Contributors
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Dwayne Brenna is a drama professor at the University of Saskatchewan. When he is not directing productions of Shakespeare and Moliere or writing poems, he can be found playing shortstop for an old-timers team called the Riverhurst Thumpers.
Darryl Brock was NINE’s 1999 keynote speaker. He is the author of the historical novels If I Never Get Back, Havana Heat, and Two in the Field, as well as articles dealing with baseball, Mark Twain, and other Americana. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, daughter, and a slick-fielding terrier.
Chris Deubert is a JD/MBA candidate at the Fordham University School of Law and Graduate School of Business, in New York, New York (December 2009). He has a degree in sport management from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.
Bruce Ducker is the author of nine books, most recently Dizzying Heights—a comic novel set in Aspen—and Home Pool—a collection of his popular fly-fishing stories. His work appears in the nation’s leading literary journals, including the Yale Review, Hudson Review, and Poetry Magazine. Winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Macallan Story Prize, he has been nominated for the American Library Association Best Book Award and the Pulitzer. He lives in Colorado.
George Gmelch is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and at Union College in upstate New York. He was formerly a first baseman in the Detroit Tigers organization.
David J. Laliberte is an adjunct instructor of history at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He has written a master’s thesis entitled Indian Summers: Baseball at Native American Boarding Schools in Minnesota, and has articles [End Page 209] forthcoming in The Baseball Research Journal and in Minnesota History. This is his first publication.
Peter Morris lives in Haslett, Michigan, and is a researcher at the Center for Tobacco Use Prevention and Research. He is the author of Baseball Fever (2003), the two-volume A Game of Inches (2006), Level Playing Fields (2007), But Didn’t We Have Fun? (2008), and Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero (2009).
Robert A. Moss is Research Professor and Louis P. Hammett Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This essay repays a debt owed to the Brooklyn Public Library, where the author first encountered John R. Tunis’s novels long ago, when the Dodgers still played in Brooklyn.
Daniel A. Nathan is an associate professor of American Studies at Skidmore College and the author of the award-winning Saying It’s So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal (2003). He is on the editorial boards of The International Journal of the History of Sport and Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues.
Scott D. Peterson teaches literature and technical writing at the University of Maine, where he is working toward an Interdisciplinary PhD in American Literature and Culture. His research has appeared in the 2007 edition of Baseball/Literature/Culture and is forthcoming in The Contested Diamond: An Anthology on Baseball and Politics.
Jeffrey Standen is a baseball fan and a professor of sports law at Willamette University College of Law.
Geri Strecker is an assistant professor of English at Ball State University and is writing a book-length biography of Hall of Famer Oscar Charleston and a spin-off project on pre–World War I baseball in the Philippines. She is copy-editor for Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal (published by McFarland & Company) and with Trey Strecker has written the introduction for a new edition of The Great Match, and Other Matches, combined with Noah Brooks’s Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship (1884), to be published by McFarland & Company in 2010.
Todd J. Wiebe is a Reference and Instruction Librarian/Assistant Professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He is a native of Dundas, Ontario—approximately 70 kilometers southwest of Toronto. A teenager at the time of the 1992 World Series, he was able to attend Game 5 along with his parents and brother and take in the excitement firsthand. [End Page 210]
Glenn M. Wong is a...
