For this week’s “Conversations with Clayton,” I have interviewed Gregory H. Wolf, the co-director of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)’s Biography Project.
Established in 2002, SABR’s Biography Committee manages the Baseball Biography Project, which aims to write full-length biographies of every player in the history of Major League Baseball. Thus far, the project is about one-quarter of the way to its goal, having completed 4,033 biographies, which are available in the Biography Project’s online database, as well as in more than three-dozen biographical compilation books. Most of the compilations focus on a particular historically significant team, such as the 1957 Milwaukee Braves or the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates.