Dave
Baldwin is the only geneticist and only systems engineer
ever to play major league baseball. In Scientific American (May
2000), Steve Mirsky wrote, “Dave Baldwin… is
surely the only person to publish in the Proceedings of the
Entomological Society of Washington and to pitch for that
town's team.”
Pro baseball career (1959 -1974)
- Dave pitched for the Washington Senators, Milwaukee
Brewers, and Chicago White Sox. These and other
teams he played for are in the book Snake Jazz.
Off Season
- Dave earned a Ph.D. (genetics) and M.S. (systems engineering)
at the University of Arizona. Subsequently, he has been
a researcher, engineer, professional artist, and
contented retiree.
Stealing into the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Dave’s painting, “Fugue for the
Pepper Players,” graces the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum
and John Thorn’s book, Treasures of the Baseball Hall
of Fame, Vuillard, 1998.
Science & Baseball
- His articles have crept into the Harvard
Business Review (July/August 2001) and American Scientist (May/June
2005) and other diverse journals. Also, he contributed
a chapter to Biomedical Engineering Principles in Sports (Hung
and Pallus, eds., 2004).
- In 2000 Dave spoke at the Science of Baseball Symposium sponsored
by the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS). His
esoteric topic was the decision processes of baseball
managers.
Poetry
- He writes poetry under the name DGB Featherkile.
Publication credits include: American Poetry Journal, Atlanta
Review, Blue Unicorn, Concho River Review, Evansville
Review, and The Lyric. http://DGBfeatherkile.com
On the Air
- He talked about baseball and higher education, or lack thereof,
on the PBS “All Things Considered” radio
program in 2006.
- Dave appeared on the Scientific American podcast
in March, 2007, to discuss his atypical career
and the weird Japanese pitch, the gyroball.
- He was interviewed on ESPN (“Outside
the Lines”) in the spring, 2007, once again about the gyroball (a
pitch Dave has never thrown).
- On Comcast, and MLB telecasts,
Dave discussed what the batter sees or not as the
ball leaves the pitcher’s hand.
Affiliations
- Dave belongs to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
and the International Society of Experimental Artists (ISEA).
LINKS
Baseball sites:
Engineering Professor Terry Bahill’s baseball web site:
http://www.sie.arizona.edu/sysengr/baseball/index.html
Physicist Alan Nathan’s comprehensive Physics of Baseball web
site:
http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/
National Baseball Hall of Fame:
http://web.baseballhalloffame.org/index.jsp
The baseball statistics goldmine of Retrosheet:
http://www.retrosheet.org
The authors of Savvy Girls of Summer:
http://www.SavvyGirlsofSummer.com
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR):
http://www.sabr.org/
Other sites:
Dave Baldwin’s art:
http://www.alkydair.com
DGB Featherkile’s poetry:
http://www.dgbfeatherkile.com
A description of Dr. Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400062751
Greg Howell’s blog:
http://www.angelfire.com/blog/greg_howell
A SABR article about Dave Baldwin:
http://www.sabr.org/sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,998,34,0
Steve Mirsky’s article about Dave Baldwin (teaser only):
http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=77948A09-7148-411F-99BA-15B38F58BAE
Dave’s American Scientist cover article (with co-authors:
A. Terry Bahill and Jayendran Venkateswaran) describing the pitch
as seen by a hitter:
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AuthorDetail/authorid/1492
Xlibris’ web site:
https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/browse.asp
