

He is employed as a Program Development Manager for a training organization in Glasgow. Matt has been a writer since May 2009 focusing on current happenings in the majors, minor league ball in the Philadelphia region and the hometown Phillies.īorn in England, Bedingfield lives in Glasgow, Scotland and is recognized as a leading expert in baseball during WWII. The most accurate description of his level of interest in the game was given by a friend who referred to him as a “baseball degenerate.” Along with his fascination with the history of baseball Matt, gets most enjoyment from attending minor league games because of the “grass roots feel of the game” he gets from the smaller ballparks. Matt has been a member of SABR and the Connie Mack Chapter since 2009. Louis’ Forgotten Champions of 1928” was published in SABR’s Mound City Memories in 2007. He maintains a database on major league ballparks, has been a contributor to Total Baseball and The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, is helping coordinate the SABR Minor League Committee Minor League Encyclopedia project, and his article, “St. He works for a travel technology company. His work has also been featured in SABR books about the 1912 Boston Red Sox and 1914 Boston Braves.Īnother SABR member, Johnson lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma with his wife and two daughters, but grew up in St.

His second book, It Ain’t So: A Might-Have-Been History of the White Sox in 1919 and Beyond, was released by McFarland in December 2009. His first book, Harry Frazee, Ban Johnson and the Feud That Nearly Destroyed the American League, was published by McFarland Publishing in 2008 and was named a finalist for the 2009 Larry Ritter Award in addition to being nominated for the Seymour Medal. He lives in Portland, Oregon and has been writing for web sites since 1999, has been published by The Oregonian newspaper, and has been a member of SABR since 2004. He was born in the heart of Red Sox nation in the year of Yastrzemski and has been a die hard Red Sox fan ever since. Lynch has been a baseball fan since he was old enough to hold a bat and ball.

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