Contributing Diggers
This project can be as overwhelming as an Amos Rusie fastball. That’s why we need you, the baseball historian. If you have a thread of information to share, please do.
Diggers of the World Unite
A “digger” is someone who loves to find information long buried in library stacks and newspaper scans. We borrowed this term from protoball.org, and it is our hope that we will discover several historians in each city who are committed to our cause and who can send us new discoveries or volunteer research time.
There’s a lot of information buried out there—we just need to dig.
The following have contributed information and/or photographs for use on this website.
CALIFORNIA
—Macfarlane, Angus. Focus: San Francisco Bay Area.
—Lorey, Carson. Focus: 19th-century.
—Reitan, Peter. Focus: Early sports and pop culture. Blog: esnpc.blogspot.com
CANADA
—Humber, William. Focus: Canada.
—Lacoste, Martin. Focus: 19th-century Canada and Guelph, ON.
—Martin, Chip. Focus: 19th-century Canada and London, ON.
—Mckinney, Justin. Focus: Information about lost or little-known players. Blog: Baseball Obscura
—Rennie, Steve. Focus: Ottawa area and 19th-century origins.
—Scheibler, Will. Focus: Canada and Ontario.
CONNECTICUT
—Arcidiacono, David. Focus: Connecticut.
—Roer, Mike. Focus: Nineteenth Century, Connecticut, Orator O’Rourke, Helen Dauvray, World Tour of 1889, Baseball War of 1890.
—Scarpa, Steve. Focus: New Haven.
FLORIDA
—Kissel, Tony. Focus: 19th-century black baseball and 19th-century minor league baseball.
GEORGIA
—Morris, Alan. Focus: 19th-century Atlanta.
—Sloope, Terry. Focus: Southern Association of late 1920s and William V. “Jumbo” Barrett.
—Wallace, Sam; official historian and archivist for the Atlanta Braves. Focus: Braves history, 1871-present.
ILLINOIS
—Fimoff, Mark; Co-chair, SABR 19th-century Pictorial Committee. Focus: 19th-century pictorial history.
—Smith, Cary; Co-chair, SABR 19th-century Pictorial Committee. Focus: photograph and player identification, 19th-century Western League and St. Paul. Twitter: https://twitter.com/zbdigitalibrary
—Stokes, Don. Focus: Pre-1920, photo colorization. Examples: www.facebook.com/pages/Don-Stokes-Old-Time-Baseball-Colorizations/
INDIANA
—Betsch, Chris. Focus: Louisville.
IOWA
—Gonsowski, Joe. Focus: Detroit, and the baseball cards of the Goodwin Company.
KANSAS
—Bonewitz, D.R. Focus: Early Kansas baseball.
KENTUCKY
—Meiman, Chris. Focus: National, Louisville.
—Miller, Cam. Focus: Cincinnati.
—Sudduth, Jerry. Focus: Louisville major league clubs. Blog: thefadedchalklines.blogspot.com
MARYLAND
—Hershberger, Richard. Focus: development of rules and organization up to 1885.
—Hickman, Bill. Focus: National pictorial history.
—Mars, Ken. Focus: Baltimore, 19th century.
MASSACHUSETTS
—Pestana, Mark. Focus: professional era, 1871-1900.
—Sheehy, Brian. Focus: Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, 1860-1890.
MICHIGAN
—Lutzke, Mitch. Focus: Page Fence Giants, Michigan minor leagues, 19th-century African-American teams, Detroit Tigers history. Website: www.mitchlutzke.com
—Somoray, Jeff. Focus: 19th-century Detroit and Detroit ballparks.
MINNESOTA
—Gaskell, Corky. Focus: Rochester, Minnesota.
—Tholkes, Bob. Focus: pioneer era, 1845-1865.
MISSOURI
—Kittel, Jeffrey. Focus: St. Louis. Blog: thisgameofgames.com
—Kodner, Gary. Focus: St. Louis Cardinals uniform history.
—Kodner, Oliver. Focus: St. Louis Cardinals uniform history. Website: cardinalsuniformsandlogos.com
—Winter, Paul. Focus: St. Louis baseball history. Website: krispaulw.com/bbstl.html
NEVADA
—Karmik, Thom. Focus: national before 1920 and Chicago. Blog: baseballhistorydaily.com
NEW JERSEY
—Grindler, Bill. Focus: New York (Giants, Metropolitans, and Brooklyn)
—Samoil, Ken. Focus: Team pictures for major leagues 1871-1920.
—Zinn, John. Focus: New Jersey 1855-1870. Blog: amanlypastime.blogspot.com
NEW YORK
—Astifan, Priscilla. Focus: 19th-century Rochester.
—Bielewicz, Paul. Focus: Rochester history, uniforms and ballparks.
—Blau, Cliff. Focus: general, minors.
—Christiano, Gregory. Focus: Lower Westchester County and The Bronx.
—Fiesthumel, Scott. Focus: Central New York.
—Hannan, Tim. Focus: Rochester, especially the 1890 team.
—Kreindler, Greg. Focus: paintings of historic baseball imagery. Website: graigkreindler.com
—Radom, Todd. Focus: national, sports graphics. Blog: toddradom.com/blog Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToddRadom
—Shieber, Tom; Senior Curator, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Focus: national. Blog: baseballresearcher.blogspot.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/tshieber
—Thorn, John; Official Historian, Major League Baseball. Focus: national. Blog: ourgame.mlblogs.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/thorn_john
—Vaccaro, Frank. Focus: game logs.
NORTH CAROLINA
—Ashwill, Gary. Focus: Negro League & Latin American baseball. Blog: agatetype.typepad.com
NORTH DAKOTA
—Batesel, Paul. Focus: National Association.
OHIO
—Feador, Jeremy. Focus: Cleveland, Forest City and Indians teams.
—Husman, John R. Focus: Toledo, 19th-century.
—Phillips, Larry. Focus: 19th century and Cincinnati.
PENNSYLVANIA
—Albertson, Matt. Focus: 19th century and Philadelphia.
—Bard, Charles. Focus: Pittsburgh.
—Britcher, Craig. Focus: 19th-century Pittsburgh.
—Gazdziak, Sam. Focus: Baseball gravesites and obituaries. Blog: ripbaseball.com
—Gray, Barry. Focus: Erie professional baseball teams, 1877 through the Deadball era.
—Kane, Richard. Focus: Scranton. Blog: finner68.wordpress.com
—Morton, Ed. Focus: Historic Philadelphia ballparks and Deadball era.
—Porter, Bob. Focus: Lancaster, PA.
—Terrick, Andy. Focus: 19th-century Pittsburgh baseball and stadiums.
TENNESSEE
—Nipper, Skip. Focus: Nashville.
—Rice, Stephen V. Focus: pre-WWII major league, minor league and Negro league.
—Ryland, Christopher. Focus: Tennessee 1866-1876. Blog: threehandsdead.wordpress.com
UNITED KINGDOM
—Ayres, Nigel. Focus: 19th-century photographs and player identifications.
VERMONT
—McGill, Chuck. Focus: minor leagues and minor league no-hitters.
WASHINGTON, DC
—Flack, Jim. Focus: Washington’s early baseball history, especially career of Jim “Deacon” McGuire.
WASHINGTON STATE
—Brandon, T Scott; Co-chair, SABR 19th-century Pictorial Committee. Focus: 19th-century pictorial history.
WISCONSIN
—Pajot, Dennis. Focus: Milwaukee.