The Fan Files is a website dedicated to baseball and the stories of those who love baseball.
New writing about baseball every week.
Cranklets, Lost Diamonds, and the history of non-male figures in baseball
An interview with cartoonist Ellen Lindner
An insider’s look at Japanese baseball
How is Japanese baseball different from American baseball?
Heroes from a Different Era: An interview with Mark Chiarello
An interview with artist Mark Chiarello
Fredrick Douglass, the boll weevil, and hip hop
An interview with Dr. Gerald Early on the history of Black baseball in America
What does it mean to be paid to play a game?
Field Work author Andrew Forbes on baseball, labor, and how we think about the two
