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Dan Holmes is a web developer, web consultant, freelance journalist, and blogger living in Northern Michigan. His web portfolio includes Major League Baseball, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, the Basketball Hall of Fame, the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, MyLittleWhiteSpace.com, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. His articles have appeared in magazines (Geneology, Memories and Dreams), newspapers (Wall Street Journal, Detroit Free Press), and online (MotleyFool.com, MLB.com, MilB.com, TheBaseballPage.com, and several more).
From 2001 through 2006, Dan was Web Manager for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, in Cooperstown, NY. In 2006, he was hired by Major League Baseball Advanced Media, where he was a developer and producer in charge of the Hall of Fame web site. Holmes continued to work for MLBAM through the end of 2007.
In 2000, Dan joined Gaylord Digital in Nashville, Tennessee, where he served as webmaster for Songs.com, an e-commerce portal for independent recording artists. Later, he worked on the team that re-launched MusicForce.com, the leading Christian music website.
In 1995, Dan launched The Baseball Page, a baseball history and research website that has gathered a large audience while answering more than 5,000 baseball questions for students.
In October of 2004, Dan’s first book, Ty Cobb: A Biography, was published by Greenwood Press. He contributed to Deadball Stars of the American League, and is one of the authors of Sock it to ‘em, Tigers: The 1968 Tigers Championship Season, which was released in April, 2008.
He blogs regularly for several websites. He also blogs on technology, adventure/travel, books, baseball, and other issues that interest him at www.danholmes.com.
Since 2000, Dan has served as a weekly baseball commentator on WJAB radio in Portland, Maine, and has also appeared on radio stations in Arizona and Michigan. He has also interviewed dozens of baseball players and managers, including Nolan Ryan, Reggie Jackson, Dave Winfield, Bob Feller, Warren Spahn, Stan Musial, Ozzie Smith, George Brett, Wade Boggs, Eddie Murray, Dennis Eckersley, Bruce Sutter, Phil Niekro, Bobby Doerr, Robin Roberts, Ken Griffey Jr., Ichiro Suzuki, Sparky Anderson, Tommy Lasorda, Earl Weaver, Buck O’Neil, Yogi Berra, and many more.