The jewel in the crown of Samizdata.net
A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR
[Russ.,= self-publishing house]
Learn about the Gadsden flag.

Support Denmark and Free Speech against totalitarian Islam.
Default font size Large font size Larger font size
There is much to find for those who look
White Rose
Print Version
Blogging Glossary
Pictures
Meme hacks
Merchandise
Samizdata for PDA
Syndicate Samizdata.net
XMLRDF
Samizdata.net is one of the 100 most influential blogs in the blogosphere
We are not alone

White Rose protest blog collective

Libertarian Alliance
Libertarian Alliance

Centre for the New Europe

Libertarian International
Liberty's cause transcends
mere national borders





Made possible by...
Web and graphic design by the dissident frogman

Powered by Movable Type
 
May 24, 2004
Monday
 
 
Doug Pappas 1961-2004
Christopher Pellerito (Northern Virginia, USA)  Sports
Trackbacks to this post (0)

Sad news: Economist / baseball analyst / blogger Doug Pappas has passed away at age 43, the victim of heat stroke while vacationing in Texas.

Pappas chaired the Business of Baseball committee for the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR), and his work on the history of baseball's finances was consistently intelligent and provocative. I mention this in Samizdata because Pappas was also one of the foremost opponents of taxpayer funded facilities for professional sports and was thus a friend of liberty as well. Pappas relentlessly criticized commissioner Bud Selig's claims that Major League Baseball needed corporate welfare to survive.

I am a SABR member, but never got to meet Doug Pappas; for more in-depth tributes from people who knew him, see the excellent baseball / war blog Baseball Crank and David Pinto's Baseball Musings, another excellent baseball-only blog.

Comments

Never continue to stand outside in Texas without a hat after your hair begins to smoke.


Posted by Theodopoulos Pherecydes at May 24, 2004 08:22 AM

Just to set the record straight, and he likely *would* care (given his devotion to accuracy), Daoug Pappas was 42 when he passed away. [He would have turned 43 this August.]


Posted by Farley at May 27, 2004 04:26 AM
Post a comment









Remember personal info?


Enter anti-spambot Turing code:





Select some text and click this to format it as a quote Make the selected text bold Make the selected text italic Add a web link


Basic html active.

Alas, but for obscure reasons Mozilla, Mac and Linux users shall not harness to power of the push-button formatting options and shall therefore compose basic html with their bare hands. Yet Mozilla, Mac and Linux users shall not fear, for we shall reveal forthwith the mysteries of Basic Html:

<strong>This text in-between is bold</strong>

<em>This text is in italics</em>

And
<blockquote>This is a quote</blockquote>
Remember to close your opened tags as such: <tag> tagged text and closing </tag> and we promise you will get out of here alive.

For adding links, either use the link URL button on the toolbar or enter your code by hand in the following format:
<a href="http://www.your_link.com">your link text or description here</a>

Movable Type's anti-spambot e-mail address protection is enabled.

You are a guest on private property. Have fun but please be civil and succinct. Blogroaches will be persecuted, not to mention IP banned.

Long third party quotes or articles will also be deleted... so just link to articles you think are germane to your comment, don't quote the whole bloody thing.