Friday, May 21, 2004
Doug Pappas passed while on vacationion at Big Bend National Park in Texas. For those who don't know, Doug was the long time chair of SABR's Business of Baseball research committee. More or less any question about payroll, the CBA, stadium funding or how dollars were connected to baseball in any way could be answered by him. I'd met him a couple of times, he was a good guy. He'll be missed.
He was one of those people, who when he passes, one of the first things you realize is that you are saddened not only because a good human being died, but because he was the person in his field whose book would have been the standard, and now that book will never be written.
posted by David 9:16 PM
