Contributors
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rebecca alpert is a professor of religion at Temple University. Her latest book, Religion and Sports: Case Studies, will be published by Columbia University Press in 2015.
robert f. garratt is a professor of English and humanities at the University of Puget Sound, where he teaches modernism and nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. He is the author of a number of books on modern Irish literature, the most recent being Trauma and History in the Irish Novel (Palgrave, 2011). With Steve Treder, he is cowriting the Horace Stoneham biography for sabr’s BioProject.
michael haupert is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. His teaching and research interests are economic history and the economics of the sports and entertainment industries.
lee lowenfish’s Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman won both the sabr Seymour Medal and an American Library Association Choice Award. He delivered the 2008 keynote at the nine Conference (later published in the journal) with the rueful question in the title, “Whatever Happened to the Marvelous Importance of the Unimportant?”
robert a. moss is a research professor and Louis P. Hammett Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His baseball memories begin with the 1947 Dodgers, who set a standard seldom equaled and never surpassed.
mitchell nathanson is a professor of legal writing at Villanova University School of Law. He is the author of A People’s History of Baseball and The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit. He would like to thank Dominic Origlio for his invaluable research assistance. [End Page 171]
jason winders is a PhD student in sports history at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Robert K. Barney. Born in Mattoon, Illinois, Winders has transitioned from a twenty-year newspaper career into the postsecondary sector, now serving as Western’s director of editorial services. He is married to Amy Miles, with whom he has a daughter, Athena; twin sons, Peter and Alexander; and a dog, Cash. [End Page 172]
