| ROGER ADEN |
| Roger C. Aden is a native of Scottsbluff, NE, and an alumnus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has written two books, including the recent Huskerville: A Story of Nebraska Football, Fans, and the Power of Place (McFarland Publishing, 2008) and numerous articles for academic journals. Aden is a prfessor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
A Sea of Red 2008
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| BRUCE ALLEN |
| Bruce Allen has published the web site Boston Sports Media Watch since April of 2002. On that site, he provides daily links and commentary on sports reporting both in print as well what is said on radio and television. He has made several appearances on radio and television offering commentary on the local sports scene and the media. He has done a Celtics blog for the Fox Sports New England website and is currently developing a blog network known as Bruce Allen Media. http://www.bruceallenmedia.com |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual
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| HOLLY ANDERSON |
| Holly Anderson is a Tennessee-born writer and digital fil editor based in Los Angeles. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| CHRISTOPHER P. ANDERSON |
| The son of two Michigan alums, Christopher P. (Topher) Anderson is a senior staff writer at the Stanford Daily and a graduate student in the Stanford School of Engineering. He also spent three years (2005-2007) covering football for Stanford's student station KZSU 90.1 FM, the latter two as the "voice of Stanford football." Calling the Stanford-USC game is the highlight of his broadcast career. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| MARK ARMOUR |
| Mark Armour is a writer living in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. He co-wrote the award-wining book Paths to Glory, and has written for Baseball Prospectus' annual book, several baseball web sites and many SABR journals. His current project is as the Editor of Rain Check: Baseball in the Pacific Northwest, a SABR publication due from University of Nebraska Press in June 2006. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| JEFF ASHER |
| Jeff Asher graduated from Texas in 2006 and now lives in Washington, DC. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| ADRIAN ATKINSON |
| is the editor of Tar Heel Tip-Off. A 1999 University of Richmond graduate, he is an environmental economist who lives in Raleigh with his wife Katya. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| JAY BARRY |
| Jay Barry is a 1992 graduate of Notre Dame and writes about the Irish for The Blue-Gray Sky (http://bluegraysky.blogspot.com), a Notre Dame scrapbook. He gets to more home games now that he lives in Chicago. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2008, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| MICHAEL BEAN |
| Michael Bean is an Austin native and long time Longhorns fan heading to the Emerald City for graduate school. He writes daily about his favorite pro football team at BehindTheSteelCurtain.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| PETER BEAN |
| Along with editing and contributing to the first two editions of The Eyes of Texas, Peter Bean is the founder and editor of Burnt Orange Nation, a website dedicated to Texas Longhorns news and analysis. His writing on college football has appeared in numerous online and print publications. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| ALEX BELTH |
| Alex Belth lives int he Bronx, with hif fiancee. He is the founder of Bronx Banter, the longest-running Yankee blog on teh Internet and author of Stepping Up: The Story of Curt Flood and his Fight for Baseball Players' Rights. He writes a baseball column for SI.com and contributes to Variety magazine, Baseball Prospectus, and The Hardball Times. He is currently editing a book of Pat Jordan's best magazine writing. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2007
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| JIM BENNETT |
| Jim Bennett is a retired intelligence analyst now living in Vermont. His baseball analyses, primarily of historical players, have appeared on the Baseball Primer and Sons of Sam Horn websites. He also writes social commentary and is a contract tech writer. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual
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| TED BERG |
| In addition to writing his Mets column, "Flushing Fussing," Ted Berg works as the senior editorial producer for SNY.tv, managing the site's content and layout. He was born in Rockville Centre, NY, and graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008
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| BRIAN BORAWSKI |
| Brian Borawski is a Detroit-area CPA and a lifelong Tigers fan who blogs abou this hometown heroes at Tigerblog.net. He is a lso a contributor to the Hardball Times Baseball Annual and writes a business of baseball column for HardballTimes.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2008, Tigers Corner 2007
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| PAT BORCHERS |
| Patrick J. Borchers is a 1983 honors graduate of the University of Notre Dame, earning his degree in physics. He is a lawyer and current Dean of the Creighton Law School in Omaha, Nebraksa. He is a lifelong Notre Dame fan and is known to Internet followers of the Irish as "omahadomer." |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2008, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| ROB BRADFORD |
| Rob Bradford is currently the online editor for WEEI.com and has worked as a reporter for the Boston Herald, Salem News, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, and Lowell Sun. He is the co-author of Deep Drive with Mike Lowell, the author of Chasing Steinbrenner, and a regular contributor to WEEI-AM, Fox Sports New England, and NESN. HE lives in Beverly, MA, with his wife, Jen, and three children Taylor, Riley, and Colby.
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| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007
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| DANA BRAND |
| Dana Brand is the author of Mets Fan (McFarland, 2007, metsfanbook.com), a book about being a Mets fan for 45 years. He is a prominent Mets blogger and he is a professor of English and American Literature at Hofstra University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale, where he would often talk baseball with A. Bartlett Giamatti, the Yale English professor who became the Commisioner of Baseball. In addition to his baseball writing, Professor Brand has written extensively about literature, philosophy, and film. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008
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| ALBERT BREER |
| Albert Breer is in his third year as an NFL Reporter and New England Patriots beat wrtier for the Boston Herald and MetroWest Daily News, following five seasons covering college football. A former staffer at the Asbury Park (NJ) Press, Breer is a 2002 graduate of The Ohio State University, where he won several national awards for collegiate sports writing. His work on college football has also appeared in Touchdown Illustrated, the Official Rose Bowl Program, and on ESPN.com and CNNSI.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2007
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| CHIP BROWN |
| Chip Brown is a sportswriter for the Dallas Morning News and host of a daily sports radio program on AM 1530 in Austin. He has covered Texas athletics 14 of the last 16 years. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| MARK BROWN |
| Mark Brown is a freelance writer and reporter living on Cape Cod and a member of Sons of Sam Horn. He spends summers covering the nation's best collegiate prospects in the Cape Cod Baseball League. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| CHUCK BURGESS |
| Chuck Burgess has been a public school teacher and administrator, a radio broadcaseter, and a writer. He is the author of Golf Links and co-author of Dirty Water, both from Rounder Books. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007
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| PAUL CAMPOS |
| Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado and a nationally-syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Agency. His books include The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health and Jurismania: The Madness of American Law. He holds three degrees from the University of Michigan, and in addition spent much of his childhood in Ann Arbor. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| DARREN K. CARLSON |
| Darren K. Carlson shares his opinions about Nebraska football for Big Red Network (www.bigrednetwork.com), a website dedicated to covering Husker football every day. He's a confirmed football junkie who refuses to seek help for his problem. His wife and young daughter offer forgiveness and support. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
A Sea of Red 2008
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| MIKE CARMINATI |
| Mike Carminati is the proprietor of the Mike's Baseball Rants website (mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com). He has contributed regularly at BaseballProspectus.com, including a five-part series on umpires. Mike has been cited in Time, Newsweek, Slate, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, American Way, San Francisco Weekly, Wikipedia, and the Wall Street Journal. He is a long-suffering Phillies fan, Yankee admirer, and Red Sox loather. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2008, Bombers Broadside 2007
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| COREY CARPENTER |
| Corey Carpenter is co-author of Eleven Warriors (www.elevenwarriors.com) and obsesses over the Buckeyes. He lives in Columbus with his lonely wife Amber, where he enjoys golfing, jogging, and blogging about Ohio State. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| MARK T. CARSON |
| Mark T. Carson, 1975 graduate of Rocky Mount Senior High School, is a certified CT Technologies who has been performing CAT scans full-time since 1982. Born and raised in Rocky Mount, Mark no lives on the Pamlico River in Bath, NC. A lifelong Tar Heel fan, he began posting at Inside Carolina in 2005 under hte screen name "BringbackPhil." The Heels didn't bring back Phil, but they did win the NCAA championship that year. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| IAN CASSELBERRY |
| Ian Casselberry is the author blessyouboys.com, which has been featured at ESPN.com and USA Today Sports Weekly. As a freelance writer based in Ann Arbor, MI, he has contributed to several local publications and is currently working on BaseballBlend.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2008
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| GEORGE CASTLE |
| George Castle has covered the Cubs for the Times of Northwest Indiana since 1994. He has authored nine baseball books, including Entangled in Ivy: INside the Cubs' Quest for October and The Million-to-one Team: Why the Chicago Cubs Haven't Won a Pennant Since 1945. The native Chicagoan also hosts and produces Diamond Gems, a weekly one-hour baseball program airing on more than 40 affiliates in 14 states in his 15th season on air in 2008. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008, Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| BRANDON CAVANAUGH |
| Brandon Cavanaugh (known as "Blankman" on several Husker Internet message boards) is a freelance writer who has contributed to Scout.com as a Nebraska football recruiting analyst and the Omaha World Herald sports department. He continues his work with Nebraska athletics blogs at Corn Nation (www.cornnation.com). |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
A Sea of Red 2008
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| TYLER CHAMBLIN |
| Tyler Chamblin is an avid fan and follower of Ohio State football and college recruiting. He is a two-time graduate (BS and MBA) of Ohio University and currently employed by Limited Brands in Columbus. In addition to writing for Buckeye Battle Cry 2008 Tyler also provided creative and editorial support. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| CRAIG CHVAL |
| Craig Chval is a 1981 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. His sports articles have appeared in the South Bend Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, and Notre Dame and Clemson football programs He and his family live in Columbia, MO, where he practices computer-related law with The Chval Law Group, P.C. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2008
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| KEVIN COLLAZO |
| Kevin Collazo has been writing about the Mets for three years on mvn.com's blog "Take the 7 Train." He officially became a fan of the team when his father pulled him out of his first first grade class in Gerald F. Neary Elementary back in 1982 to attend his first Mets game. His father told him, "Never boo your team's players and never cheat." To this day, he has yet to boo a Mets player. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008
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| BRIAN COOK |
| Brian Cook is the author of MGoBlog (mgoblog.com), the Internet's most trafficked Michigan blog, and a lead blogger for AOL's College Football Fanhouse. He has two computer engineering degrees from Michigan and parents who wonder what, exactly, all that money was for. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| TED COX |
| Ted Cox has written "The Sports Section" for the Chicago Reader for 25 years. He is also the TV ctiric for the Daily Herald. He lieves in Chicago with his wife and two daughters. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008, Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| DAN D'ADDONA |
| Dan D'Addona is a staff writer for The Holland Sentinel and an Ann Arbor native. He was the recipient of a 2007 Michigan Press Association award in the sports features category. His work has also appeared in The Ann Arbor News and The Grand Rapids Press and at baseballhalloffame.org. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008, Tigers Corner 2008, Tigers Corner 2007
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| CHUCK DAVENPORT |
| Chuck Davenport is a UNC graduate who has been an avid Carolina basketball fan for 62 seasons. He is retired from 35 years in Information Technology, and lives with his wife Brenda near Fayetteville, GA. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| CORY DAVIES |
| Cory "54b" Davies is a former walk-on for the University of Texas and amateur columnist. The nickname "54b" stems from his playing days when he shared the number 54 with another player who was on scholarship. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| CHRIS DIAL |
| Chris Dial is a pharmaceutical research manager in Cary, NC. He has studied defensive analysis for 10 years. He cut his analytical teeth in the discussion group rec.sport.baseball and has been writing articles at Baseball Think Factory since its inception. He loves his daughter Lindsay and the Mets, usually in that order. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008
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| GREG DOOLEY |
| Greg Dooley is a contributor to MVictors.com, a Michigan football blog. The 1993 Michigan graduate currently resides just outside Ann Arbor with his wife and two kids. In his spare time, Greg is working to solidify his theory that there's a 20% chance we all live in the Matrix. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| TOBY DORSEY |
| Toby Dorsey is a New Englander living in exile in Maryland. A one-time journalist and appellate lawyer, he works for Congress on a non-partisan basis writing federal law and is the author of a leading textbook on legislative drafting. He helps run the Red Sox blog, "Sox Therapy," at baseballthinkfactory.org. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007
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| BILL DOW |
| Bill Dow is a freelance writer based in Birmingham, MI. He is a regular contributor to the Detroit Free Press sports page and his work has appeared in Baseball Digest magazine. His article on the 1952 no-hitters thrown by Tiger hurler Virgil Trucks was re-published in the 2006 book, The Best of Baseball Digest, published by Ivan R. Dee, Chicago. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2008
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| SCOTT EDEN |
| Scott Eden, a 1997 graduate of Notre Dame, is the author of Touchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre Dame (Simon & Schuster, 2005). He received his MFA degree in creative writing from Washington University in St. Louis, and is now a freelance reporter living in Chicago. His work has appeared in the Chicago Reader, Men's Journal, Maisonneuve Magazine, Notre Dame Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| GORDON EDES |
| Gordon Edes has been in the newspaper business for 35 years, the last 28 reporting on sports. He spent nearly 12 seasons covering the Red Sox for the Boston Globe before leaving to become the national baseball writer at Yahoo! Sports in July of 2008. Previously he hwas worked for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The National Sports Daily, and Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. In Los Angeles, he covered all four major pro sports teams, including the back-to-back championships by the Magic Johnson "Showtime" Lakers, but for the last 17 years his primary focus has been baseball. He is a multiple winner of APSE writing awards in news, investigative, game story, and feature categories, and is a regular contributor on NESN, ESPN Radio, and XM radio. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| MICHAEL ELKON |
| Michael's writing experience includes five seasons of SEC articles for PigskinPost.com and Collegefootballnews.com, and various attempts to shoehorn Michigan football and FC Barcelona into the Atlnata sports scene for his blog Braves & Birds (bravesandbirds.blogspot.com). When he's not advancing his theory that Will Carr was the best defensive tackle in Michigan history, Michael works as a litigator, specializing in non-compete, trade secret, and duty of loyalty cases. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Andrea and his son Samuel, whom Michael has penciled in as Michigan's starting left guard in 2026. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| MIKE EMEIGH |
| Mike Emeigh is the editor of the Notes in a Minor Key blog on Baseball Think Factory. He attends about 70 minor league games a year, primarily in his home area of Raleigh-Durham. He scores minor league games for Baseball Info Solutions, and in his spare time works as a quality assurance manager for a local telecommunications company. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008
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| E.J. FAGAN |
| E.J. Fagan covers the Yankee minor league system daily at Pending Pinstripes (www.mvn.com/milb-yankees). He has covered games for Yankee minor league affiliates in Staten Island (New York-Penn League) and Trenton (Eastern League). |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2008
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| EVERETT FELL |
| Everett Fell (Rego Park, NY) wrote for New York Newsday for two years. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| BILL FERRIS |
| Bill Ferris is an industrial engineer in Detroit. He's been analyzing and writing about the Tigers since 2001 at his website www.detroittigersweblog.com. He also contributed to the 2008 Hardball Times Annual. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2008
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| CHAD FINN |
| Chad Finn is the creator of Touching All the Bases (http://touchingallthebases.blogspot.com), a blog that takes a lighthearted but passionate approach to Boston sports. As an assistant sports editor at the Concord Monitor Finn was twice named New Hampshire Sports Columnist of the Year and won several national and regional sportswriting awards. His is now a copy editor at The Boston Globe. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Here Come the Irish 2006, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| SCOTT FISCHTAL |
| Scott Fischtal is a long-time SABR Statiscal Committee member, Mets fan with vivd memories of Tom Seaver's dirty knee, and Retrosheet volunteer with scoresheets of the game with Marv Throneberry's "triple." He lives in Gaithersburg, MD, with his wife and two children. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008
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| KEN FOWLER |
| Ken Fowler is a 2008 graduate of Notre Dame and served as the managing editor of The Observer, the daily campus newspaper. He was a beat writer covering Notre Dame football from 2006-2008. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2008
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| MARK FRICKE |
| Mark Fricke is an award-winning journalist and college football historian. He is the author of two books on the subject, Nebraska Cornhusker Football and Western Michigan Football. He has produced historical materials for universities across the country including Notre Dame, Oklahoma, and the College Football Hall of Fame. He currently resides in Kalamazoo, MI. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
A Sea of Red 2008
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| CHARLES GABBERT |
| Charles Gabbert is a fourth-year medical student at Oregon Health and Science University and a proud member of the Notre Dame Class of 2001. He has been previously published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and Medical Teacher. Planning to pursue a career in either emergency medicine or health care policy, Charles plans to relocate to the Midwest after graduating with an MD in 2007. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| JOEL GAMBLE |
| Joel Gamble is the founder of RollBamaRoll.com, an Alabama football blog. Besides college football, he obsesses over music and reviewes concerts for extrawack.com and has reviewed CDs for the Birmingham Weekly. He is currently pursuing a master's degree at the University of Alabama. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Yea Alabama 2008
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| VINCE GENNARO |
| Vince Gennaro is the author of Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball and a consultant to MLB teams. Over his 30-year business career, he served as a CEO of a public company, was president of a billion dollar division of PepsiCo and an owner of a women's pro basketball team. His innovative analytical work ont he business of baseball has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney, and The New York Times, and he has written for The Hardball Times, Yahoo! Sports, and various Maple Street Press annuals. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Diamond Dollars, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008, Meet the Mets 2008, Wrigley Season Ticket 2008, Bombers Broadside 2008, Bombers Broadside 2007
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| TONY GERDEMAN |
| Tony Gerdeman has been a featured writer for the-Ozone.net since 2005. A 1998 graduate of The Ohio State University, Gerdeman saw the Buckeyes win two out of five Michigan games during his tenure--a feat which used to be something to crow about. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| DOUG GILLETT |
| Doug Gillett attended the University of Georgia and served as the editor-in-chief of UGA's independent student newspaper, but his first indoctrination into SEC football came at a much earlier age courtesy of his aunt, who attended graduate school at Alabama and still works on UA's campus. Currently living in BIrmingham, AL, Doug covered teh SEC for Fleabomb, a local arts and culture web site, and writes about college football extensively on his own blog, heyjennyslater.blogspot.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Yea Alabama 2008
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| GARY GILLETTE |
| Gary Gillette is a lifelong Tigers fan and the president of 24-7 Baseball, LLC. He is also a columnist for ESPN Insider and the coeditor of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia and ESPN Football Encyclopedia. He lives in Detroit. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2007, Tigers Corner 2007, Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| VICKI GILLETTE |
| Vicki Gillette is a native Detroiter and a non-profit management consultant. She lives with the editor of Tigers Corner and their two children, Karolina and Kamil, in Detroit's historic Inidan Village--not quite in the shadow of Comerica Park, but pretty close. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2008, Tigers Corner 2007
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| ALEX GLEITMAN |
| Alex Gleitman is a sports management major at Ohio State University. He serves as the recruiting expert and administrator for Dotting the "I" (www.dottingthei.com), a popular blog he launched with three other undergraduate students in March of 2008. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| DAVID GLENN |
| David Glenn is the editor of ACCSports.com and the ACC Sports Journal, a bi-weekly magazine that has covered the Atlantic Coast Conference for more than 30 years. He also hosts a weekday drive-time show on Sports Radio 850 The Buzz in Raleigh, NC, and appears on more than 500 radio shows annually throughout the ACC region. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| ROB GLOWACKI |
| You can read the daily ravings of Rob Glowacki and his fellow writers at the award-winning website "The Cub Reporter" (mvn.com/mlb-cubs). |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008, Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| BOB GOLON |
| Bob Golon is labor archivist at Rutgers University Libraries in New Brunswick, NJ. He is also a baseball researcher and historian, and his book about New Jersey professional baseball was published by the Rutgers University Press in 2008. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2007
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| DAN GRAZIANO |
| Dan Graziano is the national baseball writer for the Star-Ledger of Newark, NJ. He was the paper's Yankees beat writer from 2000-04 and has served as its national baseball writer since 2005. Prior to 2000, he spent three years as the Florida Marlins beat writer for the Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, FL. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2008
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| LARRY GROSS |
| Larry Gross has been a sportswriter for the last 34 years, working at Today's Sunbeam in Salem, NJ, the Gloucester County Times in Woodbury, NJ, and the Chicago Defender. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| NICOLE HAASE |
| Nicole Haase is a freelance writer from Milwaukee, WI. She gained an appreciation for SEC football while earning degreen in journalism and spanish from Loyola University in New Orleans. Nicole has covered everything from high school sports to natural gas prices in publications such as New Orleans City Business Magazine and the St. Charles Herald-Guide, and is a frequent contributor to ESPN.com's UniWatch column. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Yea Alabama 2008
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| SPENCER HALL |
| Spencer Hall is the editor of EDSBS.com (Every Day Should Be Saturday) and a contributor to the Sporting News. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Yea Alabama 2008, The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| MARK C. HEALEY |
| Mark Healey is the executive editor for Gotham Baseball magazine. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2008, Bombers Broadside 2007
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| THOM HENNINGER |
| Thom Henninger is a senior writer for STATS LLC, the world's leading sports information provider. Thom has co-edited serveral publications and contributes to blogs for STATS, which offers premium coverage of numerous sports worldwide, including scores, statistics, historical information, and in-depth editorial content. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| KEITH HEUGATTER |
| Keith Heugatter is an engineer who lives in Arlington with his lovely wife (who almost tolerates his blogging on "The Barking Carnival") and a roomful of Longhorn books and memorabilia. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| MATT HINTON |
| Mississippi native Matt Hinton is a writer and reporter living in Austin, TX. He obsesses over every team daily on his blog, Sunday Morning Quarterback. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2008, Yea Alabama 2008, The Eyes Of Texas 2008, Hail to the Victors 2008, Buckeye Battle Cry 2008, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| SHAWN HOFFMAN |
| Shawn Hoffman grew up in New York City and is now a senior at the University of Michigan, where he has studied the history and economics of baseball. Born and raised as a Pirates fan, Hoffman's favorite ballplayer was Barry Bonds until age seven. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2007
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| PETE HOLIDAY |
| Pete Holiday is a recent law school graduate and an alumnus of the University of Alabama. When he's not trying to earn a living, you can find him covering SEC football at the AOL Sports blog FanHouse. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Yea Alabama 2008
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| JOEL HOLLINGSWORTH |
| Joel Hollingsworth is a general counsel of a health care organization by day and editor of the SB Nation Tennessee Volunteer blog RockyTopTalk.com by mornings, nights, and weekends. His work has been featured on and in numerous websites and print publications on topics rangings from vomit to tax and copyright law. He lives in Jonesborough, TN, adjacent to Jackson the Mule, who says hi. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Yea Alabama 2008
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| BRUCE HOOLEY |
| Bruce Hooley hosts The Big Show with former Buckeyes Chris Spielman and Kirk Herbstreit on WBNS-AM 1460 in Columbus. Bruce covered Bit Ten football for ESPN.com from 2005-2008 and covered OSU sports for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland from 1988-2005. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| AJ THE HUSKER HATER |
| A Missouri native, AJ th eHusker Hater is a 22-year resident of Omaha, NE. An analyst in the telecommunications industry, he also authors the blog "Behind Enemy Lines," chronicling the passion and absurdity associated to one of college football's most revered fan bases (ajthoughts.blogspot.com). |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
A Sea of Red 2008
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| DON HYSLOP |
| Don Hyslop is a retired middle school history teacher who has been a Red Sox fan since his first trip to Fenway Park in 1962. He presently does some interviewing and writing for www.redsoxnation.net and www.soxprospects.com from his home in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual
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| DEREK JACQUES |
| Derek Jacques runs an editorial services company with his wife, Paula, and writes the Prospectus Toolbox column for the Baseball Prospectus website. He is a co-author of the last two editions of the best-selling Baseball Prospectus annual, and his work has also appeared on CNNSI.com and in the Colorado Rockies magazine. He also has a blog dedicated tot he Yankees: weblogthatderekbuilt.blogspot.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2008, Bombers Broadside 2007
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| JAY JAFFE |
| Jay Jaffe is the founder of the Futility Infielder website (www.futilityinfielder.com), one of the oldest baseball blogs, and an author of Baseball Prospectus. In recent years he has contributed work to BP's Mind Game, It Ain't Over Til It's Over, and annual player guides, Fantasy Baseball Index, and both editions of Bombers Broadside. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2008, Bombers Broadside 2007
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| MIKE JAIXEN |
| Mike Jaixen is a lifelong Husker fan living in Omaha, NE, who spends his days working as a web programmer and his nights and weekends blogging about the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Husker Mike's Blasphemy (huskermike.blogspot.com) and at Corn Nation (www.cornnation.com). |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
A Sea of Red 2008
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| JOHNNY JOHNSTON |
| Johnny Johnston, better known as "Outside the Sidelines" at RollBamaRoll.com, is a college football fanatic with a passion for Xs and Os. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Yea Alabama 2008
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| COLIN JOHNSTON |
| Chris Webber made Colin Johnston cry when he was seven. In fifth grade he got knocked out of the spelling bee on the word "posthumous." Now age 22, he sleeps fitfully, plagued by the deep, gnawing suspicision that somewhere someone is wrong on the Internet. He also writes for Southsidesox.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| JON JOHNSTON |
| Jon Johnston is the editor of A Sea of Red. He is a computer network and communication consultant living in Chaska, MN, and has published many magazine articles and a book in that industry. Johnston is a Nebraska alum and hte main site editor of the Husker blog Corn Nation (www.cornnation.com). |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
A Sea of Red 2008
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| TODD JONES |
| Todd Jones graduated from UAB with degrees in philosophy and history and has subsequently put them to good use as a co-author of the popular and influential Alabama blog RollBamaRoll.com, where he waxes nostalgic for the deays of Frank Thomas and delights his readers with lengthy discussions of the similarities between the Saban process and the Hegelian dialectic. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Yea Alabama 2008
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| ADAM JONES |
| Adam Jones writes the weekly college football web site www.jonestopten.com, the trugh about college football since 1995. His first book, Rose Bowl Dreams: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Football, will be released in August 2008. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| SCOTT JONES |
| Scott Jones is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill (2004) and Columbia Law School (2007). He is currently practicing with the firm Latham & Watkins, LLP in Washington, DC. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| JEFF KATZ |
| Jeff Katz is a baseball writer and member of the Society for American Baseball Research. He has written baseball articles for such websites as The Baseball Page and contributed a short story to the baseball compilation Play It Again: Baseball Experts on What Might Have Been, edited by Jim Bresnahan. He lives in Cooperstown, New York. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Kansas City A's and the Wrong Half of the Yankees
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| GUNDER KEHOE |
| Gunder Kehoe graduated from Notre Dame in 2001. He lives in Los Angeles and works for a woman who manages actors. He also helps his boss's ailing dog. Not only is he a rabid Notre Dame fan, he writes on the side. He also gets his hair cut at the same salon where Jimmy Clausen's mom gets her hair done. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2008, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| SHAUN KELLY |
| Shaun Kelly (Wellesley, Massachusetts) is an English and American history teacher at The Greenwich Country Day School. In October of 2004 he started the famous "Win it For..." thread on Sons of Sam Horn that was later published in book form by Sports Publishing LLC. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Here Come the Irish 2006, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| T. KYLE KING |
| T. Kyle King is a partner with the law firm of Hodges, McEachern & King in Jonesboro, GA. He operates the college football weblog DawgSports.com and his previously published work has ranged from newspaper columns in The Red & Black to a law review article in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Yea Alabama 2008, The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| FRANK KRAS |
| Frank Kras is a freelance writer living in St. Louis and a contributor to Fantasy Baseball Index magazine. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2007
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| TARA KRIEGER |
| Tara Krieger is a New York-based writer and editor who has spent time on staff with Newsday and The Poughkeepsie Journal. A lifelong baseball fanatic, she also has been published in The Auburn Citizen and Seattle Times. She attended Barnard College and is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008, Bombers Broadside 2008, Bombers Broadside 2007
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| JEFF KUHN |
| Jeff Kuhn works in the exciting world of ticket distribution, which annoyingly distracts from being adble to dedicated all of his life to sports nerdery. The Red Sox are his first love, with a good amount of obsession being paid to the New England Patriots, BOston Celtics, Rhode Island Rams, and Tottenham Hotspur. He writes for The House That Dewey Built occasionally. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007
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| MICHAEL KURINSKY |
| Michael Kurinsky is an English teacher who lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife Erin. A 1997 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Michael is a contributing writer for The Blue Gray Sky, a blog covering the Fighting Irish football team. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
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| CHRIS LAUDERBACK |
| Chris Lauderback is a co-author of the Ohio State blog Eleven Warriors (www.elevenwarriors.com). He does not live in his parents' basement and is gainfully employed. In his free time, he enjoys all things Buckeye, blogging, golfing, and juggling fire. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| DAVID LAURILA |
| DAVID LAURILA is a lifelong Red Sox fan who grew up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and now writes about baseball from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He authors the weekly Prospectus Q&A column at Baseball Prospectus, and is a regular contributor to Baseball America, Boston Sports Review, and Red Sox Magazine. His first book, Interviews from Red Sox Nation, was published by Maple Street Press in 2006. A revised and updated edition of Interviews from Red Sox nation was published in 2008.
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| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Interviews from Red Sox Nation, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Interviews from Red Sox Nation, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008, Tigers Corner 2008, Bombers Broadside 2007, Tigers Corner 2007, Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| JAMES LAVIN |
| James Lavin (Stamford, CT) is the author of Management Secrets of the New England Patriots, Vols. 1 & 2. He earned his economics Ph.D. at Stanford, where he analyzed high performance work organizations (like the Patriots). He also holds degrees in political science (Harvard), economics (London School of Economics), and East Asian studies (Stanford). Lavin grew up in Wayland, MA cheering for many disappointing Patriots teams. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006
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| DOUG LESMERISES |
| Doug Lesmerises has covered Ohio State sports for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer since 2005. He lives in Westerville, OH, with his wife, Katie, and two daughters. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| STEVEN LEVENTHAL |
| Steven Leventhal is sports director of SRN Broadcasting and co-founder of YourSportsFan.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008
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| RUSSELL LEVINE |
| A 1994 graduate of Michigan, Russell Levine is an associate editor of Football Outsiders (www.footballoutsiders.com), where he writes a weekly column on college football, Confessions of a Football Junkie, and hosts the Seventh Day Adventure podcast. He also covers college football for the New York Sun newspaper and contributes to the Pro Football Prospectus annual book. He has spent more than 10 years working in sports media and has written for a number of sports sites. He lives in West Orange, NJ, with his very understanding wife and two children. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| JASON LLOYD |
| Jason Lloyd is entering his ninth season covering Ohio State football for The (Lorain) Morning Journal and the Lake County News-Herald. He has also been a contribuor recently to ESPN.com and Lindy's. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| RICH MACLONE |
| Rich Maclone is the senior sports writer for Enterprise Publishing on Cape Cod. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| BRANDON MAGEE |
| Brandon has been writing on the Red Sox minor league system at the Sons of Sam Horn since 2002. Brandon is also a contributing writer to Sox on Deck. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| MATT MARKEY |
| Matt Markey is the Big Ten beat writer for The Toledo Blade newspaper, and covers primarily the Buckeyes. He is a regular contributor to the Athlon College Football Yearbook, and has also written about college football for the Sporting News. he is a member of the All-American selection committee for the Football Writers Association of America, and a voter for a number of the top college football awards, including the Heisman Trophy. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| TOM MASON |
| Tom Mason is an environmental lawyer and a freelance writer with more than a hundred articles to his credit. He has written about sports and other topics for a number of New England magazines and newspapers, including several articles for area minor league baseball teams. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research, he lives in Lakeville, Massachusetts. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Guide to New England Ballparks
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| MATTHEW MASSEY |
| Matthew Massey was born and raised in Columbus, OH, and is the owner/author of BuckeyeCommentary.com, an Ohio State football blog. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| STEVE MASTROYIN |
| Steve Mastroyin is a lifelong Red Sox fan and posts his thoughts and analyses on the team at Sons of Sam Horn (www.sonsofsamhorn.com). |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| MIKE McCLARY |
| Mike McClary is a freelance writer and native of St. Clair Shores, MI. He writes about the Tigers at DailyFungo.com and hosts the weekly Detroit Tigers Podcast from his home in Scottsdale, AZ. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2008
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| DAN McCOURT |
| Dan McCourt is a lifelong Yankee fan born in the Bronx who attends 60-70 games a year. He writes game reports and Yankee history for his own Web site, www.takehimdowntown.com. His columns have also appeared in The Pinstripe Press and on NYYFans.com. Dan is proud to have interviewed and to have written an article about late Yankee organist, Eddie Layton, a piece that appeared in Motor Boating Magazine. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2008, Bombers Broadside 2007
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| HOWARD MEGDAL |
| Howard Megdal covers baseball for the New York Observer and Gotham Baseball Magazine. His work has also appeared on ESPN.com and Inside Pitch among many other publications and web sites. His book about Jewish baseball players will be published by HarperCollins in the spring of 2009. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008, Bombers Broadside 2008
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| PHIL MEYERS |
| Phil Meyers is a licensed attorney working in sports media for SRN Broadcasting. In addition he doubles as a baseball analyst for Synergy Sports Technology. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008, Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| BRUCE MILES |
| Bruce Miles has been the Cubs beat writer for the Arlington Heights, IL, Daily Herald since 1998. He has covered Major League Baseball since 1989. He co-authored the book, Harry Caray: Voice of the Fans, with Cubs radio play-by-play announcer Pat Hughes. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008
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| PAT MITSCH |
| Pat Mitsch is a systems engineer who covers Notre Dame football in his spare time on The Blue-Gray Sky (bluegraysky.blogspot.com). A 1999 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he and his wife currently live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2008, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| SETH MNOOKIN |
| Seth Mnookin is a former music critic, police reporters, and political correspondent, and is currently contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He's the author of Feeding the Monster, the bestseller that detailed the inside story of the last half decade of Red Sox history, and Hard News, about the scandals that enveloped the New York Times in 2003. His grade school birthday parties were often held at Fenway, and he sat in the inifeld grandstand for Yaz's last game. His home, where he lives with his wife and their cat, is less than a quarter-mile from where Ebbets Field once stood. You can find his blog, and lots more, at www.sethmnookin.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| ALISON MORAN |
| Alison Moran grew up a diehard Cubs fan in the western suburbs of Chicago. She has covered news and sports in Chicago since 1989, and is currently the Women's Sports Columnist and covers the Chicago Blackhawks for SRN Broadcasting and YourSportsFan.com. Alison is convinced that she will live long enough to see the Cubs win the World Series. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008
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| JACK MORTON |
| Jack Morton is a senior communications specialist in Raleigh, NC, and is following in his grandfather Hugh's footsteps as a photographer of Tar Heel sports. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| BILL NOWLIN |
| Bill Nowlin has been writing about Ted Williams since the mid-90s. The most recent of his books is Ted Williams At War (Rounder Books, 2007). Bill is the Vice President of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and has written or edited some 20 books on the Red Sox or Red Sox players. He is also a co-founder of Rounder Records. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007
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| ALEX O'BANNON |
| Alex O'Bannon graduated from Notre Dame in 2001. He currently lives in Hermosa Beach with a wonderful and very understanding wife of one year. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2008
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| KYLE O'NEILL |
| Kyle O'Neill is a freelance writer from Ann Arbor. In 2005 he graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in English after three years as a writer and editor for The Michigan Daily. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2007
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| ABRAM ORLANSKY |
| Abram Orlansky graduated from Texas in 2005 and now lives in his hometown of Jackson, MS. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| TOM ORR |
| Tom Orr is a 2000 graduate of The Ohio State University. He is the Associate Managing Editor of ThePalestra.com college sports and entertainment network. He has also worked at WCMH-TV in Columbus and WXYZ-TV in DEtroit and spent four years as a featured columnist for TheOzone.net. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| CHRIS PADDOCK |
| Chris Paddock is a columnist for Diehard Magazine and a regular contributor to Scout.com. He lives in San Francisco, CA. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| PETE PALMER |
| Pete Palmer (Hollis, NH) is the co-author of The Hidden Game of Baseball and co-editor of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia and ESPN Football Encyclopedia. He introduced on-base average as an official statistic for the American League in 1979 and invented on-base plus slugging (OPS), now universally used as a good measure of batting strength. A member of SABR since 1973, he is also a contributor to The Sporting News Complete Baseball Record Book and Who's Who in Baseball. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Here Come the Irish 2006, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008, Meet the Mets 2008, Tigers Corner 2007, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| LEE PANAS |
| Lee Panas works as a research analyst at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. He has been following the Tigers since 1968 and writes about his favorite team at detroittigertales.blogspot.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2008
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| JACK PARK |
| Jack Park is the author of The Ohio State University Football Vault with foreword by Jim Tressel and afterword by Archie Griffin. Park is a professional speaker who, in 2008, is scheduled to address corporations and associations in 31 different states across the country. Go to www.jackpark.com for information on Park's leadership development programs. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| RICHARD PENNINGTON |
| Richard Pennington is the author of eight books including Longhorn Hoops and "For Texas, I Will": The History of Memorial Stadium. His work has appeared in the Daily Texan, Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, Texas Business and Runner's World. He resides in Austin, Texa |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Texas Longhorns Football History from A to Z
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| JOEL PENNINGTON |
| Joel Pennington is the author of The Ten Year War: Ten Classic Games Between Bo and Woody and has written for GoBlueWolverine Magazine and GoBlueWolverine.com. Joel has been a frequent guest on various radio and television programs including the Bucknuts Radio Hour, the GoBlueWolverine Radio Hour and the Paul W. Smith Show on WJR. A lifelong Michigan fan, he lives in Lima, OH, with his wife and two daughters. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| JOHN PERROTTO |
| John Perrotto has covered the Pirates for the Beaver County Times for 20 years, including the last nine years of Jim Leyland's managerial tenure in Pittsburgh. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2007
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| JOHN PORENTAS |
| John Porentas is the founder and publisher of theOzone.net, an online publication covering Ohio State athletics. John has covered every OSU football game home and away since 1996 and is a regular at any press conference involving OSU football. In addition to publishing daily on theOZone.net, he is also a co-author of Glory Years: A Photo History of the New Era in Ohio State Football, available August 2008 from Triumph Books. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| TODD PORTER |
| Todd Porter, twice named The Associated Press's sports writer of the year, is a columnist covering Ohio State football for The Canton Repository. His work also appeared in the 2002 release Greatest Moments in Ohio State Football History. He lives in Akron with his wife Michielle and two children, Dylan and Sydni. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| JASON PRIESTAS |
| Jason Prestas is an author of Eleven Warriors (www.elevenwarriors.com), an Ohio State athletics blog that strives (sometimes in vain) to inform and amuse. A native of Columbus, he currently resides in Chicago and misses all of hte nice folks clad in scarlet and gray. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Buckeye Battle Cry 2008
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| GREG W. PRINCE |
| Greg W. Prince is co-author of Faith and Fear in Flushing, the blog for Mets fans who like to read. He writes for and is an on-air contributor to SportsNet New York's Mets Weekly. His baseball pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and mlb.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008
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| MICHAEL RICHMOND |
| Michael Richmond is an astronomer at the Rochester Institute of Technology who studies variable stars and supernovae. He remembers vividly hearing the radio call of Game Four of the 2004 World Series while observing a lunar eclipse. On cloudy nights, he turns his attention from the skies to the diamond. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| MIRIAM ROMAIN |
| Miriam Romain, a lifelong diehard Cubs fan and Evanston native no living in CHicago, has been a freelance writer and editor for more than 20 years. During baseball season you will find her either in the left field bleachers or in the first row of the upper deck near the press box. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008
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| CRAIG ROSS |
| Craig Ross is a UM graduate and an attorney practicing law in Ann Arbor. He wrties occasional pieces for the Ann Arbor Observer and has published one book about Michigan sports, The Obscene Diaries of a Michigan Fan. He is currently working on two other books, The Unified Field Theory of Football, and (out fall of 2008) Tackling the Spread, Offensive football from Benny Friedman to Rich Rodriguez. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| JOHN SAWARD |
| John Saward is a recent graduate of the University of Connecticut. He spends his summers writing for the Danbury News-Times and playing Wiffleball with his younger brother. He has an unhealthy relationship with the University of Michigan football team, and he writes about it on his blog, Ronald Bellamy's Underachieving All-Stars (umichedme.blogspot.com). |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Hail to the Victors 2008
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| DAN SCHLOSSBERG |
| Former AP sportswriter Dan Schlossberg of Fair Lawn, NJ is the author of 34 books. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2008
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| PETER SCHROEDER |
| Peter Schroder is a writer based in Washington, DC. A member of Notre Dame's class of 2006, he has written articles for The Wall Street Journal and contributes to the Notre Dame football blog, The Blue-Gray Sky. He currently works as a reporter for a national trade publication. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2008
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| TOM SHEA |
| Tom Shea is the author of the book Broadway's Most Wanted and a past contributing author to the Total Baseball Companion series. He also authored the "Hit By a Pitch" column for the Total Sports website in 1999 and 2000. He lives on the North Side of Chicago and is a lifelong Cubs fan. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| STUART SHEA |
| Stuart Shea is the author of Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography. A former baseball columnist for Total Sports and America Online and coauthor of two editions of the USA Today Baseball Insider, he lives twenty-four blocks north of Wrigley Field. |
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| STUART SHEA |
| Stuart Shea has worked as a baseball writer and editor for nearly 20 years. Currently an associate editor of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Shea has written four books, including Wrigley Field: An Unauthorized Biography. Shea, also the editor for the annual Fantasy Baseball Index, covers the Cubs at Wrigley Field for MLB.com. A graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, he lives about 24 blocks north of Wrigley Field. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2007, Tigers Corner 2007
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| MARCI SHEAR |
| Marci Shear is a freelance sports writer who has covered Major League Baseball, college sports, and high school sports for many years. She has worked for the Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times and has written for the Chicago Reader and Vine Line. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| JASON SIFFRING |
| Jason Siffring never made it to the NFL, but he did play six-man football for the Rising City Terriers. He publishes Big Red Network (www.bigrednetwork.com), a website dedicated to covering Husker football every day. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
A Sea of Red 2008
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| MATTHEW SILVERMAN |
| Matthew Silverman is author of Mets Essential and 100 Things Mets Fans Should Know & DO Before They Die, co-author of Mets by the Numbers, and co-editor of The Miracle Has Landed, a book profiling the members of the 1969 Mets. He is associate editor of The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia. He can be found at metsilverman.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008
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| STEVE SIPPLE |
| Steve Sipple is in his 18th year at the Lincoln Journal-Star. The two-time Nebraska Sportswriter of the Year spent 12 seasons as the beat writer for the Nebraska football team. The 2007 season marked his first year as the LJS columnist for Husker sports and coordinator of Husker football coverage. Before coming to the Journal Star, Steve worked for a short time for the Grand Island Independent. He is a graduate of Columbus (Neb.) High School and hte University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
A Sea of Red 2008
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| MICHAEL DAVID SMITH |
| Michael David Smith is a Chicago-based sports writer who writes for FanHouse, the New York Times, New York Sun, Fox Sports, Football Outsiders, ProFootballTalk.com, and CollegeFootballTalk.com. Sports Illustrated named Smith Mainstream Media Sports Blogger of the Year for 2007. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| GREG SPIRA |
| Greg Spira is a writer, editor, and researcher of sports books and other titles. The managing editor of the 2008 Baseball Encyclopedia, Greg was born and bred a Mets fan during his childhood in Whitestone, NY. He then attended Harvard College in order to root for the REd Sox against the Yankees. These days he is ensconced in Kingston, NY, where he still maintains an annual tradition of burning M. Donald Grant in effigy every June 15. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008, Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| JON SPRINGER |
| Jon Springer is founder and operatore of the Mets by the Numbers project (mbtn.net) and co-author of the new book of the same name. An editor at a business publication, he lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Meet the Mets 2008
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| DAVE STALEY |
| Dave Staley is an accountant by profession and a diehard Carolina fan by obsession. When he's not focusing on his accounting work (which is most of the time), he's busy entertaining the masses on www.carolinawatercooler.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| HARRISON COLE STEINBERG |
| Harrison Steinberg is a student at University Liggett School and is currently deciding on his collegiate future. Althought the college admissions process is hectic, he still finds time for his passion, baseball. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2008, Tigers Corner 2007
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| JOHN STILLMAN |
| John Stillman is a producer at ESPN Radio in Fayettevill, NC. He is the co-author of www.carolinawatercooler.com, and enjoys arguing with Dave Staley in his spare time. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| BRIAN STOUFFER |
| Brian Stouffer (Chicago, IL) is a 2004 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. His web site, The House Rock Built (http://houserockbuilt.blogspot.com), covers Notre Dame and the rest of the college football world in an offbeat style. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2008, Hail to the Victors 2008, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| JASON SUCHOMEL |
| Jason Suchomel is the editor for Orangebloods.com, an online publication covering the Texas Longhorns. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| ROBERT SULLIVAN |
| Robert Sullivan is the Deputy Managing Editor of LIFE and Editorial Director of LIFE Books. He edited 2001s New York Times #1 best-selling ONE NATION: America Remembers September 11, 2001 (Little, Brown) and has authored several other books, including Flight of the Reindeer, which was the basis of a CBS TV movie; Atlantis Rising; and Our Red Sox: A Story of Family, Friends and Fenway. He resides with his wife and three children in Westchester County, NY. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
You're Still Away, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007
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| DUSTIN SUMMY |
| Dustin Summy is an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Texas, as well as editor and author of Horn Brain at www.burntorangenation.com, where he loves to get emails about how bad his writing is. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| CECILIA TAN |
| Cecilia Tan is the author of The 50 Greatest Yankees Games and has written features for Yankees Magazine, Mudville, Baseball Ink, Baseball Today, and Picto. She produces her own online baseball magazine, Why I Like Baseball, and is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
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| CECILIA TAN |
| Cecilia Tan is the editor of Bombers Broadside and a senior writer for Gotham Baseball magazine. She is the author of The 50 Greatest Yankee Games and a past recipient of the SABR USA Today Research Award. Her online baseball magazine, Why I Like Baseball, can be found at www.whyilikebaseball.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Bombers Broadside 2008, Bombers Broadside 2007
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| DAVE TELEP |
| Dave Telep is the national recruiter director for Scout.com. He lieves in Wake Forest, NC with his wife Paige and son Michael. A University of Delaware graduate, he's writeen for CNNSI, ACC Basketball Handbook, the Sporting News, USA Today, and Yahoo! Sports. He is also the studio analyst for Fox Sports' Countdown to Signing Day. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| JAMES TETREAULT |
| James Tetreault is an engineer living (and dying) with the Sox in central Mass. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual
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| JOSH TIMMERS |
| Josh Timmers is a lifelong Cub fan and minor league fanatic. He writes about the Cub farm system for bleedcubbieblue.com. He lieves in Sacramento with his wife and baby. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008
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| JONATHAN TU |
| Jonathan Tu is a long-suffering USC fan who is so confused by his lack of recent suffering he is wondering who to blame. Most of his friends and family have pointed toward Pete Carroll, but Tu doesn't have the heart to blame Carroll for anything. After his recent trip through college football, Tu is glad to be back in California near his alma mater UC-Santa Barbara and its distinct lack of college football. He enjoys blowouts and long walks on the beach while reading fold-out Sunday sections detailing blowouts. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Yea Alabama 2008
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| CHRIS TURNER |
| Chris Turner, a 33-year-old Oregonian, has been a fan of UNC basketball for 20 years. Captivated the first time he saw a Dean Smith team play, Chris grew to appreciate North Carolina basketball for the principles that Coach Smith stood for--both on and off the court. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| KEN VANGELOFF |
| Ken Vangeloff, a lifelong Indians and Pirates fan, quickly converted to the Cubs after moving to CHicago in 1990. In addition to his Ballhawk exploits, Ken has been on ABC News Nightline, looked Wilt Chamberlain in the eye (Wilt was sitting down) and once drank beer from the Stanley Cup. After over 15 years in the business consulting and knowledge management industries, Ken is a free agent and looking forward to his next career challenge. You can follow along with all the ballhawking adventures outside Wrigley Field at www.ballhawk.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008
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| JOHN VANNIE |
| John Vannie graduated from Notre Dame in 1975 with a degree in Business Management. He has worked in the defense and high technology industries and is currently a senior manager for Northrop Grumman in San Diego. Vannie has written numerous articles about Notre Dame football for various publications and web sites. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2008, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| STEPHEN VETERE |
| Stephen Vetere graduated from MIT during Nomar's rookie year and has been working as an environmental engineer in Massachusetts since Mo left town. He and his wife Serena were married during Grady's first summer, and they have a son that is a few months older than the Red Sox championship trophy. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007, Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2008
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| FRANK VITOVITCH |
| Frank Vitovitch is lifelong Notre Dame fan living in Philadelphia, PA. He works as a Web designer by day, but is the principal writer for the Notre Dame fan site UHND.com by night. Frank has run UHND.com along with Kyle Flavin since 1999 and has written over 500 articles for the site in that time period. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2008, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| BRANDON VOGEL |
| Brandon Vogel is a freelance writer living in Boston, MA. He writes daily--more or less--about Nebraska football on his blog HiPlainsDrifter.com. His work has also appearedon FOXSports.com, MSN.com, the baseball blog Bugs & Cranks, and in BostonNow. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
A Sea of Red 2008
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| MATT WALLACE |
| Matt Wallace is a city planner and has been an avid Tigers fan his entire life. His blog, Take 75 North (www.take75north.com), is devoted to the Tigers minor leage affiliates. He lives in Toledo. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2008
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| JIM WALSH |
| Jim Walsh is the president and founder of Maple Street Press. He has also served as the editor for all three editions of Here Come the Irish and the Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and lives with his wife Mirzah and dogs Rockne and Darwin in Scituate, MA. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Maple Street Press 2006 Red Sox Annual, Here Come the Irish 2006, Here Come the Irish 2008, Here Come the Irish 2007
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| BENJAMIN WASHBURN |
| Benjamin Washburn is a native of Wilmington and a 1979 graduate of the School of Business Administration at UNC. In 2006 he retired after 24 years as an Air Force officer. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant, Ben currently works as a Contract Specialist with the Department of the Navy at NAS Patuxent River in Maryland. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| JEFF WATTRICK |
| Jeff Wattrick is the Project Manager and an employeed of the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy. A former public radio reporter with WDET-FM in Detroit and National Public Radio, he has covered sports stories and events like Super Bowl XL, the 2005 All-Star Game, and the 2004-2005 NHL lockout. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tigers Corner 2008
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| SCOTT WELLS |
| Scott Wells is a graduate of the University of Texas now practicing law in New York City, and an author of Burnt Orange Nation. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
The Eyes Of Texas 2008
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| DOUG WHITE |
| Doug White has been writing about baseball for more than a decade. Currently an associate editor of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, White has written for many baseball publications, including John Benson's annual fantasy guides and The Ultimate Red Sox Companion. He covers the Reds for MLB.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008, Wrigley Season Ticket 2007
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| THAD WILLIAMSON |
| Thad Williamson is a lifelong fan of UNC basketball who operated the manual wooden scoreboard in Carmichael Auditorium and the Smith Center for six years as a tennager growing up in Chapel Hill. Currently an assistant professor teaching political science and leadership at the University of Richmond, he is author of the 2001 book More Than a Game: Why North Carolina Basketball Means So Much To So Many, as well as hundreds of articles and commentaries about Tar Heels basketball for Inside Carolina and its web site. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Tar Heel Tip-off 2007-2008
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| COLIN WYERS |
| Colin Wyers is a freelance author living in Davenport, IA, with his wife, Katie, and their daughters Nikki and Tessa. Previously he was a combat correspondent in the United States Marine Corps, where he wrote articles on Marine Corps units at home and during Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008
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| AL YELLON |
| Al Yellon, a lifelong Cubs fan, is the editor of Wrigley Season Ticket whose day job is directing television newscasts for ABC-7 in Chicago. When he's not at work, he can generally be found in the left field bleachers at Wrigley Field; he lives two and a half miles from the ballpark. He also runs the Cubs fansite www.bleedcubbieblue.com. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008
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| BRAD ZIBUNG |
| As publisher of The Heckler and TheHeckler.com, Brad Zibung used to write Kyle Farnsworth jokes for a living. Now he writes Alfonso Soriano jokes for a living. |
| Maple Street Press Publications:
Wrigley Season Ticket 2008
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