The first episode of The Outsider Baseball Notebook is with Scott Simkus, author of Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 1876–1950 (2014, Chicago Review Press). Scott is a contributor to the Seamheads Negro League Database and was a consultant on the Strat-O-Matic Negro League Stars card set. We talk about how Scott became interested in outsider baseball and how that led to him writing the definitive book on the topic. We discuss my primary area of interest these days: the 25th Infantry Wreckers army team that was stationed in Hawaii before World War I. Scott collected the Wreckers data for the Seamheads database and shared stories about some of the prominent players of the Wreckers and those who played against them. Finally, Scott takes us through all the branches of the outsider baseball tree, noting particularly strong teams and famous players. Follow Scott on Twitter at @scott_simkus.