ABSTRACT
When I started graduate school in 1968, I had no grand plan to study the history of sport. Yet two years later I was writing a dissertation proposal on baseball. I did that to make my mark, maybe blaze a new trail and, hopefully, catch someone’s attention and get a teaching position. However, when I came on the job market in the early 1970s, history departments did not know what to make of a historian of sport – they certainly did not advertise any such position, nor have they since.
