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
- August 29, 1964: Hometown Wampum fans watch as Dick Allen leads first-place Phillies over Pirates
- May 8, 1963: Willie Stargell hits first career home run, but Cubs win after 4-run rally
- April 28, 1962: Minnie Miñoso rallies Cardinals to win over Reds
- June 18, 1961: Don Leppert debuts with home run, pickoff in Pirates’ win over Cardinals
- June 3, 1961: Pirates’ Bobby Shantz shut down Phillies for first win as NL starter
- May 23, 1960: Sandy Koufax stops first-place Pirates with one-hitter
- May 22, 1956: Henry Aaron’s 4-hit night in Brooklyn leads to first NL batting title
- May 29, 1955: Roberto Clemente’s five hits lead Pirates to curfew-interrupted win over Phillies
- April 22, 1953: Carlos Bernier breaks color line in debut with Pittsburgh Pirates
- May 27, 1952: Willie Mays leads Giants over Dodgers as Army induction approaches
- July 8, 1950: Pirates beat Cardinals on Jack Phillips’ pinch-hit grand slam in 9th
- June 11, 1950: Five-run Phillies’ eighth spoils Vern Law’s major-league debut for Pirates
- September 29, 1949: Former Cardinal Murry Dickson knocks St. Louis out of first place
- April 19, 1949: Pirates’ Rip Sewell outduels Cubs’ Dutch Leonard in first Opening Day matchup of starters in their 40s
- August 31, 1948: Pirates break Forbes Field season attendance record in win over Giants
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