Marshall Wright is a
baseball
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historian
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. Born in
LaGrange, Illinois
''(the barn)''
, nickname =
, motto = ''Tradition & Pride – Moving Forward''
, anthem = ''My La Grange'' by Jimmy Dunne
, image_map = File:Cook County Illinois Incorporated and Unincorporated areas La Grange Highlighted.svg
, mapsize = 26 ...
and raised in
North Riverside, Illinois
North Riverside is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 7,426.
Geography
North Riverside is located at (41.846222, -87.829585).
According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, North R ...
, he resides in
Quincy, Massachusetts
Quincy ( ) is a coastal U.S. city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county and a part of Greater Boston, Metropolitan Boston as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2020 was 1 ...
.
Wright graduated from the
Bill Kinnamon Umpire
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The term derives from the Old French nonper, ''non'', "not" and ''per'', ...
School in 1980. He has been an employee of Howe Sportsdata (now SportsTicker) since 1994.
He has written several books on the history of
minor league baseball. In 1998, he received the Sporting News - SABR Baseball Research Award for his book on the
International League
The International League (IL) is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in the United States. Along with the Pacific Coast League, it is one of two leagues playing at the Triple-A level, which is one grade below Major League Baseball ...
.
Wright has been a member of the
Society for American Baseball Research
The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball primarily through the use of statistics. Established in Cooperstown, New ...
(SABR) since 1987.
In 1998, Wright and fellow baseball historian
Bill Weiss William J. Weiss (June 2, 1925, Chicago – August 16, 2011, San Mateo, California), was an American baseball historian and statistician. He served as the official statistician for the Pacific Coast League, and edited a weekly newsletter for ...
were chosen by minor league baseball to choose
.
References
Bibliography
*''Nineteenth Century Baseball: Year-By-Year Statistics for the Major League Teams, 1871 Through 1900'' ()
*''The American Association: Year-By-Year Statistics for the Baseball Minor League, 1902-1952'' ()
*''The International League: Year-by-year Statistics, 1884-1953'' ()
*''The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870'' ().
*''The Southern Association in Baseball, 1885-1961'' ()
*''The Texas League in Baseball, 1888-1958'' ()
External links
Society for American Baseball Research Official Site
American sportswriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
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