About Me

Hello! Thanks very much for looking at my blog and website. I created it at the beginning of 2020, but started to use it in the winter of 2020-2021 to share my painted baseball cards. I've also done quite a bit of writing, including reminiscences about the game, notable players, and baseball cards in my collection. I expect to adapt some of those for this blog, and would look forward to thoughts and comments from you.

Let me share a bit of my biography to put my work in context. I've believed for much of my life that our past is prologue, and our experiences inform who we are and what we do throughout our lives. Growing up in Rockville, Maryland, I had a lot of interests; I read a lot, spent quite a bit of time at the Smithsonian museums, and went to one or two Baltimore Orioles games a year. From my dad, I learned about the limited exploits of the second Washington Senators (the ones that played in RFK Stadium from 1961 to 1971). It was with him that I learned why there are some seats painted white at RFK (because moon-shot home runs from Frank Howard landed there).

I went to Walter Johnson High School, named for the great Senators pitcher who pitched for them for twenty years, led them to the 1924 World Series title, and made is home near the site that the school was built in 1956. I started collecting cards in about 1987, and many of my card paintings focus on that era. I also work quite often on cards from the Senators and Nationals.

Careerwise, my background is in international relations, and later business analysis. I've worked for consulting firms, trade associations, companies, and now I'm a contractor at the National Library of Medicine at NIH, helping them measure the effectiveness of their digital products. (You can learn more on my LinkedIn profile.) Currently, I conduct quite a bit of survey research, and with my team am doing quite a bit of data visualization, most often involving historical baseball statistics. I also teach in the graduate data analytics and data visualization program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. (Take a look at my Tableau Public page to see some visualizations that I've created for baseball and on the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.) As I've mentioned on other pages here, I'm a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), a fantastic organization dedicated to quantitative and qualitative baseball research including analytics, history, and the arts.

Please stay a while and look around -- and leave a note to let me know who you are. Click on the follow button, walk through the virtual galleries, let me know what you think -- and watch this space...