About the Story Series
This is the 29th year I’ve been researching and writing the story series, which for many years was one of the longest running pre-game shows in major league history -- celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2009.
I’ve particularly enjoyed doing the text version which has an enthusiastic and rapidly growing audience. This format allows me to do so much that could not be done with the radio show, like adding charts, pictures, and interesting research notes.
The basic principle is to simply tell a good baseball story that is also true, and with due diligence to try and get the facts right. The final key component is to keep it brief, not to overwhelm the readers with a research article but to simply tell them a story in a couple of pages. It is meant to be more entertainment than education, but I’d consider it a failure if it weren’t also gently teaching the readership about the history of the game, which is in part learning the cultural history of our country.
My grandfather was born in 1884 and passed in 1988. He had a lot to share, and his stories were how I first learned about the history of the game and became interested in it. Those stories taught me a lot, but really, first and foremost, they were interesting stories. That’s how I want "A Page from Baseball’s Past" to work.
Craig Wright
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I’ve particularly enjoyed doing the text version which has an enthusiastic and rapidly growing audience. This format allows me to do so much that could not be done with the radio show, like adding charts, pictures, and interesting research notes.
The basic principle is to simply tell a good baseball story that is also true, and with due diligence to try and get the facts right. The final key component is to keep it brief, not to overwhelm the readers with a research article but to simply tell them a story in a couple of pages. It is meant to be more entertainment than education, but I’d consider it a failure if it weren’t also gently teaching the readership about the history of the game, which is in part learning the cultural history of our country.
My grandfather was born in 1884 and passed in 1988. He had a lot to share, and his stories were how I first learned about the history of the game and became interested in it. Those stories taught me a lot, but really, first and foremost, they were interesting stories. That’s how I want "A Page from Baseball’s Past" to work.
Craig Wright
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