Happening in 2016: The Institute of Baseball ribbon-cutting ceremony, January 15, Whittier College .... Co-Chair, the NINE Spring Training Conference, March 11-14, Tempe, Arizona .... Continuing memoir-writing workshops.... June 1, The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, Cooperstown, New York: Moderator, Skirting the Game: A Conversation with Author Jane Leavy (Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy and The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood) and Architect Janet Marie Smith (Camden Yards, Fenway Park, Dodger Stadium) ... July 17, The Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals ceremony, Pasadena, California, Introductory Remarks for Inductee Arnold Hano ... Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey, by Ila Jane Borders with Jean Hastings Ardell, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press, Spring 2017
How I got this way: I grew up in New York City, the daughter of a mother who loved books and a father who loved baseball. Ever since, literature and the game of baseball have informed my life. I became a writer because stories demand to be told -- of places, events, and people. I also find satisfaction in working as an editor and teacher with others who seek to write their stories.
The profile is a favorite form. I’ve published pieces on authors Geoffrey Wolff and Dean Koontz (the Orange County Press Club’s Best Profile of 1995), Jack Peltason, president of the University of California, and artist Alexandra Nechita. Recent profiles include Mr. October, Reggie Jackson, www.newportbeachmag.com; Laguna’s Scribe of Summer, baseball author Arnold Hano www.lagunabeachmag.com; and Mark McGwire, in the Shady Canyon Golf Club magazine.
At times a particular issue compels me: I’ve published features on the health hazards of electromagnetic fields, domestic violence, charity telemarketing, Major League Baseball's Urban Youth Academy in Compton, and the Orange County (California) Republican Party. By 2012, I found political issues so compelling that I began a regular column, "Left of Center." newportbeachindy.com
Whenever I discover a place of interest, I like to share the news. My published travel articles include one on a self-guided boat trip up England’s Thames River, a reprise on the 100th anniversary of one of my favorite books, Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat; the Wine Country of Santa Barbara County, published a decade before the appearance of the film, Sideways; and the rekindling of a family tradition with my son and his wife on a camping trip to Mineral King, California. Food goes along with travel, and I’ve written about my encounter with the green chiles of New Mexico, dining out along San Francisco’s cable car routes, and the foolishness of trying to stick to a diet in France (lost weight anyway.)
Speaking of travel, each March I head to Arizona where I co-chair the NINE Spring Training Conference, a collegial gathering of baseball scholars, with Trey Strecker of Louisiana State University. To learn more, please click on All About Baseball.
How I got this way: I grew up in New York City, the daughter of a mother who loved books and a father who loved baseball. Ever since, literature and the game of baseball have informed my life. I became a writer because stories demand to be told -- of places, events, and people. I also find satisfaction in working as an editor and teacher with others who seek to write their stories.
The profile is a favorite form. I’ve published pieces on authors Geoffrey Wolff and Dean Koontz (the Orange County Press Club’s Best Profile of 1995), Jack Peltason, president of the University of California, and artist Alexandra Nechita. Recent profiles include Mr. October, Reggie Jackson, www.newportbeachmag.com; Laguna’s Scribe of Summer, baseball author Arnold Hano www.lagunabeachmag.com; and Mark McGwire, in the Shady Canyon Golf Club magazine.
At times a particular issue compels me: I’ve published features on the health hazards of electromagnetic fields, domestic violence, charity telemarketing, Major League Baseball's Urban Youth Academy in Compton, and the Orange County (California) Republican Party. By 2012, I found political issues so compelling that I began a regular column, "Left of Center." newportbeachindy.com
Whenever I discover a place of interest, I like to share the news. My published travel articles include one on a self-guided boat trip up England’s Thames River, a reprise on the 100th anniversary of one of my favorite books, Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat; the Wine Country of Santa Barbara County, published a decade before the appearance of the film, Sideways; and the rekindling of a family tradition with my son and his wife on a camping trip to Mineral King, California. Food goes along with travel, and I’ve written about my encounter with the green chiles of New Mexico, dining out along San Francisco’s cable car routes, and the foolishness of trying to stick to a diet in France (lost weight anyway.)
Speaking of travel, each March I head to Arizona where I co-chair the NINE Spring Training Conference, a collegial gathering of baseball scholars, with Trey Strecker of Louisiana State University. To learn more, please click on All About Baseball.
