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199 Contributors Dr.Lisa Doris Alexander is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit.She received her Ph.D.in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University. Her research deals with issues of race,class,gender,and sexual identity in professional sports and popular culture . She is the author of the book When Baseball Isn’t White, Straight and Male: The Media and Difference in the National Pastime (McFarland). Her work has appeared in Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace (University Press of Mississippi), NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture , and Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues. Dr. Kathleen A. Bishop received her Ph.D. from New York University where she is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She has edited two books,The Canterbury Tales Revisited: 21st Century Interpretations and Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations, and has published articles on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Dr. Bishop has presented her research at conferences in the United States and Europe. Formerly , she spent over ten years as an editor at McGraw-Hill, and she served two terms as first vice president of ACT-UAW (the NYU/New School faculty union). Dr. Angela J. Hattery is a sociologist and serves as the Associate Director of the Women and Gender Studies Center at George Mason University. Her research focuses on social stratification, gender, family, and race. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and books, including Social Dynamics of Family Violence (2012, Westview Press), Prisoner Reentry and Social Capital (2010), Interracial Intimacies (2009), Interracial Relationships (2009), Intimate Partner Violence (2008), African American Families (2007), and Women, Work, and Family (2001). Dr. Jack Lule is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Journalism and Director of Global Studies at Lehigh University.His research interests include globalization and media, international communication, and cultural and critical studies of news. He is the author of Globalization and Media: Global Village of Babel (Rowman & Littlefield) and the award-winning Daily News, Contributors 200 Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism (Guilford Press). Called “a landmark book in the sociology of news,” the book argues that ancient myths can be found daily in the language of the news.He is also the author of more than fifty scholarly articles and book chapters, is a frequent contributor to numerous newspapers and periodicals, and has served as a commentator about the news on National Public Radio, BBC, and other media outlets. He is a member of the editorial board of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly and Critical Studies in Media Communication. Lisa R. Neilson is a teaching associate in the English and Writing Department at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She has taught at Marist since 2001. Prior to that, she showcased her writing talents as a sports columnist for the Journal Register’s Sunday Freeman for seven years, where her work appeared in more than four hundred publications. Her research focuses on early baseball in the Hudson Valley as well as a wide range of aspects of American baseball. She has presented her research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. She teaches Composition, Introduction to Literature, and the History of Baseball at Marist. Dr. Roberta J. Newman teaches in the Foundation Studies program at New York University,where she teaches a course on baseball.She is the author and coauthor of numerous articles on sports and is the coauthor of a book-length study of the economic ramifications of desegregated Major League Baseball on the African-American business community. Elizabeth V. O’Connell is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, studying U.S. popular culture and gender identity during the early years of the Cold War. Her dissertation, Gods of the Diamond, Heroes of the Republic: Major League Baseball and American Manhood , 1945–1963, analyzes the construction of a hegemonic masculine image among major league ballplayers across a variety of media. She has developed a survey class in American popular culture history, as well as electives studying the Walt Disney Company and its relationship to American society and a thematic course, Popular Culture and the American Child. Dr. David C. Ogden is Professor of Communications at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he has taught since 2001. His research focuses...