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
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
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.