Contributors
- Contributors
Frank Ardolino is a professor of English at the University of Hawaii.
Charlie Bevis teaches writing at Rivier College in Nashua, New Hampshire. He has written several books on baseball history, most recently Doubleheaders: A Major League History (McFarland, 2010). He received the McFarland-SABR Research Award in 2005 for his article "Rocky Point: A Lone Outpost of Sunday Baseball in Sabbatarian New England," which was published in the Fall 2005 issue of NINE.
Peter Carino is a professor of English and Met fan, who teaches writing, American literature, and baseball literature, at Indiana State University. Rob Edelman teaches film history at the University at Albany. He is the author of Great Baseball Films and Baseball on the Web, and contributed essays to a range of baseball-related books (Baseball in the Classroom: Teaching America's National Pastime; Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond; Total Baseball; and The Total Baseball Catalog) and publications (Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game; Baseball America; The Baseball Research Journal; The National Pastime; and Memories & Dreams).
Trey M. Eggleston is the Director of Advancement at the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, an organization dedicated to systemic public policy changes on behalf of low-income Virginians. He is a graduate of the University of Richmond and VCU's Center for Sport Leadership. He lives in Richmond with his wife Kate.
Sebastian Itman Bocchi, a native of Montevideo, Uruguay, holds a Master of Science degree in communication from Ithaca College. Itman has been an intercollegiate soccer player, a competitive surfer, a soccer coach, a physical education instructor, and a trainer in Uruguay's Soccer Premier League. [End Page 172]
Carrie W. LeCrom is the Director of Instruction and Academic Affairs at the Center for Sport Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is active in the field of international sport, focusing on sport for development and peace, and has published articles in the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics and Sport Marketing Quarterly, in addition to presenting at various conferences.
Patricia Rodríguez María was raised in a bicultural Dominican-American world, splitting her time between the two countries. After completing her Master of Science in communication at Ithaca College, she worked in public relations through the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development's InteRDom program in Santo Domingo.
Jason A. Martin is currently an Associate Community Manager at Communi-space Corporation, where he researches consumer insights for clients to better reach their audiences. He is also a huge Washington Nationals fan, and hopes to see them win a World Series or have Teddy Roosevelt win a Presidents' Race in his lifetime.
Jacqueline McDowell is an assistant professor within the Department of Recreation, Sport & Tourism at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research interest is in diversity management strategies and the effectiveness of diversity initiatives in sport organizations. Within this line of research she has explored such subjects as the influence of diversity management perspectives on occupational segregation and identity negotiation outcomes.
William Harris Ressler teaches marketing communication and research at Ithaca College. Working with professional and college athletes, he has planned, carried out, and evaluated cause-related marketing campaigns, and has studied the psychology of social identity. His research includes how cause promotion benefits athletes and media brands that partner with athletes.
After receiving her Bachelor's degree in English, Victoria A. Seymour worked in the sports department of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She co-wrote "One-Hit Wonders" as part of a research project during her time in graduate school at the Center for Sport Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University. Seymour is a die-hard baseball fan and supports both the Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves. [End Page 173]
Jason Sosa is a lecturer within the sport management program at Rice University. His primary research area is in diversity management strategies, and he has investigated individual and group level diversity, as well as Latin Studies in sport.
Matt Ventresca is a doctoral student at the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) where he studies sport, media, and nationalism. He holds a Masters of Arts degree from Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario...
