Scott D. Peterson writes fiction, researches baseball literature, and has taught classes in composition, creative writing, American literature, and sports media at the University of Maine, Wright State University, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His publications focus on baseball fiction and scholarly articles tracing the ways journalists and journalists turned short story writers wrote baseball into American culture. His book, Reporting Baseball’s Sensational Season of 1890, examines the Sporting Life journalism covering the Brotherhood labor war of that year. He lives in Dayton with his wife and enjoys travel, reading, and pickle ball.