Lewis Meacham

Lewis Henry Meacham’s place in baseball history is linked to…
Dave Malarcher (NOIRTECH RESEARCH, INC.)

Dave Malarcher

Dave Malarcher was an erudite, disciplined, and reverent man…
Sam Lacy at his 99th birthday party in 2003 (JOHN MATHEW SMITH, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Sam Lacy

When Sam Lacy was growing up in Washington, D.C., he dreamed…
Leonard Koppett (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Leonard Koppett

A combination of accountant, impresario, and American success…
John T. Powers (COURTESY OF BILL LAMB)

John T. Powers

Like a host of others, the name of John T. Powers was likely…

Willa Bea Harmon

During the 1942 baseball season, many of the articles about the…
Joe Murphy

Joe Murphy

Joe Murphy was a major league pitcher at 19, a world-class sprinter…

Jack Ryder

Baseball writer Jack Ryder covered the Cincinnati Reds with unfailing…

Jocko Maxwell

When radio came along in the 1920s, it brought sports, including…

Jim Kennedy

As organizer and nonplaying manager of the hapless 1890 Brooklyn…

Alan Nathan

Alan Nathan never played in a big-league baseball game. Or in…

Sherman Maxwell

“Believed by many to be the first black sports broadcaster,…

Lou Niss

Team pictures of the New York Mets in the 1960s and ’70s showed…

William F. Kirk

In an era when poetry commonly appeared in sports pages, and…

Allan Roth

Henry Chadwick, baseball’s first historian, tried to capture…

Max Nichols

Max Nichols knelt in an on-deck circle beside Jackie Robinson,…

Fausto Miranda

Fausto Miranda was the dean of Cuban sportswriters. Miranda’s…

John F. Kieran

John Kieran stands among the legends of baseball writing with…

Tim Murnane

From 1872 to 1884, Tim Murnane was a first baseman and outfielder…

Bob McConnell

In 1939, the ESSO Gas Company issued a fifty-page booklet to…

Ernie Lanigan

Note: This article was originally published by SABR in the 1973…

Jake Morse

An influential sportswriter in Boston, Jake Morse helped to shape…

Shirley Povich

As baseball grew more popular, people wanted to keep up with…

F. C. Lane

When he was in his early twenties, biologist Ferdinand Cole Lane,…