Tom Altherr Dedication: Difference between revisions

From Protoball
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 3: Line 3:
This page is reserved for a dedication for [[Tom Altherr]].
This page is reserved for a dedication for [[Tom Altherr]].


Tom Altherr's work on early ballplaying played a big part in Protoball's decision to launch an open-ended account of accumulated evidence on the origins of base ball.  Protoball was conceived in a period when several academic writers had written books on the earliest days of ballplaying.  We newcomers had the impression that everything findable had aleady surely been dug up.
Tom Altherr's work on early ballplaying played a big part in Protoball's decision to launch an open-ended account of accumulated evidence on the origins of base ball.  Protoball was conceived in a period when several academic writers had written recent books on the earliest days of ballplaying.  We newcomers had the impression that everything findable had already surely been dug up.


Tom personally disproved that impression. He set forth to find more early references, and brought many more to light.  We judge that about 150 of Protoball's chronology entries came from Tom.  And he found a lot of them the old way . . . not be surfing the web at a comfy desk; he did a lot of it by visiting sub-basement collections far and wide.  [add selected biblio here]  Tom's search was not limited to bsse ball and its predecessor baserunning games -- there are a lot of ballgames that resemble field hockey, hand-ball, etc.  But Tom's lode gave us hardball fiends fresh data, and inspired our own digging.
Tom personally disproved that impression. He set forth to find additional early references, and brought many more to light.  We judge that about 150 of Protoball's chronology entries came from Tom.  And he found a lot of them the old way . . . not by surfing the web at a comfy desk; but by visiting sub-basement document collections far and wide.  [add selected biblio here]  Tom's oen search was not limited to base ball and its predecessor baserunning games -- there are a lot of ballgames that resemble field hockey, hand-ball, etc.  But Tom's lode gave us newcomers fresh data, and inspired our own digging, much of it taken from online sources.

Revision as of 11:45, 3 February 2021

Chronologies
Scroll.png

Prominent Milestones

Misc BB Firsts
Add a Misc BB First

About the Chronology
Tom Altherr Dedication

Add a Chronology Entry
Open Queries
Open Numbers
Most Aged

This page is reserved for a dedication for Tom Altherr.

Tom Altherr's work on early ballplaying played a big part in Protoball's decision to launch an open-ended account of accumulated evidence on the origins of base ball. Protoball was conceived in a period when several academic writers had written recent books on the earliest days of ballplaying. We newcomers had the impression that everything findable had already surely been dug up.

Tom personally disproved that impression. He set forth to find additional early references, and brought many more to light. We judge that about 150 of Protoball's chronology entries came from Tom. And he found a lot of them the old way . . . not by surfing the web at a comfy desk; but by visiting sub-basement document collections far and wide. [add selected biblio here] Tom's oen search was not limited to base ball and its predecessor baserunning games -- there are a lot of ballgames that resemble field hockey, hand-ball, etc. But Tom's lode gave us newcomers fresh data, and inspired our own digging, much of it taken from online sources.