Douglas Branson is the author of Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and Integration of the American League (Nebraska 2016). He is the W. Edward Sell Chair in Business Law at the University of Pittsburgh. I am a Cleveland Indians … Continue reading From the Desk of Douglas Branson: What a World Series!
Rosemary Vestal is the publicity manager manager for UNP and will not apologize for being a New York Yankees fan. Twice a year I visit media contacts in Washington, DC, and New York, NY, about UNP’s forthcoming season of … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Baseball in a Football State
Erica Corwin is the University of Nebraska Press’s Electronic Marketing Coordinator. I don’t know why it happened (it might have something to do with my age or maybe it coincided with my first NPR contribution) but at some point I … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: A Diamond Documentary
An excerpt from Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties (February 2016) by George Gmelch. Chapter 3: Wearing Al Kaline’s Pants Although the distance from Duluth to Jamestown is just over seven hundred miles, it took us seven hours … Continue reading EXCERPT: Playing with Tigers
We love to hear from our readers. Check out what people are saying on Amazon about some of our most recent titles: Canoeing the Great Plains by Patrick Dobson “I read Patrick Dobson’s first book, Seldom Seen a few years … Continue reading A Word From Our Readers
Daniel R. Levitt recently won the Bob Davids Award from the Society for American Baseball Research, the Society’s highest honor. In recognition of that award, Dan discusses some of his writing career below. Recently winning the Bob Davids Award from … Continue reading From the desk of Daniel R. Levitt
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