Baseball Imposters: The Dark Side of Fandom - Paperback

Sheinkopf, Rob: - Rob Sheinkopf, originally from Syracuse, New York, is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and has presented his research over many years to SABR and to the Sport Literature Association (SLA), to NINE -the history and culture of baseball, and to the Cooperstown Symposium at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Rob is the author and editor of "Hey Mom, wanna have a catch?", an anthology of baseball stories honoring parents who encourage or simply put up with their child's love for and obsession with our National Pastime. Rob is also the author of Baseball Imposters, the dark side of fandom, based upon his research and writing about grown men who falsely pass themselves off as former major league baseball players. Both of those books are available wherever great books are sold online. Signed copies are available on the author's website. After a 40 year career in higher education, Rob retired and moved to San Francisco where he found his dream job as a luxury suites concierge for the Giants. Keeping a diary of his first year's daily activities, he wrote and presented a paper, My Year in the Big Leagues at the international conference of the Sport Literature Association in Limoges, France. Unfortunately, shortly thereafter, the global pandemic ended Rob's promising baseball concierging career. Rob and his wife, Lisa, provide a loving home for their dog, Bochy, in Las Vegas as well as in Ponte Vedra, Florida, dividing their time between the two as they trade intense heat and traffic jams for uncomfortable humidity and strange, unidentifiable bugs at various times of the year to be with their 5-year-old granddaughter, Molly, and her mom and dad. Rob never played major league baseball, but he knows a lot of guys who claim they have.