Contributors
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Frank Ardolino is a professor of English at the University of Hawaii.
Jack Bales is the Reference and Humanities librarian at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Carla Bailey, interlibrary loan supervisor at the University of Mary Washington; Dick Bales, Chicago historian and assistant regional counsel with Chicago Title Insurance Company; freelance writer Paul Dickson; Chicago Tribune reporter Bill Hageman; baseball historian Ed Hartig; Jan Perone, newspaper librarian for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library; and Tim Wiles, director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jim Leeke is a writer and editor in Cheat Lake, West Virginia. He has written several biographies for the Baseball Biography Project. His blog is Uncle Sam’s League: Baseball News from World War I.
Dan Levitt recently completed The Battle That Forged Modern Baseball: The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy, published by Rowman & Littlefield under its Ivan R Dee imprint. He is also the author of Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees’ First Dynasty, a Seymour Award finalist, and co-author (with Mark Armour) of Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got that Way, winner of The Sporting News/SABR Baseball Research Award. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two boys.
Jeffrey Marlett teaches religious studies and American culture at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. He is the author of Saving the Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural America, 1920–1960 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002). [End Page 143]
Dave Ogden is associate professor in the School of Communication at the University of Nebraska–Omaha. Ogden’s research focuses on baseball and culture, with specific emphasis on the relationship between African American communities and baseball. His work can be found in NINE, the Journal of Leisure Research, the Journal of Black Studies, the Journal of Sport Behavior, and the Great Plains Research Journal. He is co-editor of Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations and Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace, both published by the University of Mississippi Press.
Richard Parker is assistant professor of American literature at the University of Gaziantep in Turkey. He has worked variously on modernism, and is currently working on a full-length work on second-generation American modernism. Other interests include sports literature, poetics, and contemporary British poetry. He is also the founder and organizer of the London Cantos Reading Group and the editor and printer of the Crater Press poetry pamphlet series. In the summer of 2011, he was the convener of the Ezra Pound International Conference, and he remains a member of the organizing committee.
Joseph Stanton is a professor of art history and American studies at the University of Hawai‘i–Mãnoa. An interdisciplinary scholar and writer, his work frequently involves the intersection of sports history, art history, and literary history. He has published two baseball books—Stan Musial: A Biography and Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball. His other books include A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban O‘ahu, Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art, What the Kite Thinks, A Hawai‘i Anthology, and The Important Books: Children’s Picture Books as Art and Literature. His work has appeared in such sports journals as Elysian Fields Quarterly, Aethlon: Journal of Sport Literature, Fan, SportLiterate, and Spit Ball, as well as Poetry, Harvard Review, Journal of American Culture, American Art, Art Criticism, and Michigan Quarterly Review.
David Walsh has spent his career working for state and local government. He is currently serving as Chief Information Officer at the New York State Education Department. He published his first poem in 2011.
Kevin Warneke is a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in leadership studies. He has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska–Omaha for the past fifteen years. Warneke, who has worked in newspapers and public relations, serves as chief executive officer of Ronald McDonald House Charities in Omaha. He also has taught at Creighton University and Bellevue University. [End Page 144]
