Lee Lowenfish

During the 1980s Lowenfish hosted and produced "Seventh Inning Stretch," a radio sports magazine on WBAI-Pacifica in New York that covered many sports, including women's sports, for which he won an award from the Women's Sports Foundation. His radio commentaries have also appeared on WNYC, National Public Radio. From 1968 to 1975, he taught American studies and American history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Rutgers College-New Brunswick, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where one of his students wrote the best short definition of the meaning of sports he has ever heard: "You have to give it all you've got, and you have to learn how to take a beating." Lowenfish has written the two editions of The Imperfect Diamond: A History of Baseball's Labor Wars and wrote The Art of Pitching with Tom Seaver. His fourth book about baseball, a biography, Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman (University of Nebraska Press), was published in 2007. It won a Choice award from the American Library Association and the prestigious Seymour medal from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR); it has been out in paperback since 2009. Prof. Lowenfish's recent work has focused on studies in baseball scouting, a subject for which he blogs monthly on Johanna Wagner's lovemyteam.com website.  He also blogs on his own website, leelowenfish.com, and for booktrib.com. A native of New York City, he holds a B.A. from Columbia and an M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lee Lowenfish teaches Socio-Historical Foundations of American Sport.