About Us
When Seamheads.com was launched in October of 2007, it was founder Mike Lynch’s goal to build a large writing staff which would add insight, experience, and passion to the website. A lot has happened in the past two and a half years—Tim Lincecum has won two Cy Youngs, Jim Rice finally made the Hall of Fame, the Yankees won their 27th World Series. And Seamheads.com has taken a giant step towards making Lynch’s dream a reality.
In early 2010, 36 writers joined Seamheads.com, pushing the rapidly growing website’s roster to 65 strong. As a group, Seamheads.com writers have authored or co-authored 85 books about baseball. Their work has appeared in more than 100 publications, including ESPN The Magazine, The Sporting News, the Boston Globe, New York Post, Total Baseball, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Daily News, Baseball Digest, Street & Smith’s Official Baseball Yearbook, The Baseball Research Journal, Baseball Illustrated, Bill Mazeroski’s Baseball, Cincinnati Enquirer and Cincinnati Post, Detroit Free Press, Elysian Fields Quarterly, ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, El Nacional in Venezuela, Houston Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The National Pastime, the Oregonian, Washington Times; and on 20 web sites, including MLB.com, Fox Sports, Baseball-Reference.com, and SportingNews.com.
Among the Seamheads.com ranks are former Major League second baseman and author Jack Perconte; digital publishing pioneer Sean Lahman; Hall of Fame research associate and author Gabriel Schechter; former ESPN senior writer Jon Pessah, who helped launch ESPN The Magazine; Dan Schlossberg, author of 35 books and on-air host for BallTalk, which also features former major leaguer Jay Johnstone, and a host of other current or former professional sportswriters and news men and women who will be covering all aspects of The Game from the 19th century to today.
Seamheads.com’s eclectic staff also includes multiple members of The Society For American Baseball Research (SABR); a writer who appears weekly on ESPN Radio; a man who’s running for mayor of Cooperstown; a leading expert in baseball during World War II; an on-air reporter for WGAM Sports Radio; two descendants of former major leaguers; a former Associated Press stringer; an associate scout for the Minnesota Twins; a French sports broadcaster and author in Canada; the host of “Ford Sports Open Line” at KMOX Radio in St. Louis; and a man who served as a chief spokesman for commissioners Bowie Kuhn and Peter Ueberroth as well as Public Relations Director for the Denver Bears of the Pacific Coast League, and Publicity Director for the Kansas City Royals.
We’ve recently featured a roundtable discussion on Roger Clemens launched by one of our new contributors, Jon Pessah, who recently sat down with the Rocket. We’re also featuring Pessah’s story on Clemens, which originally ran on TrueSlant.com.
That’s the kind of story and debate we expect to give our readers on a regular basis. In the coming year, we hope to provide readers with the most informed, literate, and entertaining baseball content available on the Internet. Check out our new writers, as well as the talented crew already on board that has made Seamheads.com one of the fastest growing baseball sites around.
