User:Just me
From BR Bullpen
- Name: Jeff
- Location: Sacramento, CA actually suburbs
- League: Out of my
- Affiliation: California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels
- Lives For: My Family , Baseball , and the Dallas Cowboys (Felix Jones and Mike Jenkins)
Contents |
Biographical Information
I've lived in the Sacramento area most of my life. I started collecting baseball cards with the 1982 Fleer set (They're ugly with bad photography, but they're still special to me). That's where I discovered Rod Carew which was my portal to being a long suffering Angels fan (nightmares of '86, yelling at Sportcenter in '95). Not sure why I started idolizing Ted Williams, but I do.
other information
1 wife, 2 kids (they love me despite my addiction to the Bullpen)
other useless information
B.S. in Chemistry
- I believe Branch Rickey was the most influential person in baseball history (farm system / color barrier / expansion)
- I believe Ron Santo to be the most qualified player to not be elected to the HOF.
- just my opinions
cool sites
- MWL Guide.com
- Paper of Record.com
- NCAA's school site finder
- KsE
Bullpen Interests
- My first project was adding the "Cities Represented" tables to the various league pages
- I have been trying to add year-by-year tables for all minor league teams (this one starts and stops as I find other things that interest me).
- I have been adding managerial tables to as many managers as I can find
- I have been adding as many junior colleges as I can find to various player pages (and creating many of the JC pages)
- I have been adding lesser known family members from the various Registers I have picked up (between 1946 and 1990 at this point)
- I have been trying to create a list of scouts from the Guides that I have picked up (1946, 1953, 1955, 1962-1966, 1968-1986) and hope to add as much of that as I can in the future.
- I try to eliminate double redirects, unused/wanted categories and unused files.
- The latest thing I have been noticing is missing managers in The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball. I have the first and second editions, and the second edition is probably the best source around for minor league managers of the past 120 years. But its not perfect. There are a lot of missing mid-season managerial changes. Paperofrecord.com has proved invaluable in remedying these discrepencies.
- And I usually find myself meddling in the recent projects of others (That's what makes the Bullpen great - seeing another contributor's work and thinking of other things to add and/or branch off)
- SABR sent me their manager database, and I am going through that making suggestions and corrections.
- And I might just leave way too many notes on the discussoin pages.
