Photography © David Leifer 2006
Roger I. Abrams, of Boston, Massachusetts, is the Richardson Professor of Law at Northeastern University and a Major League Baseball salary arbitrator since 1986. His commentaries on baseball have appeared in the nation's leading publications, and on television and radio. His previous books on the history of the National Game have won universal acclaim.
"Wearing lightly his notable learning, Abrams writes with verve and intelligence." - New York Times Book Review
Roger I. Abrams is the Richardson Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. An honors graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard Law School, Professor Abrams is a recognized authority on Sports Law. He has published three books on the National Pastime, THE FIRST WORLD SERIES AND THE BASEBALL FANATICS OF 1903; THE MONEY PITCH: BASEBALL FREE AGENCY AND SALARY ARBITRATION; and LEGAL BASES: BASEBALL AND THE LAW. His fourth book, THE DARK SIDE OF THE DIAMOND: GAMBLING, VIOLENCE, DRUGS AND ALCOHOLISM IN THE NATIONAL PASTIME, will be available in 2008. He has served as a baseball salary arbitrator starting in 1986, and he is regularly asked to comment on legal and economic issues involving the national game by the print and electronic media. For example, in 2007 Professor Abrams was quoted in the American Lawyer, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press, among other newspapers. He appeared on National Public Radio and WGBH in Boston. In the fall of 2006, Professor Abrams served as Scholar-in-Residence at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
Professor Abrams served as dean of Northeastern University School of Law from 1999-2002, as dean at Rutgers University Law School from 1993-1998, and as dean at Nova University School of Law from 1986-1993. Prior to entering academic life in 1974 as a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University, Professor Abrams practiced law in Boston at Foley Hoag & Eliot and clerked for Judge Frank M Coffin of the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
An elected member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1982, Professor Abrams serves as a permanent arbitrator for Walt Disney World, the Internal Revenue Service, Lockheed-Martin and the Customs Service. He has authored over 35 law review articles on labor arbitration, sports law and other legal issues in law journals at Harvard, Michigan, and Duke, among others. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a life member of the American Bar Foundation. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Cecilia Tan writes about her many passions, from erotic fantasy to baseball, from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of Black Feathers and The Velderet, and has edited over forty anthologies for the publishing house she founded, Circlet Press. Her fiction has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Best American Erotica, and many other places. She and Nowlin have co-edited The Fenway Project and '75: The Red Sox Team that Saved Baseball and co-wrote the upcoming The 50 Greatest Red Sox Games.
Everett Skehan grew-up in Brockton, Massachusetts. He now lives in Maine and is working on a history of the New England jazz scene.
For years, Raffi has been North America's most successful children's recording artist. His live performances, award-winning CDs, concert videos, and songbooks have made him our premier family entertainer.]]>
Everything Grows
For years, Raffi has been North America's most successful children's recording artist. His live performances, award-winning CDs, concert videos, and songbooks have made him our premier family entertainer.
When not busy doing good works, Jim Prime lives a monastic life in New Minas, Nova Scotia.]]>
Blood Feud; The Red Sox, The Yankees, and the Struggle of Good versus Evil
When not busy doing good works, Jim Prime lives a monastic life in New Minas, Nova Scotia. He is the author of several baseball books, including Ted Williams' Hit List, Tales From the Red Sox Dugout and The Little Red Sox Book. His angelic wife Glenna knits colorful crying towels for depressed Yankee fans. His cherubic children, Jeffrey and Catherine, have now gone forth to spread the Red Sox gospel to the world.
Leroy Jodie Pierson, born in St. Louis in 1947, has been a professional blues guitarist/vocalist his entire adult life. He learned his craft first-hand playing with legendary friends Son House, Fred McDowell, Johnny Shines, Henry Townsend, Yank Rachel, Rev. Robert Wilkins, and Mance Lipscomb. He has performed throughout America and has toured Africa, the Middle East, and Jamaica and has released albums on the Nighthawk and APO labels. In addition he has done studio production work on albums by St. Louisans Henry Townsend and Fontella Bass and Jamaican artists Justin Hinds, Junior Byles, the Ethiopians, the Gladiators, the Itals, and Culture. He has written the liner notes of over 60 albums for companies like Vanguard, Heartbeat, Columbia, Boogie Disease, Sony, Island, Nighthawk, JAD, and Tuff Gong. In St. Louis, he is also well known for his 14 years as a popular radio dj promoting blues and reggae. He has been a dedicated Wailers collector since the late '70s. As a writing team, he and co-author Roger Steffens have annotated the entire Wailers catalog from 1964-1972.
Neil Peart is an internationally critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-nominated author, and for more than thirty years has been the legendary drummer and lyricist for Rush, the most successful band in the history of Canadian rock music.]]>
Roadshow: Landscape with Drums - A Concert Tour by Motorcycle
Adam Pachter is the author of the novel Ash (ISBN 0-89754-192-8) and numerous short stories. Pachter has edited both Fenway Fiction books, and he won the Improper Bostonian magazine's inaugural fiction contest for his story "Lotion." In addition, Pachter's work has appeared in Italy from a Backpack, Boston Metro, and the Word Riot Anthology. Pachter also writes for WGBH, Boston's public television station, and teaches classes on how to write a first novel. He lives in Arlington, MA, with his wife and young daughter, whom he has taught to say "Go Red Sox" and "Coco Crisp."
Carrie Nuttall has been a photographer since 1997 and currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband Neil and their dog Winston.]]>
Rhythm & Light
Carrie Nuttall has been a photographer since 1997 and currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband Neil and their dog Winston. She specializes in documenting musicians in both performance and portrait settings.
BILL NOWLIN
Frederick Lewis is a free lance writer and independent television producer whose work has aired on PBS stations across the country.]]>
Young at Heart: The Story of Johnny Kelley - Boston's Marathon Man
Frederick Lewis is a free lance writer and independent television producer whose work has aired on PBS stations across the country. A 2:49 marathoner back in the day, he produced, wrote and directed That Golden Distance, an Emmy winning documentary about the early days of the Boston Marathon.