View Full Version : Spider Baum Website Debuts
Mark Morris
07-30-2009, 11:24 PM
Pacific Coast league pitcher Spider Baum was my great-grandfather and I've created a website to honor his baseball career. The site is incomplete, we need to add captions to photos and correct some type, but it's now open for viewing. You will find contributions by a wide range of baseball authors, dozens of newspaper articles from the early 1900's, scans of Spider's baseball cards and many photographs from our family archives. You'll be able to read a 1911 Sacramento Bee article that reports a foul ball pitched by Spider soared out of the ball park and hit his 2 year-old daughter, my grandmother, on her head as she sat in a baby carriage, temporarily paralyzing her. Should you have stories, photos or signed contracts to contribute I'd love to hear from you. Regardless, let me know what you think of the website: www.spiderbaum.com
Jay Wolt
07-30-2009, 11:33 PM
Mark that was well done, thanks for sharing
slantycouch
07-31-2009, 05:15 AM
Wow - very nice site and a great tribute to your great-grandfather. Nicely done!
ethicsprof
07-31-2009, 11:17 AM
congrats, Mark---a great way to honor a fine legacy.
best,
barry
deadballera
07-31-2009, 11:32 AM
very impressed with the site and a great tribute to your family
Nicely done!
Anthony S.
07-31-2009, 11:46 AM
Good job, Mark. Love the photos. Spider wearing his bowler hat sitting with his wife and small child on the front stoop reminds me of the scene in The Godfather II in which Vito sits with his family outside their apartment building. And some of those pristine cards -- The D311, Big Eater, etc. -- would make any PCL collector drool.
Vintagecatcher
07-31-2009, 06:07 PM
Mark,
Great job on your site!
Thanks for sharing.
This is the kind of thread we need more of around here.
Thanks again,
Patrick
baseballart
07-31-2009, 07:08 PM
Wonderful web design. Well done.
sporteq
07-31-2009, 07:19 PM
Wow .. very impressive website!!
aL
Dan Carson
07-31-2009, 08:07 PM
Excellent website Mark!:)
DixieBaseball
07-31-2009, 11:19 PM
Tip of the cap to you Mark ! Well done, indeed.
zork1974
08-01-2009, 09:25 AM
Loved the cards. The colour variations were pretty neat to look at.
The site was very well done. The links flowed extremely well and the design makes it easy to look at. Kudos!
rc4157
08-01-2009, 03:32 PM
Mark - Congratulations on your site, it is quite the tribute and I'm sure you enjoyed putting it together. Thanks for sharing!
RC
Mozzie22
08-02-2009, 05:09 PM
Loved the site. It is great to see hard work pay off in such a manner. When I did my site posting some of the Zeenut cards was gratifying because they were so hard to find.
Well done!
Mark,
pm me, I have some additonal info on Spider's siblings and parents.
Scott