Contributors
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Lawrence Baldassaro is a professor of Italian and the director of the Honors College 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).
Lowell L. Blaisdell is Emeritus Professor of History at Texas Tech University. 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. He wishes to thank James Harper for his editorial advice on “The Cobb-Speaker Scandal” and “Judge Landis Takes a Different Approach.” A lifelong Cub fan, he approaches each new season with extreme caution that is the result of many decades of disappointments.
Gene Carney lives in upstate New York and has been writing baseball for sixteen seasons. He is the author of Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded (Potomac Books, 2006).
John Christgau is the author of five books, including The Origins of the Jump Shot: Eight Men Who Shook the World of Basketball (University of Nebraska Press, 1999), and Tricksters in the Madhouse: Globetrotters vs. Lakers, 1948 (University of Nebraska Press, 2004). His book “The Gambler and Bug Boy: 1939 Los Angeles and the Untold Story of a Horse Racing Fix” is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press. His short stories, articles, essays, and poems have appeared in periodicals in the United States and England, and he is a member of the Society of Midland Authors.
Bob Gorman is a librarian at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Jean Hastings Ardell is a freelance writer in southern California and the author of Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004). [End Page 168]
Thomas E. Merz, a native of Pittsburgh, grew up at Forbes Field watching the Pirates. He has taught economics at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, for twenty-eight years and often draws from baseball when conveying important messages.
Peter Morris, a freelance editor and writer, lives in Haslett, Michigan. He is the author of Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (University of Michigan Press, 2003) and the two-volume Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball (Ivan R. Dee, 2006). This article is based upon a chapter in Baseball Fever.
Anna Newton is a charter member of the NINE Spring Training conferences and a SABR member since 1989. After twenty years in academia, she is working toward retirement in the corporate world as a training manager.
Bill Nowlin is the author of more than a dozen books on the Red Sox, the most recent being Day by Day with the Boston Red Sox (Rounder Books, 2006), Ted Williams At War (Rounder Books, 2006), and The 50 Greatest Red Sox Games (with Cecilia Tan; Wiley, 2006). He is also cofounder of Rounder Records in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a former professor of political science.
David C. Ogden is an associate professor in the School of Communication at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. His research focuses on baseball and culture, with specific emphasis on the relationship between African American communities and baseball. His work has been published in NINE, the Journal of Leisure Research, and the Journal of Black Studies.
Joel Nathan Rosen is a member of the Department of Sociology at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on a variety of elements in regards to the American sporting terrain and, in particular, its relationship to African America. He is currently in the process of coediting an anthology that will look specifically at questions arising from the intersections of race, sport, and the rehabilitation of once-difficult reputations.
George W. Schubert is Professor and Dean Emeritus at the University of North Dakota. He has authored books, book chapters, and over seventy refereed published papers. He retired from the University of North Dakota in 1999 but continues to research, write, and publish.
Tony Silvia is Director of Journalism and Media Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the...
