My interest in baseball predates any of the other interests noted on these pages and has a part in all of them. I grew up in the Bronx, just over a mile from Yankee Stadium. My father did public relations for Topps, maker of baseball cards and Bazooka bubble gum, and I worked for him for a few years in the 1980s.
I met my wife, Jill, at a Yankee-Red Sox game at Fenway Park, rooting for opposite teams, and vowed, at our wedding, to love her forever or until the Red Sox won the World Series. (I’ve had to renew those vows more times than I’d like.)
My research and writing on baseball crosses over into etymology, Wikipedia, and even Brookline history. This page provides links to many of those activities.
- Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Website
- Gene Woodburn Biography (SABR Biography Project)
- I came upon this baseball-playing ventriloquist through one of my etymology blog posts
- Strange 1912 Doubleheader (SABR Games Project)
- Gene Woodburn Biography (SABR Biography Project)
- Baseball Etymology
- Wikipedia Baseball Articles (Edits, Additions, etc.)
- George Wright (sportsman) (Added info about Wright’s role in a baseball demonstration at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm)
- Triple Crown (baseball) (Added information about the changing meaning of the “Pitching Triple Crown.”)
- Grand slam (baseball) (Added info on early use of “grand salami” for a grand slam)
- Murderers’ Row : (Changed section to “Etymology” and added info on use of term before it was applied to the 1918 Yankees which had been cited as the “original”)
- On-deck (Removed the origin section. It had traced the origin to aircraft carriers, but the term term preceded the first aircraft carrier.)
- ….plus added citation for numerous articles and earlier uses for several terms in the article Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball
- Baseball in Brookline
