Contributors
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Lisa Alexander is a graduate student in the American Culture Studies Program at Bowling Green State University. She is currently working on her dissertation, tentatively titled, “Race on First, Class on Second, Gender on Third, and Sexuality up to Bat: Major League Baseball and the Matrix of Domination.”
Jean Hastings Ardell lives in Corona Del Mar, California, where she works as a freelance writer. Her presentation on the career of left-hander Ila Borders earned the 1999 USA Today Baseball Weekly/SABR Award for Research. Her book, Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime (2005), is published by Southern Illinois University Press.
Frank Ardolino is a professor of English at the University of Hawaii who has recently combined his two major interests—Sakespeare and sports—in two articles on the presence of Shakespeare in sports films.
Bob Boynton has made several research contributions in the 1990s that were published in NINE and other baseball journals. Although he has given up baseball research, he still likes to contribute an occasional book review.
Ron Briley is Assistant School Master at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque.
Darryl Brock is the author of If I Never Get Back (Plume, 2002) and Havana Heat (Plume 2001).
Peter Carino is professor of English and coordinator of the Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture at Indiana State University. A frequent contributor to NINE, he is a lifelong Mets fan, Yankee hater, and White Sox and Cubs sympathizer.
Richard C. Crepeau, professor of history at the University of Central Florida, comments on sports on-line for H-Arete and is the author of Baseball: America’s [End Page 163] Diamond Mind, published by Bison Books, the University of Nebraska Press (2002).
Steve Gietschier is senior managing editor, research, for The Sporting News and is a member of the NINE editorial board.
David A. Goss is professor of optometry at Indiana University. He is a third generation Cubs fan, whose father oft en told him stories about the 1930s Cubs, including walking to Wrigley Field from his aunt’s house and hearing Hartnett’s “homer in the gloamin” on the radio. His baseball research interests include the eye and vision problems of ballplayers and the history of baseball at Indiana University.
Andrew Hazucha is an associate professor of English at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, environmental literature, and the eighteenth century. He is currently coediting a collection of essays with Gerald C. Wood entitled A Social History of the Chicago Cubs.
Mary Kennan Herbert teaches literature and writing courses at colleges and universities in New York City. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, and a childhood Cardinals fan, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York, and roots for the Mets. Seven collections of her poems have been published, and her work has appeared in many journals, including the Elysian Fields Quarterly. One of her poems is included in Line Drives, an anthology of baseball poetry published by Southern Illinois University Press (2002).
Harry Jebsen Jr. is a professor of history at Capital University in Columbus OH.
Anthony K. Lima is a professor of economics at California State University in Hayward.
Karl Lindholm is a professor in the Department of American Literature and Civilization at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. He is currently working on a biography of William Clarence Matthews, Harvard’s Famous Colored Shortstop (1901–05), Baseball Pioneer, and Political Leader.
Franklin Lowenthal is professor of accounting and computer information systems at California State University, Hayward. He received his PhD in mathematics at Stanford University. His main interests have been in operations research and taxation. He is a Silver Life Master at duplicate bridge.
James E. Martin is a retired special agent of the FBI, having served throughout the United States, South Pacific, and Southeast Asia. He is a member of SABR and the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society. He has appeared before [End Page 164] numerous baseball history forums and on radio addressing baseball history and, in particular, early A’s baseball.
Michael McBride is a professor of political science at Whittier College in Whittier, California. He also teaches a freshman writing seminar on “The Literature of Baseball,” coaches...
