Contributors
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Daniel Bloyce (University College Chester, United Kingdom) is one of the founders of the Chester Centre for Research into Sport and Society as well as senior lecturer in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences. His doctoral thesis is on the globalization of baseball.
Ron Briley is assistant school master at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque.
Jennifer E. Bruening is an assistant professor in the Kinesiology Department at the University of Connecticut. Her research at a broad level examines the barriers and supports for women and minorities in sport. A lifelong Cubs fan, Bruening played Little League for eight years.
Gene Carney lives in upstate New York and has been writing baseball for going on sixteen seasons. His book Burying the Black Sox will be published by Potomac in early 2006.
Justin Crowder is a graduate of Rice University and is currently a pitcher for the class A Stockton Ports (Oakland A’s). He plans to continue his baseball career as long as possible.
Austin Davis is a graduate of Rice University and was the starting center fielder for the Owls’ 2003 National Championship Team. After serving for a year as a graduate assistant at Rice, Davis now works for a commercial real estate firm in Houston.
Marlene A. Dixon is an assistant professor in the Sport Management program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests focus on the workfamily interface in the sport industry. She and her husband are avid Astros and Longhorns fans.
Robert Elias is a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. His baseball mystery novel, The Deadly Tools of Ignorance, is forthcoming from Rounder Books.
Chris Epting is the author of several books, including Roadside Baseball: A Guide to Baseball Shrines across America, published by The Sporting News. He lives in Huntington Beach, California.
Matthew L. M. Fletcher is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in Peshawbestown, Michigan, and a law professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law. He has published fiction in the Dunes Review, Punk Planet, Snow Monkey, Outsider Ink, Sabella, the Vermont Law Review, the Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal, and the Journal of Law and Inequality.
George Gmelch is professor of anthropology at Union College in upstate New York and was formerly a first baseman in the Detroit Tigers organization.
Alan Gordon is a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Social Work. He has also spent several years performing comedy songs at colleges and clubs across the country.
Dan Gordon is a freelance journalist and a lifelong Red Sox fan. Gordon spent a year studying baseball culture in Japan, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Nicaragua. He is currently writing a travel memoir about his experiences.
Harold V. Higham is an attorney at law and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (sabr). Together with Professor Larry R. Gerlach of the University of Utah, he has published articles in SABR’s The National Pastime and The Baseball Research Journal concerning his great-grandfather Dick Higham, a nineteenth-century professional baseball player and National League umpire.
Harry Jebsen Jr. is a history professor at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
Yu Junwei (Yu Chun-wei) obtained his PhD from Warwick University in England, specializing in baseball history on Taiwan and China. He is currently working on a book project that is provisionally titled “A History of Baseball in Taiwan.”
Richard Ian Kimball is an assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University and is the author of Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940 (University of Illinois Press, 2003).
Ed Krzemienski is a professor at Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis. His work has appeared in a variety of professional journals and will be in the forthcoming ESPN Encyclopedia of College Football. He once set a record in his Little League for hitting five consecutive batters, after which he applied his athletic prowess to basketball.
Michael Lorsbach received his B.A. in political science from Rice University in 2002. A former outfielder for the Owls baseball team, he was drafted by the Houston Astros organization and played professionally for two...
