Spider Baum Website Debuts
 

Pacific Coast league pitcher Spider Baum was my great-grandfather and I've created a website to honor his baseball career. The site is incomplete, we need to add captions to photos and correct some type, but it's now open for viewing. You will find contributions by a wide range of baseball authors, dozens of newspaper articles from the early 1900's, scans of Spider's baseball cards and many photographs from our family archives. You'll be able to read a 1911 Sacramento Bee article that reports a foul ball pitched by Spider soared out of the ball park and hit his 2 year-old daughter, my grandmother, on her head as she sat in a baby carriage, temporarily paralyzing her. Should you have stories, photos or signed contracts to contribute I'd love to hear from you. Regardless, let me know what you think of the website: www.spiderbaum.com

Mark that was well done, thanks for sharing

Wow - very nice site and a great tribute to your great-grandfather. Nicely done!

baum
 

congrats, Mark---a great way to honor a fine legacy.

best,
barry

very impressed with the site and a great tribute to your family

Nicely done!

Good job, Mark. Love the photos. Spider wearing his bowler hat sitting with his wife and small child on the front stoop reminds me of the scene in The Godfather II in which Vito sits with his family outside their apartment building. And some of those pristine cards -- The D311, Big Eater, etc. -- would make any PCL collector drool.

Awesome site
 

Mark,

Great job on your site!

Thanks for sharing.

This is the kind of thread we need more of around here.

Thanks again,

Patrick

Wonderful web design. Well done.

Wow .. very impressive website!!

aL

Spider Baum Website
 

Excellent website Mark!:)

Fantastic site !
 

Tip of the cap to you Mark ! Well done, indeed.

Loved the cards. The colour variations were pretty neat to look at.

The site was very well done. The links flowed extremely well and the design makes it easy to look at. Kudos!

Mark - Congratulations on your site, it is quite the tribute and I'm sure you enjoyed putting it together. Thanks for sharing!

RC

Loved the site. It is great to see hard work pay off in such a manner. When I did my site posting some of the Zeenut cards was gratifying because they were so hard to find.
Well done!

Very Nice!
 

Mark,

pm me, I have some additonal info on Spider's siblings and parents.

Scott