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  • Contributors

tim dodson currently lives and works in Bismarck, North Dakota, as an archaeologist for klj. As an avid baseball lover, he is exploring the role that archaeology may have in better understanding baseball’s role in American culture. He would like to thank the Bessemer Society, Cosette Henritze, and the numerous reviewers for all their assistance.

r. a. r. edwards is an associate professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is a lifelong Red Sox fan.

george gmelch is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and Union College and the author of a dozen books, including a recent baseball memoir, Playing with Tigers: A Minor-League Chronicle of the Sixties (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016). He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Minor League Baseball Association for his writings on baseball.

jeremy groskopf is an adjunct instructor of communication and journalism at Averett University. Recently he has been studying baseball narratives in Asian film and television.

chris lamb is a professor of journalism at Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis. His latest book is From Jack Johnson to LeBron James: Sports, Media, and the Color Line (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016).

michael e. lomax is an associate professor of sports history in the Department of Health and Human Physiology at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860–1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary (Syracuse, ny: Syracuse University Press, 2013) and Black Baseball [End Page 203] Entrepreneurs, 1902–1931: The Negro National League and Eastern Colored League (Syracuse, ny: Syracuse University Press, 2014).

robert a. moss is the Louis P. Hammett Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

edmund f. wehrle is a professor of history at Eastern Illinois University. He is the author of Between a River and a Mountain: The afl-cio and the Vietnam War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005) and a coauthor of America and the World: Trade, Warfare, and Ideas (Baltimore, md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). [End Page 204]

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