Contributors
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William E. Akin is professor of history and athletic director at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania. His world-view was shaped by a childhood spent rooting for the Washington Senators.
Frank Ardolino teaches Shakespeare at the University of Hawaii. His recent research in sports history and films includes the relationship between Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and the use of Shakespeare in sports films.
Bob Boynton has been doing amateur baseball writing since retiring from academe in 1991. His next (and probably last) research publication, which analyzes the ever-increasing time required to play World Series games, will appear in the 2001 edition of Joe Wayman’s Grandstand Baseball Annual.
Darryl Brock is the author of the baseball-related novels If I Never Get Back, Havana Heat, and Two in the Field.
Saul Nathaniel Brody is professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at the City College of the City University of New York. He learned about baseball while rooting for the New York Giants in the Polo Grounds and says that as a kid he actually shook Babe Ruth’s hand in Yankee Stadium.
Gene Carney edits “Notes from the Shadows of Cooperstown,” available at the Baseball Archive Web site www.baseball.com. Look for his second book, Cooperstown Kalaideoscope, in 2002. Gene lives in Utica, New York, and works at the Arc of Onedia-Lewis, helping persons with development disabilities find and retain jobs in the community. His article “At the Hall with Rainman” appeared in NINE in spring 1998.
John Christgau is the author of five books. He is a native of Minnesota who now lives in California.
Ronald W. Cox is a political science professor at Florida International University in Miami. He is coauthor of U.S. Politics and the Global Economy with Daniel Skidmore-Hess.
Michael J. Haupert is a professor in the economics department at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. He grew up a Cubs fan and started rooting for the Brewers as well when they switched to the National League. For obvious reasons, he gets most of his research done in October.
Ron Kaplan is a writer from Montclair, New Jersey. His work has appeared in such publications as Baseball America, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Mystery Review, and January Magazine, among others. He writes the book columns for Purebaseball.com and Metsonline.net.
Lee Lowenfish, an adjunct professor of American history at Montclair State University in New Jersey, is completing a new biography of Branch Rickey to be published by the University of Nebraska Press.
Dorothy Jane Mills, an independent scholar, is the widow of and lifetime collaborator with Dr. Harold Seymour, historian of baseball. She is also the author of seventeen books of her own, along with many articles, and has started her own publishing company. In 2002, she plans to launch a new Web site, www.HaroldSeymour.com. She lives in Florida with her husband, Roy E. Mills, a retired officer of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Robert Nowatzki is an assistant professor of English at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He specializes in African American literature as well as nineteenth-century American literature, with a focus on slavery, blackface minstrelsy, and the intersections of race and masculinity. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but grew up in Milwaukee and has been a diehard Brewers fan for over a quarter-century.
Jim Odenkirk is professor emeritus from Arizona State University in Tempe. He is author of Plain Dealing, a biography of Gordon Cobbledick, the Hall of Fame baseball writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He currently teaches American history at Boise State University in Idaho.
Frank Otto was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is with the Office of Bilingual Education of the New York State Education Department in Albany.
Richard J. Puerzer is an assistant professor of industrial engineering at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. He is a member of SABR, and his work has appeared in FAN Magazine and in the anthology of papers from the 2000 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture.
Samuel O. Regalado is a professor of history at California State...
