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Friday, November 14, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Researchers help Library of Congress
They're identified only as "Chicago players."Members of the Pictorial History Committee of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) are pitching in to help the U.S. Library of Congress identify old time baseball players in its photo collection.
The Library of Congress has begun uploading photos from the early 20th Century Harris & Ewing Photo Collection to its web site. So far, it has about 3,600 photos from that collection on the web. Search on the keyword "baseball" and you will find 295 photos.
Trouble is, most of the people in the pictures are identified only as "baseball players." Putting names to faces is a huge undertaking. The Library of Congress possesses tens of thousands of photos from the Harris & Ewing Collection. It will upload additional batches of photos gradually, and hopes eventually to have the entire collection on-line.
Photographers Harris & Ewing, Inc. photographed people, events, and architecture, particularly in Washington, D.C., during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing gave its collection of negatives to the Library of Congress in 1955.
SABR researchers previously worked to improve the captions of the Bain Collection of photos on the Library of Congress web site.
Was this the mascot, or the lawn mower?
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
What baseball researchers talk about
Reporter Peter Holehan of the Forum Publishing Group in Florida attended the Oct. 23 meeting of the Society of American Baseball Research South Florida Chapter in Tamarac, Florida. He wrote an interesting story that neatly captures the appeal of the hobby. His story appears on the South Florida Sun-Sentinel web site. Here are a few excerpts:
"Local author Paul Proia, tells the real-life experiences of Rube Waddell, the player who had a learning disability and matured only one year for every three of the average person's life.
And then Proia speaks of how Waddell rose to become one of the game's best pitchers and held the single-season and single-game strikeout records from the early 1900s until 1973 when Nolan Ryan set the bar a few pegs higher.
"Guys in the group such as Raymond Gonzalez have followed the history of baseball so closely and so precisely that record books have been re-written. In one instance, old-time Chicago Cubs slugger Hack Wilson was found to have an extra RBI that was left off the records. Instead of 190 runs batted in, it was revealed that Wilson actually had 191.
"People come in to bring baseball memorabilia such as old-dated cards, autographs and photos. People can even pick up and swing a bat that is over 80 years old. It's all a part of the meeting among a room filled with baseball aficionados. There are stories that are so rarely told and others that remain timeless.
"Founded in 1971, the Society of American Baseball Research has nearly 7,000 members worldwide. SABR representatives include anybody who loves and is interested in the history of the baseball."
"Local author Paul Proia, tells the real-life experiences of Rube Waddell, the player who had a learning disability and matured only one year for every three of the average person's life.
And then Proia speaks of how Waddell rose to become one of the game's best pitchers and held the single-season and single-game strikeout records from the early 1900s until 1973 when Nolan Ryan set the bar a few pegs higher.
"Guys in the group such as Raymond Gonzalez have followed the history of baseball so closely and so precisely that record books have been re-written. In one instance, old-time Chicago Cubs slugger Hack Wilson was found to have an extra RBI that was left off the records. Instead of 190 runs batted in, it was revealed that Wilson actually had 191.
"People come in to bring baseball memorabilia such as old-dated cards, autographs and photos. People can even pick up and swing a bat that is over 80 years old. It's all a part of the meeting among a room filled with baseball aficionados. There are stories that are so rarely told and others that remain timeless.
"Founded in 1971, the Society of American Baseball Research has nearly 7,000 members worldwide. SABR representatives include anybody who loves and is interested in the history of the baseball."
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