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Jenny, a Sox fan, in 1990. A lawyer practicing in Waterbury, Connecticut (the hometown of Roger Connor, Jimmy Piersall, Dave Wallace, and Ron Diorio), he has always had an interest in doing research on and collecting memorabilia of Connecticut- born players.
Clem Comly was a 30-year SABR member and longtime co-chair of its Statistical Analysis Committee. Clem also served as vice president and treasurer of Retrosheet and a volunteer from its beginnings. Clem is Retrosheet’s Cy Young of play-by-play translation and computer input. Clem died in 2014; a new vol- unteer would have to code and enter each play from every game from 1932 through 1944 to beat Clem’s record.
John Contois is Founder and President of Sun Diagnostics, a diagnostic device manufacturer in New Gloucester, Maine. Previously, he worked for many years as a clinical laboratory director. John re- ceived his BS from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and PhD from the University of Connecticut. He has published more than 50 articles and book chapters related to laboratory medicine, and more recently, baseball biographies. John lives in Yarmouth Maine with his wife, Ru, and daughters Stephanie and Samantha.
Herb Crehan is in his 20th season as a con- tributing writer for the Boston Red Sox. He has written well over 100 feature articles for the team’s o cial program. He is the author of Lightning In A Bottle: e Sox of ’67 and Red Sox Heroes of Yesteryear, and he has contributed chapters to ve other books on Boston baseball history. Crehan speaks extensively on Boston baseball history including appearances at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, WBZ radio, NPR’s All ings Considered, Forbes.com, and numerous Society of Baseball Research (SABR) meetings.
Jon Daly is a Connecticut native. His father introduced him to baseball and the Red Sox during the 1975 season. Because he was a young lad at the time, he expected the Red Sox to play in the World
Series every year. Boy, was he wrong! Jon was been able to combine two of his passions, writing and sports, and has contributed to numerous websites as well as eight biographies for SABR’s BioProject.
Bob Donaldson is a lifelong Red Sox fan, born a few months after Yaz completed his rookie season. In 1970 he attended his rst game and saw his hero Yaz hit a rst-inning home run. In 1975 he spent many afternoons at Fenway including Game Two of the World Series. Bob is a bit of a pack rat and still has the rst cards he pulled from a pack in 1967 (threw out the game though.) 1975 being a special season, Bob kept a lot of stu , some of which is used to il- lustrate this book. Bob lives in Lincoln with his wife Cristine, teenage stepchildren Liz and Wil, and daughter Sara (3 years old in 2005, favorite player Johnny Damon).
Alex Edelman is a 2012 graduate of New York University, where he majored in English literature and wrote a thesis on the concept of landlessness in Moby Dick.. is is the sixth BioProject collection he has appeared in. His second e ort, on 1967 Red Sox pitcher Billy Rohr, received a Jack R. Kavanaugh Award. A native of Boston who spent several years working in PR departments at the Red Sox, Dodgers, and Brewers, Edelman is also an acclaimed professional stand-up comedian. In 2014, he won the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, the rst American to do so since 1997. He enjoys Italian food and the work of David Foster Wallace.
Greg Erion is retired from the railroad industry and currently teaches history part-time at Skyline Community College in San Bruno, California. He has written several biographies for SABR’s BioProject and is currently working on a book about the 1959 season. Greg is one of the leaders of SABR’s Baseball Games Project. He and his wife Barbara live in South San Francisco, California.
Dan Fields is a manuscript editor at the New England Journal of Medicine. He loves baseball trivia, and he regularly attends Boston Red Sox and Pawtucket (Rhode Island) Red Sox games with this