Louis P. Masur

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1. Donald Honig

   Author of Baseball when the grass was real : baseball from the twenties to the forties told by the men who played it, The Man in the Dugout: Fifteen Big League Managers Speak Their Minds, The October Heroes: Great World Series Games Remembered by the Men Who Played Them

2. Jim Reisler

   Author of A Great Day in Cooperstown: The Miraculous and Unlikely Beginning of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Runyon on Baseball

3. Gary W. Gallagher

   Author of The Confederate War, The Third Day at Gettysburg & Beyond (Military Campaigns of the Civil War), The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

4. Jack P. Greene

   Author of Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture, Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era, The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800

5. Richard L. Bushman

   Author of The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities, From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765, The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745 (Institute of Early American History & Culture)

6. Don Warfield

   Author of The Roaring Redhead: Larry MacPhail: Baseball's Great Innovator

7. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820

8. Joyce Appleby

   Author of Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans

9. Edmund S. Morgan

   Author of American Slavery, American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

10. David W. Blight

    Author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

11. Charles Sellers

    Author of The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846

12. Ron LeFlore

    Author of Breakout: From Prison to the Big Leagues

13. Lee Lowenfish

    Author of The Imperfect Diamond: A History of Baseball's Labor Wars (A Da Capo Paperback)

14. Don Edward Fehrenbacher

    Author of The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery

15. Gene Carney

    Author of Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded

16. Walter Johnson

    Author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

17. Alfred H. Spink

    Author of The National Game, Second Edition (Writing Baseball)

18. Joe Williams

    Author of The Joe Williams Baseball Reader: The Glorious Game, from Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth to the Amazing Mets : 50 Years of Baseba

19. Tyler Anbinder

    Author of Nativism and Slavery : The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s

20. Kathleen M. Brown

    Author of Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia