Ron Briley has taught American history and film classes at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the last thirty-five years. In addition to numerous scholarly articles and presentations, he has written and edited Class at Bat, Class on Deck, and Gender in the Hole (2003), James T. Farrell's Dreaming Baseball (2007), All-Stars and Movie Stars (2008), The Politics of Baseball (2010), and The Baseball Film in Postwar America (2011).