Baseball without Borders: The International Pastime

The Contributors

The Contributors ฀ , one of Brazil’s leading economists, is the associate dean of the Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, University of São Paulo. He is the author of many scholarly articles, and this is his first publication on baseball. Like most Brazilians, his first love is futebol (soccer). ฀ is a journalist and photographer with the Associated Press in São Paulo. He writes extensively on sports. While attending high school in the United States (while his father Carlos was teaching at Ohio State University), he played high school baseball. He later worked as a journalist at a daily newspaper in Florida before returning to Brazil. He follows Major League Baseball closely from São Paulo. ฀ is a professor of English at Indiana State University. His research interests include baseball in literature and culture. He coordinates the annual Indiana State Conference on Baseball and Literature, and is the editor of Baseball/Culture: Selected Essays: – . He suffers the affliction of being a lifelong fan of the New York Mets. ฀ teaches at the Caerlon campus of the University of Wales. He spent the summers of his youth on Minnesota’s small-town diamonds. Having traveled to Latin America while attending St. Cloud State University, he became interested in Cuban baseball. Later, while a PhD student at the University of New Mexico, he did his dissertation research on Cuban politics and baseball. He now specializes in the cross-cultural study of sport and is finishing a book on Cuban baseball since the end of the cold war. ฀ was born in London but grew up in Los Angeles. In he discovered that Great Britain had a national baseball team; he has been a member of the squad ever since. He also played Division I college baseball at Northwestern University and played professionally in the independent Frontier League and in Sweden’s Elite Series. He has worked as a journalist for USA Today and U.S. News & World Report and as an on-air broadcaster of British telecasts of Major League Baseball games. He holds two degrees in journalism from Northwestern and recently finished a law degree at the University of Arizona. ฀ was raised in the United States but immigrated to Australia as a young man. During his second year in Australia he joined the Baulkham Hills baseball club in Sydney, which he still plays for twenty- five years later. While teaching history at a private secondary school, Joe’s baseball coach suggested he investigate the history of Australian baseball. Unable to find any literature, Joe began doing research of his own, which ten years later has led to a PhD dissertation and a book, The History of Australian Baseball. ฀ is Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Anthropology at Union College in upstate New York. He played minor league baseball in the s while studying anthropology at Stanford University in the off-season. He has studied nomads, return migrants, commercial fishermen , Alaskan natives, and Caribbean villagers. Two of his most recent books have been on baseball: In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People and Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball. He is currently doing research on wine tourism in California’s Napa Valley. ฀ is a freelance journalist who has published extensively on international aspects of baseball. He has followed the Red Sox since his father took him to his first baseball game at Fenway Park in the summer of . His interest in global baseball grew out of his love affair with the ballpark atmosphere; he has long been fascinated with the subtle differences in how fans take in a game in other cultural settings. With a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Gordon studied baseball culture in Japan, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Nicaragua. He is the coauthor of Cape Encounters. ฀ is a professor of history and director of the Gorsebrook Research Institute and the Center for the Study of Sport and Community Health at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author and editor of a number of books on sport history, including Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball and Blood, Sweat and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada. ฀ ฀ is a professor of anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies at Yale University. He is a leading authority on Japanese culture and sport. While doing fieldwork in rural Japan in the s and s, he occasionally played in a local farmers’ baseball league...