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teenage son. Dan lives in Framingham, Massachusetts, and can be reached at d elds820@gmail.com.
James Forr is a past winner of the McFarland- SABR Baseball Research Award, and co-author (with David Proctor) of Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was a fact-checker for a number of pieces in several BioProject books, including this one. He is one of the leaders of SABR’s Games Project.
Peter M. Gordon rst joined SABR in 1984 and has contributed several articles and bios to SABR books and websites. He is an award-winning poet whose collection, Two Car Garage, was published in 2012. He blogs about content development at www.myprogramidea.blogspot.com and about the Rays at rayscoloredglasses.com. Peter lives in Orlando, FL and teaches in the Film MFA program at Full Sail University.
Tom Harkins is two days older than Dick Drago and although he has been a Red Sox season ticketholder in the bleachers since 1985, he missed the 2004 World Series games in Fenway because he was at a Notre Dame football game (a greater love than the Red Sox). A SABR member since 1988 he is a retired school librarian who lives in Needham, Massachusetts.
Joanne Hulbert, co-chair of the Boston Chapter and SABR’s Baseball Arts Committee, spends long hours obsessively gathering baseball poetry when not at Fenway Park. A resident of Mudville, a village of Holliston, Massachusetts, she occasionally leaves her poetic pursuit to indulge in something completely di erent. She has found that there’s always something poetic about the life of an obscure and often forgotten player who has a story just as important and valuable to baseball history as any Hall of Fame inductee.
Bob Hurte writes for BioProject and is a member of SABR’s Elysian Fields Chapter in New Jersey. When he is not writing, he is a former com- missioner and vice president on his local recreation association where he also coaches his two sons in
baseball and soccer. It would be an understatement to say that he is an avid Pittsburgh Pirates fan. He has been one since birth and begins every season convinced that his beloved Pirates will end up in the World Series! Half of the player bios that he has written are on Pirate players. In 1993 he attended Pirates Dream Week where he met several of his favorite players and began friendships with several of them. Bob has completed 18 marathons, and enjoys reading books on American history in addition to savoring handcrafted beer. He shares a 125-year-old house with his wife Barbara, children Matthew (deceased), Tegan (20), and Samuel (16). He is co-authoring a book with published author Dale Caldwell entitled Intelligent In uence in Baseball.
Seamus Kearney is the Co-Chair of the Connie Mack Chapter in Philadelphia. He is the veteran of many SABR conventions and coordinated the Boston and Philadelphia conventions, 2002 & 2013, respectively. A native of Philadelphia, he hitch- hiked to Boston, stayed nearly four decades, founded the Boston Chapter of SABR, served on the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame Selection Committee, re- searched Vermont baseball—and returned home to Philly in 2007. He co-authored e Philadelphia Phillies (Arcadia, 2011) with Dick Rosen. He lives with his wife, Joan, near his old Philly neighborhood and is currently researching Philadelphia baseball, cultural, and industrial history — among other things.
Bob LeMoine, a native of South Portland, Maine, grew up watching the Red Sox and NBC’s Game of the Week on a black-and-white television. He dreamed of one day becoming a Red Sox an- nouncer. While other kids imitated star players on the ball eld, he imagined Ned Martin calling the game. Bob joined SABR in 2013. He currently works as a high school librarian, which gives him ample op- portunities to exclaim “Mercy!” in tribute to Ned. He lives in Rochester, New Hampshire.
Len Levin had the good fortune of attending Game One of the 1975 World Series and exulting as Luis Tiant ba ed the Reds. Len is a retired newspaper