John Fredland
An attorney and retired Air Force officer, John Fredland grew up near 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. He has served as committee chair for SABR’s Baseball Games Project since October 2020 and authored the SABR 50 at 50: Greatest Games feature to help celebrate SABR’s golden anniversary in 2021. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.
SABR BioProject biographies written by John Fredland
SABR Games Project stories written by John Fredland
- April 21, 1986: Mets preview October magic by rallying in 8th and 9th for win over Pirates
- April 20, 1986: Pirates beat Cubs after 4 months, 17 innings on Barry Bonds pinch-hit single
- April 12, 1986: Pirates’ 8th-inning rally gives Jim Leyland first win as manager
- April 8, 1986: Gooden’s complete game leads Mets to win on Opening Day
- May 17, 1985: Dave Parker’s homer leads Reds over Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium
- April 9, 1985: Cubs’ Rick Sutcliffe, Lee Smith shut down Pirates in opener
- September 24, 1984: Cubs clinch first postseason berth since 1945 behind Sandberg, Matthews, Sutcliffe
- July 22, 1984: Doug Frobel’s 11th-inning double gives Pirates a split with first-place Padres
- April 23, 1982: Rookie Ryne Sandberg records first two homers as Cubs drop slugfest to Pirates
- June 12, 1980: ‘Hit Man’ Mike Easler’s cycle leads Pirates over Reds
- April 6, 1979: Expos edge Pirates in 10-inning season opener
- October 2, 1977: Dusty Baker hits 30th homer, receives first-ever high-five from Glenn Burke in Dodgers’ loss to Astros
- April 20, 1977: Hat trick? Yankees’ unconventional lineup spurs win over Blue Jays
- August 9, 1976: John Candelaria pitches Pirates’ first no-hitter in Pittsburgh in seven decades
- June 20, 1975: Pirates’ John Candelaria bests Mets’ Tom Seaver for first major-league win
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