New Jersey’s Hall of Famers

New Jersey is more than the land of Bruce Springsteen, Tony Soprano, and the Meadowlands.  It is also the home state for three players in the Baseball Hall of Fame. In a career spanning 1888 to 1901, Billy Hamilton played for the Kansas City Cowboys, the Philadelphia...

Three Men On a Base

When Charles Ebbets died in 1925, Ebbets Field remained as an emblem of his dedication to bring high-quality baseball to Brooklyn.  The play on the field, less so. Hitting a one-in-a-million line drive to a second baseman that fuels an unassisted triple play in the...

Building A Corporate History Library

A corporate history is only as good as the resources that inform it. A corporate history library, in turn, is only as good as the books that populate it. A corporate historian may want to consider the triad approach, consisting of primary books, secondary books, and...