George B. Kirsch is a professor of history at Manhattan College and a sports historian who has written and edited eleven books. His best known works are Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72; Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime and the Civil War; and Golf in America. He has served as a consultant for Major League Baseball and for Ken Burns’s PBS series, Baseball. He has also been a guest speaker at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY and the Museum of the United States Golf Association in Far Hills, NJ.