Dr. Raymond I. Schuck’s essay “Babe’s in Tourland: How Babe Ruth was Well-Suited for Barnstorming” was published in the edited volume Baseball and the ‘Sultan of Swat’: Babe Ruth at 100, which was released in fall of 2008. Also in the fall of 2008, two other of Dr. Schuck’s manuscripts were accepted for publication. His essay “Bob Dole and the Brooklyn Dodgers” was accepted for publication in an edited volume on politics and baseball and his essay “From Politics to Personal Expression: Representations of Sport in Walter Dean Myers’ Young Adult Works” was accepted for publication in an edited volume on young adult literature. Additionally, in October 2008, Dr. Schuck gave a presentation on “Ancient Greece and the Origins of Rhetoric” as part of the Western Civilization Speaker Series at Ohio Northern University and he presented the paper “When ‘Mazings converge: Contextualizing ‘Mazing Man’s trip to Shea Stadium” at The Comic Book in Popular Culture Conference at Bowling Green State University.
