John Fredland
An attorney and Air Force officer, John Fredland grew up in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He fell in love with baseball through listening to Pittsburgh Pirates games on KDKA-AM, reading the Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and playing for youth and high school teams in his boyhood community. As an undergraduate at Rice University, John covered Rice’s nationally ranked baseball teams for the school newspaper, The Rice Thresher, from 1994-97. John received his law degree at Vanderbilt University before being commissioned into the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. In addition to SABR, he has written about baseball history for Pirates Prospects and Bucs Dugout. John’s Twitter account, @PGH_Sports_Date, highlights Pittsburgh’s sports history through historic newspaper articles.
SABR BioProject biographies written by John Fredland
SABR Games Project stories written by John Fredland
- May 2, 2014: Ninth-inning home runs rally Pirates past Blue Jays, spark season turnaround
- April 8, 2001: Aramis Ramirez attains liftoff for Pirates with three home runs
- August 2, 1998: Randy Johnson strikes out 12 in Houston Astros debut
- April 18, 1987: Mike Schmidt’s 500th home run rallies Phillies over Pirates
- April 8, 1986: Gooden’s complete game leads Mets to win on Opening Day
- September 24, 1984: Cubs clinch first postseason berth since 1945 behind Sandberg, Matthews, Sutcliffe
- August 9, 1976: John Candelaria pitches Pirates’ first no-hitter in Pittsburgh in seven decades
- May 29, 1955: Roberto Clemente’s five hits lead Pirates to curfew-interrupted win over Phillies
- July 8, 1950: Pirates beat Cardinals on Jack Phillips’ pinch-hit grand slam in 9th
- May 8, 1897: Pink Hawley, Bones Ely lead Pirates to sweep over Reds
SABR Journal Articles written by John Fredland
SABR Research Topics written by John Fredland
SABR Research Articles written by John Fredland
SABR Ballparks written by John Fredland