The Case For: A Baseball Hall of Fame Podcast
Attorney and baseball fan extraordinaire Russell Christian discusses former Major League Baseball players and makes the case for or against their enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
The Case For: A Baseball Hall of Fame Podcast
Episode 32 - An Interview with Ted Knorr about Rap Dixon
Ted Knorr has been a member of SABR since 1979, has attended over 60 SABR conferences, and started Negro League Commemorative Nights in Harrisburg, Lancaster, and York, Pennsylvania. In 1997 he founded SABR’s Negro League Conference, now called the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference. A lifelong trivia fan he chased the SABR Conferences team trivia title starting in 1984 and finally won the title in 2022. He also won the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference title in 2009, the only person in SABR to have won both! Ted recently attended this year’s Jerry Malloy Conference, his 25th such conference.
Ted discuss the HOF case for Rap Dixon, who started his career with the Harrisburg Giants in 1924 and played for 12 years, retiring with a career .336 batting average and .969 OPS. His best season was 1928 with the Baltimore Black Sox when he led the league in WAR, Games played, hits, triples, home runs, RBI, stolen bases, walks, slugging, OPS, OPS+ and total bases.
Rap is one of many players from the Negro Leagues who deserve a plaque in Cooperstown!
