Tom Shieber

Tom Shieber (born in 1964) was the founder of SABR's Pictorial History Committee in 1994 and was its chairman and editor of its newsletter for the first years of its existence. The committee is dedicated to retracing the iconographic history of baseball, including the collection and proper identification of ancient team photographs. Shieber located the oldest known such photograph, that of the 1855 New York Gothams. He is also the editor of the Baseball researcher blog, which goes into the details of how baseball research is conducted.

He spent his early career as a solar physicist, working at an observatory in California, but in 1998 was appointed a curator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY, rising to the rank of senior curator.

In 2018, he was honored as a recipient of the Henry Chadwick Award for his contribution to baseball research.

Further Reading

• Mark Armour: "Tom Shieber", Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Vol. 47, Nr. 1 (spring 2018), pp. 123-124.