Eugene Murdock
Eugene Murdock (1928-1992) was a prolific baseball researcher and past SABR Board President who left behind an essential baseball biography and several dozen interviews with old ballplayers. He joined SABR one month after its founding in 1971 and was a frequent contributor to the annual Baseball Research Journal. He was the author of three acclaimed baseball books: Ban Johnson, the Czar of Baseball; Baseball Players and Their Times: Oral Histories of the Game, 1920-1940; and Baseball Between the Wars: Memories of the Game by the Men Who Played It. His oral history interviews and the rest of his extensive research papers are available at the Cleveland Public Library.
Related links:
- Eugene Murdock received the SABR Salute in 1991
- Read Eugene Murdock’s early articles from the SABR Baseball Research Journal
- Learn more about the Eugene C. Murdock Collection at the Cleveland Public Library
- Listen to Eugene Murdock’s oral history interviews with Smoky Joe Wood, Ernie Shore, Joe Sewell, Charlie Grimm, and more (CPL.org)