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  • Contributors

Lisa Alexander is a graduate student in the American Culture Studies Program at Bowling Green State University. She is currently working on her dissertation, which is tentatively titled “Race on First, Class on Second, Gender on Third, and Sexuality up to Bat: Major League Baseball and the Matrix of Domination.”

Todd Avery is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. Formerly a long suffering Red Sox fan, his research interests include Virginia Woolf, the Bloomsbury Group, ethical philosophy, and the early history of British radio.

Robert V. Bellamy Jr., a member of the NINE editorial board, is associate professor of media communication at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. His work on sports and media, new media technologies, and media programming has been published in a number of books and journals. He and Jim Walker are currently working on a book on the history of baseball’s relationship with television. He keeps waiting for the Pirates to have a plan … any plan will do.

Lowell L. Blaisdell is emeritus professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He has published articles in SABR’s Baseball Research Journal and guest lectured in and advised the teachers of the “Baseball: A Mirror on American History” course at Texas Tech. A lifelong Cubs fan, he approaches each new season with extreme caution that is the result of many decades of disappointments.

Peter Carino is professor of English at Indiana State University, where he teaches a variety of courses, including one on baseball literature. A frequent contributor to NINE, he is also the editor of Baseball/Literature/Culture: Selected Essays, 1995–2001. Though an admirer of Yankee Stadium, as a diehard Mets fan he hates the team that plays there.

John Christgau is the author of five books. Tricksters in the Madhouse: Globetrotters vs. Lakers, 1948 will appear from the University of Nebraska Press next fall. Christgau’s short stories, articles, essays, and poems have appeared in periodicals in the United States and England. He is a member of the Society of Midland Authors.

Jane Dorward is currently researching early Toronto ballparks. She is the local chair of the 2005 SABR convention, which will be held in Toronto.

Steve Gietschier is senior managing editor, research, for The Sporting News and is a member of the NINE editorial board.

David A. Goss is professor of optometry at Indiana University. He is a third-generation Cubs fan whose father often told him stories about the 1930s Cubs, including walking to Wrigley Field from his aunt’s house and hearing Hartnett’s “homer in the gloamin” on the radio. His baseball research interests include the eye and vision problems of ballplayers and the history of baseball at Indiana University.

Jean Hastings Ardell lives in Corona Del Mar, California, where she works as a freelance writer. Her presentation on the career of left-hander Ila Borders earned the 1999 USA Today Baseball Weekly/SABR Award for Research. Her book about women in baseball is forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press in March 2005.

Jimmy Carl Harris is a retired Marine sergeant major with a doctorate in education from the University of Alabama. He lives to write in Birmingham, Alabama. His short fiction has appeared in the Louisville Review, By Line, Appalachian Heritage, The Tulane Review, and others. His stories have also won a number of prizes, including four Hackney Literary Awards.

Mary Kennan Herbert teaches literature and writing courses at colleges in New York City. She is a Brooklynite and a Mets fan. Six collections of her poems have been published, and her work has appeared in many literary journals, including the Elysian Fields Quarterly. One of her poems is included in Line Drives, an anthology of baseball poetry published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Ron Kaplan, from Montclair, New Jersey, is a frequent contributor to NINE. His work has also appeared in Baseball America, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Mental Floss.

Chris Lamb is an associate professor of communication at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina, where he teaches, among other things, “Baseball, Myth and the Meaning of Life.” He is the...

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