Lewis Meacham
Lewis Henry Meacham’s place in baseball history is linked to…
Dave Malarcher
Dave Malarcher was an erudite, disciplined, and reverent man…
Sam Lacy
When Sam Lacy was growing up in Washington, D.C., he dreamed…
Leonard Koppett
A combination of accountant, impresario, and American success…
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 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,…