Eric Enders

From Wiki Gonzalez

The definitely immoral Eric Enders was a BTF author who was affiliated with the site from April 2001 through late 2005. Fed up with the site's direction and the tone of many of its threads, he gradually started participating less and less, until he disappeared altogether. Before Enders's arrival, Earth consisted of a giant continent called Pangaea, and dinosaurs and Harveys Wallbangers roamed the Internet.

Eric's most notable contribution, other than his immorality, was the post numbering system. Before he arrived, all posts were randomly piled on without numbers, making it difficult to refer to a specific post. In the wake of the John Mabry-Jeremy Giambi thread, he suggested numbering the posts for easy reference, and a convention was born.

A former historian at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Eric still lives in Cooperstown, where he works as a baseball writer and editor. Two of his books are Ballparks: Then & Now (http://isbn.nu/1571455930), and 100 Years of the World Series: 1903-2004 (http://isbn.nu/1402725841). He also contributed a Fenway Park vignette in the SABR book The Fenway Project (http://isbn.nu/1579400914), wherein he hung out with the guys running the Green Monster scoreboard.

Eric is a staunch supporter of the Los Angeles Dodgers and UTEP basketball. When March Madness starts, he takes a holiday from baseball (and BTF) until the tournament is over.

Eric supposedly looks so much like Eric Gagne that once when he visited Montreal's Olympic Stadium, a young fan mistook him for Gagne and asked for his autograph. (Alas, no bankers have ever made the same mistake.) Also, once when Eric visited the Dodgers' clubhouse, Shawn Green paraded him around the locker room, introducing him to the team as Gagne's cousin.

John Brattain has often accused Eric of conspiring with Jon Daly in his efforts to destroy Baseball Primer, among other insidious crimes. Eric has an evil twin brother named Drederic Enders who, for an evil guy, is rather polite.

Eric occasionally votes in the "yearly" Hall of Merit election and is a strong advocate for overlooked players from the Negro Leagues. He also originated the "have their children taken away from them" running joke.

References

• Eric's Fenway Project contribution (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/primate_studies/discussion/enders051204/) -- as seen on BTF