DAN
GENOVESE
Dan Genovese is a member of
S.A.B.R. and historian/author on the history of baseball in his hometown
of Westfield Massachusetts. He has played all levels of baseball in Westfield
from Little League to college including many years of softball on the same
fields and parks used in the early 20th century. Westfield was a hotbed
of baseball activity in the 19th century and up until now most of this information
uncovered by Genovese has been buried and forgotten. His research has now
turned into a book form and his first volume will be published in the spring
of 2004.
Among the many topics uncovered about early Westfield baseball include:
wicket ball, a rarely known pre-baseball bat and ball game, the rematch
of the first inter-collegiate baseball game played in Westfield between
Amherst and Williams, a local town team of the early 1880s that spawned
many major leaguers which included Walter Camp and that once played host
to the unknown pre-Cuban Giants team known as the William T. Greenes, Westfield's
first major leaguer and Yale great Allen Hubbard, and Adonis Terry, the
forgotten legend of 19th century baseball.
Genovese lives in Westfield with his wife Nancy and daughters, Abby and
Molly and their yellow lab Buffy.
Dan can be reached at: dl.genovese@verizon.net
