Miles Wolff (COURTESY OF HOFFMAN WOLFF)

Miles Wolff Jr.

“He’s one of the icons of the industry, no question.” –…

Alfred Henry Spink

The irony is clear to anyone who gives it even the slightest…
Frank "Fay" Young at the Chicago Defender office, 1942. Photo by Jack Delano, courtesy of the International Center of Photography. (USED BY PERMISSION)

Fay Young

Frank Albert “Fay” Young was one of the most influential…
Wendell Smith (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Wendell Smith

Wendell Smith built a media career that would eventually be recognized…
Kyle Traynor (COURTESY OF KYLE TRAYNOR)

Kyle Traynor

Over the past 10 years, baseball fans in Minnesota have been…

Ted Sullivan

The Johnny Appleseed of baseball, Timothy Paul “Ted” Sullivan,…

Walter Schlichter

From 1902 through 1911, Walter Schlichter owned the Philadelphia…

Ina Eloise Young

Although Ina Eloise Young was not the first female baseball writer,…

Melville Webb

As a sportswriter for the Boston Globe, Melville Webb reported…

Gregg Wong

At Target Field, there is a quaint phrase Minnesotans never tire…

William D. Sullivan

As sports editor of the Boston Globe from 1884 to 1910, William…

Walter “Red” Smith

Red Smith, a small, shy man with a commonplace name, was an uncommonly…

Billy Weart

Of the thirteen World Series (1903-1917) covered by Philadelphia…

Manning Vaughan

Manning Vaughan was the main baseball writer of the Milwaukee…

Irving Vaughan

In the summer of 1919, the year the Black Sox threw the World…

Red Thisted

Red Thisted never saw a professional baseball game until he was…

Bob Wolf

On the Chicago Cubs’ Opening Day in 1930, 7-year-old Bobby…

Sol White

Racial discrimination did not miraculously disappear in 1863…

Joe Simenic

If you spend much time at the Hall of Fame perusing the files…

Tom Shea

The Grandstand Baseball Annual 1996 reprinted an article titled…

Charlie Walters

Charley Walters says there were two things he always wanted to…
Fred Tenney (BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, MCGREEVEY COLLECTION)

Fred Tenney

When it came to fielding prowess, the consensus was that Fred…