Baseball America - History

History

Founded in 1980, Baseball America established itself as one of the top baseball-only publications and has since grown into a full-service media company. Founder Allan Simpson began writing the magazine from Canada, originally calling it the All-America Baseball News. By 1983, Simpson moved the magazine to Durham, North Carolina, after it was purchased by then-Durham Bulls owner Miles Wolff. Simpson has since resigned his position at the magazine, and the publication has been passed on to co-editors in chief John Manuel and Will Lingo. Today, Baseball America is home to a ten-man editorial staff. It also uses out-of-office correspondents for its print content.

The publication was once known for using statistics sparingly, and primarily emphasizing stats like wins and batting average when it did. Since the departure of Simpson, Baseball America has started using the newer batting average/on-base percentage/slugging percentage stat line when referring to hitters in place of the traditional batting average/home runs/runs batted in stat line.

Source Interlink Media bought Baseball America in 2011.

Baseball America is published bi-weekly in print and on the web. Every issue features coverage of the majors, minors, college and high school baseball. Other features include reviews and analysis of prospects as well as tracking the progress of the best players in amateur baseball and the minors. Other annual publications produced by the company include Baseball America Almanac, Baseball America Prospect Handbook, Baseball America Directory, Super Register and Prospects Plus. The website features specialty blogs about the business of baseball, college baseball, high school baseball, prospects and the draft.