud Fowler

John Fowler was one of the true pioneers of American baseball,…
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,…
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