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Other Publications
"From First Baseman to Primo Basso: The Odd Saga of the Original Pirate King
(Tra La!)," NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Volume 15,
Number 2, Spring 2007, pp. 46-65
This is the amazing story of how first baseman John Clark became world famous
opera singer Signor Brocolini, who, among other things, was Gilbert & Sullivan's
original Pirate King.
"Muffin Baseball," NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture,
Volume 12, Number 1, Fall 2003, pp. 133-139
This article was based quite closely on the chapter on muffin baseball in
Baseball Fever
"The International League Pennant Race of 1920," in Dominionball, ed. Jane
Finnan Dorward (SABR: Cleveland, 2005), 19-22
"Canadian-born Major Leaguers," (with Richard Malatzky) in Dominionball,
ed. Jane Finnan Dorward (SABR: Cleveland, 2005), 60-62
" 'Not an Edifying Spectacle,'" in Dominionball, ed. Jane Finnan Dorward (SABR:
Cleveland, 2005), 90-92
I first got involved in baseball research as a college student working
summers at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, then located in Toronto near the
old Exhibition Stadium. So it was fun writing these three pieces for SABR's 2005
annual convention publication. My favorite is the third one, which tells of the
strange 1884 game that help baseball become firmly established in Toronto.
"Walter Walker: One of Baseball's Odd Lives," National Pastime 15 (1995),
97-99
This was a biographical sketch of the first missing ballplayer I ever found,
who led an unusual and extraordinary life.
" 'He Never Was Much with the Stick,' " National Pastime 27 (2007), 33-38
A biographical sketch of great-field, no-hit third baseman Billy Hopke, who
spent the first two decades of the twentieth century in the high minor leagues
without ever playing a major league game.
"Asa W. Smith: The Man Who Put the Sportsman in Sportsman's Park," in
Mound City Memories, ed. Bob Tiemann (Cleveland: SABR, 2007), 82-87
A biographical sketch of a forgotten pioneer of St. Louis baseball that I did
for the 2007 SABR convention publication.
Deadball Stars of the National League, ed. by Tom Simon (Washington :
Brassey's, 2004)
I wrote profiles of Bill Killefer, Homer Smoot and Bill Sweeney for this
collection.
"The First Charley Horse," National Pastime 18 (1998), 59-61
“‘Attaboy!’ Originated from the Dynamic Managing Style
of Hughie Jennings (Detroit Tigers) in 1907,” Comments on Etymology 33, No. 1
(October 2003), 2-4
“Baseball Term ‘Bunt’ Was Originally Called ‘Baby Hit’;
Popular 19c. Lullaby ‘Bye, Baby Bunting’ May Have Produced ‘Baby Bunting Hit,’
Shortened to ‘Bunt,’” Comments on Etymology 34, No. 1 (October 2004), 2-4
"Two Antedatings of Baseball Yannigan," (with Barry Popik) Comments on
Etymology 32, No. 8 (May 2003), 31-32
"Material for the Study of the Obsolete Baseball Term Shoot 'A Sharp
Breaking Pitch,'" Comments on Etymology 32, No. 7 (April 2003), 2-14
"Baseball Guesser and Second Guesser: Antedating OED for Second Guesser
(1937 to 1914) and Clarifying that First Guessers in Baseball Were not Umpires
but Creative-Thinking Managers/Players," Comments on Etymology 33, No. 7 (April
2004), 7-10
"Origin of the Baseball Pitching Slab" (with David Ball), Comments on
Etymology 36, No. 1-2 (October-November 2006), 39-42
Articles that blend my loves of baseball and words.
I've also published numerous reviews, some articles in a newsletter for P. G. Wodehouse
devotees and the
newsletter of the booster club for Michigan State volleyball from March 2004
through March 2006.
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