Contributors
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Kristin Anderson is associate professor of art at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, where she teaches courses on the history of art and architecture. With her former colleague Chris Kimball, she is writing a book on the ballparks of the Twin Cities, focusing on the interaction of the structures and activities with the urban environment.
Frank Ardolino, a professor of English at the University of Hawaii, has recently combined his two major interests—Shakespeare and sports—in two articles on the presence of Shakespeare in sports films.
Christopher Baas is an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Ball State University. He became fascinated with Bert Griswold’s cartoons while researching the City Beautiful movement in Fort Wayne. Along with popular articles addressing wetland restoration and historic bridge preservation, he has coauthored The Indy 500: 1956–1965, a collection of images by photographer Ben Lawrence.
Ron Briley is a history teacher and assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Danielle Catambay is a graduate student in economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Robert Creamer is a longtime writer and editor at Sports Illustrated and the author of numerous books, including Babe: The Legend Comes to Life, Stengel: His Life and Times, and Baseball and Other Matters in 1941.
Ray C. Fair is a professor of economics at Yale University. His major areas of research are macroeconomics and econometrics. [End Page 176]
George Gmelch is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and Union College in upstate New York. He was formerly a first baseman in the Detroit Tigers organization.
Mary Herbert, originally from St. Louis, Missouri, where as a child she heard Harry Carey announce Cardinal games, now lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches literature courses at Long Island University and roots for the Mets. Her poems have appeared in NINE and Elysian Fields Quarterly, among other journals, and in Line Drives, an anthology of baseball poetry published by Southern Illinois University Press. Her work has garnered several awards, and six collections of her poems have been published by Ginninderra Press in Australia.
Steve Kash studied poetry at Indiana State University. His poems have appeared in Poetry Midwest, LSR, and Journal for the Liberal Arts Sciences/ Oakland City University.
Chris Kimball is provost and professor of history at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, and he once held similar positions at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. Together with his former colleague Kristin Anderson, he has been studying the history of ballparks in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Karl Lindholm is the dean of advising and an assistant professor of American studies at Middlebury College, where he teaches two baseball courses: Baseball as Narrative and Segregation in America: Baseball’s Negro Leagues. He is completing a biography of William Clarence Matthews, early baseball pioneer and political leader.
Frank Otto was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is retired from the New York State Education Department’s Office of Bilingual Education in Albany. He has been a previous contributor to NINE.
Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He has just completed the third edition of Baseball: A History of America’s Game, published by the University of Illinois Press.
Kenneth J. Winkle is chair of the Department of History and Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a specialist in U.S. social, political, and cultural history and quantitative methods. His recent publications include The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War and The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln. [End Page 177]
Darin H. Van Tassell is an assistant professor in the Center for International Studies at Georgia Southern University. He is one of eight members of the International Baseball Federation Technical Commission, and he was assigned to overseeing the baseball competition at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and at the 2003 World Cup in Cuba. A former college baseball coach, Van Tassell was the head coach for the Nicaraguan Olympic baseball team in 1996, which played in the Bronze Medal game in Atlanta. He received his PhD in international studies from the University of...
