Ralph Carhart

Ralph Carhart is a Brooklyn-based theatre director and manager, as well as a baseball historian. He is the head of the Society for American Baseball Research’s 19th Century Baseball Gravemarker Project, which gives recognition to the game's pioneers who passed without being afforded a marker at their final resting place. Ralph is the recipient of the SABR 19th Century Committee’s 2015 Chairman’s Award and the Baseball Reliquary’s 2019 Hilda Award. He is the creator of The Hall Ball, an epic photo essay featuring pictures of (almost) all of the members of the Hall of Fame, living and deceased. His story was featured in the New York Times and on the CBS Evening News. His book, "The Hall Ball: One Fan’s Journey to Unite Cooperstown Immortals with a Single Baseball," was published by McFarland & Company in June 2020. He is also a frequent contributor to SABR publications, including volumes on the New York Mets, the Negro Leagues, and a forthcoming exhaustive look at Jackie Robinson.