Larry DeFillipo
Larry DeFillipo is a retired aerospace engineer and former Division III college pitcher who lives in Kennewick, Washington, with his wife Kelly. His work has been published in the Baseball Research Journal, The National Pastime and several SABR special publications, most recently a celebration of the 2001 Seattle Mariners titled Two Outs, So What! Particularly intrigued by baseball’s formative years, he has twice presented at the Fred Ivor-Campbell Nineteenth Century Baseball Conference. He’s authored dozens of game stories for SABR’s Games Project, many ballplayers and ballpark biographies for SABR’s Biography Project, and serves as a fact-checker for both of those endeavors.
SABR BioProject biographies written by Larry DeFillipo
SABR Games Project stories written by Larry DeFillipo
- August 19, 1891: King Kelly slides back into Boston for Reds win before jumping to Beaneaters
- May 9, 1891: Old Hoss Radbourn’s 300th win, rediscovered
- April 19, 1890: Rochester registers its first win in American Association
- July 6, 1889: Columbus starts lefties at second base, third base, and shortstop in loss to St. Louis
- May 27, 1888: Bridegroom Adonis Terry no-hits Louisville on a Sunday in Queens
- October 18, 1886: Chicago’s John Clarkson ‘calcimines’ the Browns in World Series opener
- July 11, 1886: The Cincinnati Beer Glass Riot
- April 22, 1886: Visiting Athletics walk off Metropolitans in inaugural game at St. George Grounds
- June 8, 1885: Presto Change! Cannonball Morris dominates after overhand pitching is suddenly legalized
- September 15, 1884: White Stockings outshine Eclipse at Louisville’s ‘lit’ Southern Exposition
- July 10, 1880: Cleveland’s Jim McCormick, Fred Dunlap end Chicago’s 21-game winning streak
- May 13, 1880: Cincinnati battery of Will White, John Clapp does it all in one-hit shutout of Cleveland
- May 8, 1878: Rookie Sam Weaver tosses 1-hitter according to official scorer, but not all his colleagues
- August 8, 1877: Brown Stockings’ Mike Dorgan wears a catcher’s mask and widespread adoption soon follows
- July 3, 1877: Louisville’s Charley Snyder becomes first major leaguer to wear a catcher’s mask
SABR Journal Articles written by Larry DeFillipo
SABR Research Topics written by Larry DeFillipo
SABR Research Articles written by Larry DeFillipo
SABR Ballparks written by Larry DeFillipo