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About
this Site
This site is dedicated to the sport with the
longest and richest history our country has to offer, the great game of
Baseball. It is an informational site where baseball fans, young and old
alike, can go back and learn about and embrace the great moments the
game has offered the past 100 plus years. There is a strong bias with
most of the information leaning towards the faces, places and events
that existed in the baseball world before World War II. The Fun
Facts and Firsts and Lasts sections
offer a chronological look back at the memorable games and events that
at one time actually took place on the baseball gardens. The 1901-1919
section will have the scores and brief game accounts of those games from
that era. The Men of Yesteryear section
looks back at many of the names and faces that were on baseballs stage
prior to World War II. Many of the names will sound familiar, but we
don't know much about them. A short bio and statistics will revive the
players and individuals that helped shape the National Pastime. The Lost
Parks section looks back at several of the ballparks that have
fallen victim to the ball and bulldozer. Most of them have been
demolished but they were the parks that hosted many of the greatest
moments the game has seen. There's
some Trivia for you to try your hand at.
Warm up with some easy ones, then take a swing at some pretty tough
ones. I have some Cards for sale or trade
posted here. In no way am I trying to make this sell my collection
website. If you see anything of interest, e-mail me. There are more than
a dozen other different sections you can check out as well, hopefully a
little bit of something for all my visitors.
Why this site was created?
Who was Sam Crawford? What
ballpark became submerged under 21 feet of water in 1937? What was the
final score of the Phillies/Giants game at the Polo Grounds on April 23,
1904? Who was the hitting star? The answers can all be found in this
website presentation. Sure, most of all of the faces seen here have long
succumbed to father time. This web site if nothing else will show their
efforts were not in vain. All of the games and scores here have long
been buried away and have become the compiled statistics we see when we
open up the Baseball Encyclopedia. This website attempts to show those
little fragments of information and who did them. By revisiting the
past, we may even be able to appreciate what past generations of fans
enjoyed about the Pastime. Sure the players are different, the ballyards
are all new, but the game has remained remarkably the same in its
delivery to us. The wild plays, colorful characters and tense 9th
inning struggles have been part of the makeup of baseball for well over
100 years. So, let’s keep the torch lit for all that came before us.
And Finally...
This site has, and will be, continually under
construction, with some minor additions here and there. Months may pass
without many changes, then there may be a new section or two added or
completed within a week. The
What’s New page will keep track of
noteworthy additions or updates to this site. The deadball
scores/accounts and the The 'Men of Yesteryear' sections are sections I
have a strong desire to complete or update when time permits.
I’m open to suggestions about content or errors here. I’d
also like feedback about the plusses or minuses about daveyball.com.
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