Baseball historian Peter Morris is a two-time winner of the Seymour Medal for best baseball book of the year and was an inaugural winner of the Henry Chadwick Award for lifetime achievement in baseball research. He lives in Haslett, Michigan. William J. Ryczek is a finance professional from Wallingford, Connecticut, who writes about early baseball, football, the Yankees, and the Mets. Jan Finkel, a retired English professor, serves as chief editor of the SABR Biography Project. He lives in Swanton, Maryland. Leonard Levin, a retired newspaper editor, is a SABR member and twice a national officer of the society. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Richard Malatzky has worked with Bill Haber through SABR’s Biographical Committee researching missing players. He lives in the Bronx, New York.
“a comprehensive reference source on the genesis of baseball”—Library Journal; “The early history of baseball has witnessed a tremendous growth in research into its origins, teams, and players in recent years. Base Ball Founders makes a major contribution to this expanding knowledge base...the vast information that is added to the pioneers’ era of baseball by this volume and the previous volume of Base Ball Pioneers makes them essential to a library of nineteenth-century baseball”—Against the Grain; “this is the new holy grail of early baseball”—19 to 21.
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