Contributors
- Contributors
elliot chester is a senior at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he is a double major in history and mathematics. A native of Brick, New Jersey, and a long-suffering Mets fan (and an intern with the team in the summer of 2013), he hopes to pursue a career in sports journalism after he graduates. He would like to thank Professor Eiko Maruko Siniawer, chair of the Williams history department, for encouraging him to pursue this project, even in its nascent stages as a comically vague desire to write a term paper “about baseball.”
larry gerlach is professor emeritus of history at the University of Utah, past president of sabr, and author of The Men in Blue: Conversations with Umpires (Lincoln: Bison Books, 1994).
felix harcourt is a doctoral student at The George Washington University and an editorial fellow of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project.
alan s. kornspan is an associate professor in the Department of Sport Science and Wellness Education at the University of Akron.
philipp löeffler is assistant professor in the Department of English at Heidelberg University. His teaching focuses on twentieth-century American poetry and fiction. His first book will be entitled Pluralist Desires: Contemporary Historical Fiction and the End of the Cold War (Rochester ny: Camden House, forthcoming).
ken sammond has a PhD in comparative literature from Rutgers University. A Brooklyn Dodger fan through the quirk of family inheritance, he is a senior lecturer and associate director of the honors program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His research interests focus on imagined communities, nationalism, and exile, enabling him to explore diverse texts ranging from Vergil’s [End Page 158] Aeneid and Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses to literary depictions of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
janet marie smith is an architect and urban planner. As senior vice president of planning and development for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Smith is currently overseeing the renovation of Dodger Stadium. Smith was the Baltimore Orioles’ vice president of planning and development during the design and construction of Oriole Park at Camden Yards; she oversaw the preservation of Fenway Park and the transformation of Olympic Stadium into Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves. In 2012 the Boston Baseball Writers honored Smith with a Special Achievement Award for her work at Fenway Park. In 2011 she was named in the inaugural class of the SportsBusiness Journal’s “Game Changers: Women in Sports Business.”
gerald c. wood is distinguished professor of English emeritus from Carson-Newman College. His biography of Smoky Joe Wood, legendary pitcher and outfielder from the dead-ball era, was awarded the 2014 Seymour Medal. [End Page 159]
