Tom Altherr Dedication
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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 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.