Contributors
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Lisa Alexander is a graduate student in the American Culture Studies Program at Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio. She is currently working on her dissertation, tentatively titled “Race on First, Class on Second, Gender on Third, and Sexuality up to Bat: Major League Baseball and the Matrix of Domination.”
Frank Ardolino is a professor of English at the University of Hawaii, in Manoa, who has recently combined his two major interests—Shakespeare and sports—in two articles on the presence of Shakespeare in sports films.
Lawrence Baldassaro is professor of Italian and director of the honors program at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the editor of Ted Williams: Reflections on a Splendid Life (Northeastern University Press, 2003) and coeditor of The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002).
Robert and David Barney are twin brothers who are emeritus faculty members at the University of Western Ontario and the Albuquerque Academy, respectively. Native New Englanders, they have followed the (mis)fortunes of the Boston Red Sox since 1939, when they were seven years old. The finish of the 2004 season has made this sixty-five-year infatuation all worthwhile.
Charlie Bevis is the author of two books on baseball history, Sunday Baseball: The Major Leagues’ Struggle to Play Baseball on the Lord’s Day, 1876-1934 (2003) and Mickey Cochrane: The Life of a Baseball Hall of Fame Catcher (1998). He has also written numerous articles on baseball history, including “Holiday Doubleheaders,” published in the 2004 edition of Baseball Research Journal. Bevis was a 2003 recipient of the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award for his presentation “Evolution of the Sunday Doubleheader and Its Role in Elevating the Popularity of Baseball,” made at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. He makes his home in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Michael J. Bielawa is a Mets fan and the author of Bridgeport Baseball (Arcadia Publishing, 2003). Currently he is working on a collection of English and Japanese poetry entitled Baseball Haiku: A Seasonal Journey around the Base Path.
Ron Briley is assistant schoolmaster at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Peter Carino is professor of English and coordinator of the Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture at Indiana State University, in Terre Haute. A frequent contributor to NINE, he is a lifelong Mets fan, Yankee hater, and White Sox and Cubs sympathizer.
Peter Ellsworth is a first-year master’s student in history at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario. He is specializing in Canadian cultural history. His current research project centers on the history and cultural implications of Maple Leaf Gardens.
Dave Fitzsimmons teaches American social history at Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio.
George Gmelch is professor of anthropology at Union College, in Schenectady, New York, and was formerly a first baseman in the Detroit Tigers organization.
Mary Groebner is fortunate to have had a father who gave her a love and appreciation for the game at an early age, in the magical land of southern Minnesota, where baseball and farming go hand in hand. At present she lives in Olympia, Washington, and is a graduate student at the University of Washington, Tacoma, campus, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, and a Seattle Mariner season ticket holder. She is currently researching Major League Baseball’s Dominican and Venezuelan baseball academies.
Leslie Heaphy is an associate professor of history at Kent State University, Stark Campus. She also coordinates the honors program at Stark and is the author of The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960 (McFarland, 2003).
Mike Lackey is a columnist for the Lima (Ohio) News. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and holds a bachelor’s degree from Earlham College.
Chris Lamb, an associate professor of media studies at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina, is the author of Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training, which he hopes will be made into a movie. His favorite movie is Bull Durham (followed in no particular order by Bang the Drum Slowly, Eight Men Out, The Natural, and Field of Dreams). However, he argues that the...
