Robert M. Gorman

Robert M. Gorman is a retired university librarian with more than 40 years of research experience. Bob has published numerous articles on baseball history, including "Foul Play: Fan Fatalities in Twentieth-Century Organized Baseball" appearing in Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture (Fall 2003), which was co-authored with David Weeks. This article received the 2003 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award. His book, Death at the Ballpark, won the 2009 Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award. Bob is also co-author of the book, The South Bend Blue Sox: A History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Team and Its Players: 1943-1954. His most recent book is Sixty-One in ‘61: Roger Maris Home Runs Game-by-Game. He maintains a blog on baseball safety issues (http://deathattheballpark.wordpress.com/). Bob can be contacted at gormanr@comporium.net.