Major League Rebels

Robert Elias is Dean’s Scholar and professor of politics and legal studies at the University of San Francisco. His baseball books include The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad, Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender and the National Pastime, and The Deadly Tools of Ignorance. He has been published in the Washington Post, The Progressive, The Humanist, Social Policy, Peace Review, Counterpunch, Transatlantica, and many others. He is a longtime SABR and Baseball Reliquary member and has given baseball presentations at the Baseball Reliquary, the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, and the Nine Spring Training Conference. Peter Dreier is E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and chair of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. A former newspaper reporter, community organizer, and senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, he has authored or coauthored four books, including The 100 Greatest Americans of the Twentieth Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for A Livable City, Place Matters: Metro Politics for the Twenty-First Century, and Regions that Work. He’s a member of SABR and the Baseball Reliquary, and has published hundreds of articles, op-ed columns, and essays on baseball, politics and social movements for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, the Nation, American Prospect, Dissent, New Republic, Huffington Post, Salon, and elsewhere. He frequently appears in the national media and has been interviewed by Bill Moyers, Travis Smiley, and Bill O’Reilly, among others.