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AN IMPORTANT FIFTH ANNIVERSARY MESSAGE FOR OUR SUBSCRIBERS FROM BASEBALL HISTORY COMES ALIVE
As Baseball History Comes Alive celebrates its fifth anniversary, we not only wanted to thank you, our subscribers, for your continued support, but also to bring you up to date on the ways we’re trying to build and improve our website.
As you probably know, we recently added a blog to complement our essays and photo galleries, giving you our opinions not only on older baseball, but what’s happening with today’s game, along with a chance for you to comment and engage with us. Now we’re looking to expand our reach to more fans of baseball’s great history by sending out a special news release to many major media outlets with the hope that they will recognize the value of our website and give it a mention to their baseball fan readers and listeners.
We’re including a copy of the news release with this post so that you can see firsthand how Baseball History Comes Alive is looking to take still another step toward continuing as the best baseball history site on the web. As always, we hope you will continue to recommend our site to your family and friends who love baseball history as much as we do.
The photo above of Honus Wagner is the first photo we published on the site five years ago. As has become our custom, we like to feature it as part of our yearly anniversary celebration. For the gallery, we’ve assembled some of our favorite photos from over the years.
And again, we thank you for your continued support. The positive feedback we continue to receive from our readers has always made our efforts worthwhile.
Gary and Bill
NEWS RELEASE
Date: May 2, 2021
Baseball History Comes Alive is a website dedicated to preserving the long history of the national pastime. It features essays about the great and colorful players of the past, as well as baseball’s memorable events and teams, the classic ballparks from the early days, and a potpourri of great highlights from the Dead Ball Era through the 1970s. The website has recently added a blog in which, along with other topics, we often give opinions about what is happening with the game today and engage with our readers who, for the most part, are lifelong fans.
The website was started by Gary Livacari some five years ago and now has a library of more than 1200 essays and fifteen thousand photos. Each essay is accompanied by an extensive photo gallery showcasing the subject and giving the reader an even greater feel for the subject. It’s a website that the baseball fan can return to again and again, reading the latest essays and blogs, then scouring the library to look up their favorite players from the past, or almost anything in which they have a great interest. It’s a no-frills site with a plethora of baseball history available to all.
As an example, here are a handful of our recent essays:
Red Schoendienst – Great Baseball Lifer
The 1934 World Series and the Gashouse Gang
Tony Lazzeri Has One of the Greatest Days in Major League History
Chick Hafey – Forgotten Hall of Famer
Tiger Stadium – Simply a Great Ballpark
Robert “Fatty” Fothergill – A Real Heavy Hitter
The Demise of a Great Franchise: The Boston Braves
Great Baseball Photo Collections: The Charles Conlon Collection
A Look Back at 1968, The Year of the Pitcher
Enos Slaughter’s “Mad Dash” Wins the 1946 World Series
The website posts four or five new essays and blogs each week with library archives for both. We’ll also occasionally post videos of great moments and even baseball music from older days. There is simply a huge variety of everything baseball for true fans of the game.
The bulk of the writing is done by Gary Livacari, the website’s administrator and editor, a longtime SABR member and author of several books; and co-editor Bill Gutman, who has written many baseball books over a 50-year writing career. We also encourage guest posts from a handful of contributors. In addition, the scope of the website has led many relatives of former players to contact us who often give us interviews about their famous fathers, grandfathers, or uncles. One of our recent essays on old Sportsman’s Park was picked up by a St. Louis newspaper that ran a story on the site and the essay, and we received a huge response from fans who remembered that classic old ballpark.
We would like to continue growing and expanding our site. We are hoping you’ll consider sharing information about our unique site with your readers, as we feel there are huge numbers of longtime baseball fans in the country who would relish and enjoy it. If you are interested we would be more than willing to send along any essays that would appeal to the baseball fans in your area. We would also be available to be interviewed on your podcasts to speak about the site and our lifelong love of baseball. Gary Livacari has been following the game since the late 1950s and Bill Gutman since the early part of the same decade. We feel that our website offers something different and quite special for fans like ourselves. We also reach more fans by having our essays appear on the Old Time Baseball Photos Facebook page, where the essays often receive more than 1000 likes and much reader response.
Our website can be viewed at: www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com
Contact Information
Gary Livacari: Livac2@aol.com
Bill Gutman: WSGjazz@aol.com
