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of Nova Scotia with his wife, Glenna. His most recent book is From e Babe to the Beards, co-authored with Bill “Grounders and Rounder’s” Nowlin. Other Prime books currently on the bookshelves include Amazing Tales from the 2004 Boston Red Sox Dugout and Tales from the Toronto Blue Jays Dugout.
Mike Richard retired as a guidance counselor from Gardner (Massachusetts) High School and has been a sportswriter and columnist for nearly 40 years. He presently writes for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. A lifelong Red Sox fan who still counts the 1967 Impossible Dream season his biggest baseball thrill, he has contributed to several SABR BioProject books. He lives with his wife Peggy in Gardner, Mass. and they also own a house on Cape Cod. ey are the parents of two adult children Casey and Lindsey and a grandson eo. He is presently working on a book about Baseball Markers, Memorials and Gravestones of New England.
Carl Riechers retired from United Parcel Service in 2012 after 35 years of service. With more free time, he became a SABR member that same year. Born and raised in the suburbs of St. Louis, he became a big fan of the Cardinals. He and his wife Janet have three children and is the proud grandpa of two.
Doug Skipper has contributed to a number of SABR publications, presented research at national and regional conventions, and pro led more than a dozen players and managers for the SABR Baseball Biographical Project. A SABR member since 1982, he is serving as president of the Halsey Hall (Minneapolis) Chapter in 2014-2015, and a member of the Deadball Era Committee, and is interested in the history of Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics, the Boston Red Sox, the Minnesota Twins, and old ballparks. A market research consultant residing in Apple Valley, Minnesota, Doug is also a veteran of father-daughter dancing. Doug and his wife have two daughters, MacKenzie and Shannon.
Curt Smith, says USA Today, is “America’s voice of authority on baseball broadcasting.” His 16 books include the classic Voices of e Game, Pull Up a Chair:
e Vin Sully Story, Storied Stadiums, A Talk in the Park, and his newest—George H.W. Bush: Character at the Core. Smith wrote more speeches than anyone for former President George Bush, e New York Times calling his work “the high point of Bush familial elo- quence.” He is a GateHouse Media and mlb.com columnist, has won the Associated Press “Best radio Commentary” award for New York State, and has hosted series at Fenway Park, the Smithsonian Institution, the Boston Museum of Science, and National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. He lives with his family in Upstate New York.
Matthew Silver man, former associate publisher at Total Sports Publishing, has written 10 books on baseball and is working on a book centered in 1986. His rst World Series experience came at age 10 and his shout when Carlton Fisk’s ball struck the foul pole at 12:34 a.m. alerted his parents that he was not fast asleep, but gleefully awake.
David C. Southwick is former publicity coordinator of the Boston Chapter of SABR. He conceived and initiated SABR’s rst team book for the BioProject, on the 1975 Red Sox: ’75: e Red Sox Team at Saved Baseball. When his beloved Red Sox are out of season, he is a dedicated supporter of his alma mater’s sports teams, the North Quincy (Massachusetts) High School Red Raiders. David presently resides in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
A partial Red Sox season ticket-holder, Mark S. Sternman has focused his baseball writing on the older Boston squad with biographies of Jack Burdock, Ben Cardoni, Scotty Ingerton, Fred Tenney, and Sam Wise along with contributions to e Miracle Braves of 1914: Boston’s Original Worst-to-First World Series Champions. At the age of 7, Sternman watched but had no rooting interest in the 1975 World Series since at that point he rooted for Felix Millan and the New York Mets before switching over to the Yankees after the Mets released Millan in 1977. Director of Marketing & Communications for MassDevelopment, Sternman lives in Massachusetts with his wife Kate and stepdaughter Ella.