Contributors
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Jack Bales is the Reference and Humanities librarian at the University of Mary Washington. He gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Center for Research Libraries; Carla Bailey, Interlibrary Loan supervisor, the University of Mary Washington; Martin Gallas, Library director, Illinois College; and Joanne Hulbert, co-chair of the SABR Boston Chapter and editorial board member of Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game.
Brett A. Berliner is an associate professor of history at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. He is a cultural historian who has published on race in France during the interwar years, and is now working on Franco-American amity after World War I.
Darryl Brock was NINE's 1999 keynote speaker. He is the author of the historical novels If I Never Get Back, Havana Heat, and Two in the Field, as well as articles dealing with baseball, Mark Twain, and other Americana. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, daughter, and a slick-fielding terrier.
George Gmelch is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and at Union College in upstate New York. He was formerly a first baseman in the Detroit Tigers organization.
Andrew Gordon Harrington is a doctoral candidate in the Cultural Studies department at Claremont Graduate University, and has an MA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California. His research focuses on media representations of baseball at times of social unrest.
Mary Herbert is originally from St. Louis, Missouri, where as a child she heard Harry Carey announce Cardinals games. She now lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches literature courses at Long Island University and roots for the Mets. Her poems have appeared in NINE and Elysian Fields Quarterly, among other journals, and in Line Drives, an anthology of baseball poetry published by Southern [End Page 182] Illinois University Press. Her work has garnered several awards, and six collections of her poems have been published by Ginninderra Press in Australia.
Robert Klein, a former editorial board member of NINE, is a retired psychologist and former sports writer and editor.
Bill Meissner's first novel, about a ballplayer who discovers an ancient Native American burial ground on a baseball field, is Spirits in the Grass (winner of the Midwest Book Award, 2008). He is the author of seven books, including American Compass, The Road to Cosmos, and the baseball short story collection Hitting Into the Wind. He teaches creative writing at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, and plays baseball occasionally with a pick-up group called The Catch and Release Baseball Club.
James E. Overmyer, of Lenox, Massachusetts, has written extensively on black baseball and nineteenth-century baseball. He was a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame special committee that in 2006 elected seventeen black baseball figures to the Hall. He is a member of the Society of American Baseball Research's Negro Leagues and Nineteenth Century Baseball committees.
Benjamin P. Phillips is a doctoral student in American Studies at Michigan State University. Specializing in US sports culture and popular culture, his research interests include issues of race, gender, religion, and class within US sports (particularly college football and Major League Baseball). Throughout the year, you can find him intensely following the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Debra Shattuck is a retired Air Force Colonel and expert on nineteenth-century women baseball players. She has published a number of articles on the subject and is currently working on the book, Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers for the University of Illinois Press.
James R. Walker is a professor in the Department of Communication at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. He has co-authored four books on the US television industry (Centerfield Shot: A History of Baseball on Television (2008), The Broadcast Television Industry [1998], Television and the Remote Control: Grazing on a Vast Wasteland [1996], The Remote Control in the New Age of Television [1993]), and has published more than thirty articles on various topics in mass communication. His scholarly interests include baseball and media, electronic media programming, and new video technologies.
Tim Wiles is the director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. [End Page 183]
