Mitch Nathanson
Professor of Legal Writing
Biography
Professor Nathanson received his JD from the Georgetown University Law Center and his BA from Tulane University. Much of his scholarship has focused on sports-related topics; specifically, the interplay between sport and society. His recent book, The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit (McFarland, 2008) was a social history of 20th century Philadelphia as told through the relationship between the city and its baseball teams – the Athletics and the Phillies. A portion of this book was based on his article, The Irrelevance of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption: A Historical Review, 58 Rutgers L. Rev. 1 (2005),which was awarded the 2006 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, presented annually by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) in recognition of the best historical or biographical articles of the year. In 2009 he was the co-producer and writer of “Base Ball: The Philadelphia Game,” a documentary on the 19th century development of the game within the city that is part of a larger documentary project, “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment,” currently in production. He has twice been invited to present his work at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture – widely regarded as the preeminent academic baseball conference – at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and is currently at work on “A People’s History of Baseball,” scheduled for publication in 2012.
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