Contributors
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Frank Ardolino is a professor of English at the University of Hawaii who has recently combined his two major interests—Shakespeare and sports—in two articles on the presence of Shakespeare in sports films.
Robert K. Barney is presently Professor Emeritus and Founding Director Emeritus of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
David E. Barney is embedded in a forty-plus-year career as head varsity swimming coach for both boys and girls at the Albuquerque Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Ron Briley is a history teacher and assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School, where he has taught for thirty years. He is also an adjunct professor of history at the University of New Mexico–Valencia campus. His work on sport and film has appeared in numerous scholarly articles and anthologies. Ron has followed the fortunes of the Houston Astros since they were the Colt .45s in 1962.
Alan Davison has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in sports administration from the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
Michael Epstein is an assistant professor and Reference and Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of San Diego. His current research interests include the cultural history of sports and recreation and nineteenth-century baseball. Michael is an avid softball player and enjoys playing year-round in sunny San Diego.
Joshua Fleer holds a MA in American church history from Pepperdine University (2006). He wrote his master’s thesis on baseball’s function within America’s civil religion.
George Gmelch is a professor of anthropology at Union College in upstate New York and was formerly a first baseman in the Detroit Tigers organization.
