Contributors
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Tom Aiuppa is professor of finance at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
Frank Ardolino is a professor of English at the University of Hawaii. He has recently combined his two major interests—Shakespeare and sports—in two articles on the presence of Shakespeare in sports films.
Rob Bellamy, a member of the NINE editorial board, is an associate professor of media communication at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Among the courses he teaches are “Media and Sports,” “International Communication,” and “Mass Media and Society.” His patience in waiting for the Pirates to end their ten-year streak of losing seasons probably would be exhausted if not for the delights of PNC Park.
Lowell L. Blaisdell is emeritus professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He has published articles in SABR’s Baseball Research Journal and guest lectured in and advised the teachers of the “Baseball: A Mirror on American History” course at Texas Tech. A lifelong Cubs fan, he approaches each new season with extreme caution that is the result of many decades of disappointments.
Matt Brennan teaches at Indiana State University in Terra Haute. His own baseball poems, including one about his beloved Cardinals, have appeared in Elysian Fields Quarterly, NINE, and elsewhere.
Ron Briley is assistant school master at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque.
Eric Enders is a baseball historian and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times and other publications. He is the author of Ballparks: Then and Now and 100 Years of the World Series. He lives in Cooperstown, New York. [End Page 185]
George Goodman lives in Calgary, Alberta. He is a retired high school principal.
Bob Gorman is a librarian at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Mike 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, from Montclair, New Jersey, is a frequent contributor to NINE. His work has also appeared in Baseball America, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Mental Floss.
Jonathan Kay is editorials editor of the National Post newspaper in Toronto, Canada.
Glenn Knowles is an associate professor in the Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. He grew up as a White Sox fan but has been known to root for the Cubs in sympathy with his coauthors.
Rebecca S. Kraus is a policy analyst for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and a baseball sociologist in her spare time. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the Catholic University of America in Washington DC, having written her dissertation on community sociology and Minor League baseball. Her first book, Minor League Baseball: Community Building through Hometown Sports, is published by Haworth Press.
Peter Morris, a freelance editor and writer, lives in Haslett, Michigan.
William H. Mullins is a professor of history at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee. He has written extensively on the western United States in the 1920s and 1930s. This is his first foray into baseball history.
James Murray is currently working on a Ph.D. in economics at Indiana University in Bloomington. He completed the research for his article as an undergraduate economics major at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
Roberta Newman is a writer and digital artist and a member of the Cultural Foundations faculty of the General Studies Program at New York University.
Richard J. Puerzer is a professor of industrial engineering at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. His work has appeared in FAN magazine, Spitball, and the anthologies of the papers from the 2000 and 2001 Cooperstown Symposia on Baseball and American Culture. [End Page 186]
Keith Sherony is a professor in the Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. He is a lifelong Cubs fan. Enough said!
Trey Strecker is assistant professor of English at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he teaches a course on baseball in American literature and writes about deadball-era fiction.
Charlie Vascellaro works for the Babe Ruth Birthplace and...
