Baldassaro, Lawrence

Lawrence Baldassaro is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature and Director of the University Honors Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the coeditor of 'The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity.' A native of Massachusetts, he is a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan. Dom DiMaggio, a teammate and close friend of Ted Williams, played center field for the Red Sox. Richard A. Johnson, editor of the Sportstown Series, is Curator of the Sports Museum of New England and the author of 'A Century of Boston Sports, ' also published by Northeastern University Press.