WELCOME TO the BASEBALL HISTORY COMES ALIVE Website!

The Internet’s Number One Site for Old Baseball Photos and Essays!

READ THIS FIRST…AND THEN FOLLOW THIS LINK TO OUR HOME PAGE 

 

If you love Baseball History, you’ve come to the right place!

I’m Gary Livacari, and, as you might guess, I’m the editor and administrator of the Baseball History Comes Alive! web site. My goal is to preserve baseball’s rich tradition through interesting photos and essays. All our posts are categorized by subject for easy accessibility and viewing. Most are accompanied by a full photo gallery.

I’m a baseball historian and SABR member who also enjoys writing. My forte is identifying ballplayers in old photos, and my special interest is the Dead Ball Era. For many years I did player identifications for the Baseball Fever web site. I was an editor for the Boston Public Library Leslie Jones Baseball Collection, helping to identify ballplayers in almost 3000 photos from the 1930s and 1940s.

I’ve written four baseball books and I’ve also written a few biographies for the SABR Bioproject, plus numerous articles and book reviews. For the past nine years, I’ve been a co-editor of the Old-Time Baseball Photos Facebook page. We’re very proud that our Facebook page has grown to over 95K followers. We’re also glad to have our resident baseball artist, Don Stokes, as part of our team. Don did the beautiful colorization of Babe Ruth that appears at the top of this page. 

I hope you enjoy Baseball History Comes Alive. We love interacting with our readers, so feel free to add any comments.  You’re invited to subscribe to the page if you’d like to receive automatic e-mail updates. You’ll then receive instant access to my free report: Gary’s Handy Dandy World Series Reference Guide.

Now that you’ve read this introduction, click on the link to return to the home page. There you’ll see all our posts, now well over 1400 in number and fully categorized in a highly visible Pinterest display format. We also have over 950 subscribers to the site. Feel free to glance through the categories (a complete list of over 75 categories can be found in the right sidebar) and “pick and choose” subjects that catch your interest!

One more time: If you love Baseball History…you’ve come to the right place!

Gary Livacari