Spider Baum Website Debuts

[Mark Morris]

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]

Mark that was well done, thanks for sharing

[slantycouch]

Wow - very nice site and a great tribute to your great-grandfather. Nicely done!

[ethicsprof]

congrats, Mark---a great way to honor a fine legacy.

best,
barry

[deadballera]

very impressed with the site and a great tribute to your family

Nicely done!

[Anthony S.]

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]

Mark,

Great job on your site!

Thanks for sharing.

This is the kind of thread we need more of around here.

Thanks again,

Patrick