Contributors
- Contributors
Rick Burton is the David B. Falk Professor of sport management at Syracuse University and was the US Olympic Committee’s chief marketing officer during the 2008 Beijing Summer Games. Prior to that he served as the commissioner of the Australian National Basketball League and was based in Sydney.
Kyle T. Doherty received his ma in Latin American studies from the University of Florida and his ba in Spanish and history from Millsaps College in Jackson ms. His current research interests are Afro-Cuban intellectual history and Cuban baseball. He resides in Gainesville, Florida, and roots for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Jan Finkel, a retired English professor and an active member of sabr, was the 2012 winner of sabr’s Bob Davids Award. He and his wife live on Deep Creek Lake in Maryland.
Originally trained as an archaeologist of colonial America, Robert K. Fitts graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received a PhD from Brown University. In 2000, he left archaeology to focus on his passion—Japanese baseball. Since then, he has published numerous articles and three books on the topic. His first book, Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game, won the 2005 Society of American Baseball Research & the Sporting News Award for Best Baseball Research. The second, Wally Yonamine: The Man who Changed Japanese Baseball, is a biography of the first American to play professional ball in Japan after World War II. His third book, Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan, was published in 2012. [End Page 190]
Steven P. Gietschier is a member of the nine editorial board and a faculty member at Lindenwood University, where he teaches courses in American history. Born in Brooklyn, his interest in the Dodgers stretches back to 1955 when he attended his first major-league game at Ebbets Field. His interest in Ernest Hemingway goes back to the day he discovered that they share a common birthday, July 21.
George Gmelch is professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and Union College. He is the author of eleven books, including several on baseball: Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball; In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People; and Baseball without Borders (ed.). He is currently working on a memoir that focuses on life and culture in the minor leagues in the 1960s.
John N. Ingham is professor emeritus of history from the University of Toronto. He has published a number of books and articles on industrial history and popular culture. He lived in Pittsburgh during the Clemente era. Now living in San Diego, he remains a long-suffering Cub fan.
Andy McCue’s biography of Walter O’Malley is scheduled for publication by the University of Nebraska Press in 2014. He is a former president of the Society for American Baseball Research.
John Thorn is the official historian of Major League Baseball. Among his numerous past credits within the national pastime are Baseball in the Garden of Eden, Total Baseball, The Hidden Game of Baseball, and the Armchair Books of Baseball. A past contributor to nine, he is also the Founding Editor of Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game. He is working on a book tentatively titled Cy Young’s America: A Sporting Life.
Steve Treder has been a writer for The Hardball Times since its inception in 2004. He has contributed numerous articles to nine, and been a regular presenter at the nine Spring Training Conference, as well as the annual Society for American Baseball Research convention. [End Page 191]
