Rob Edelman
Rob Edelman (1949-2019) was the preeminent expert on the history of baseball in film and cinema, publishing countless articles and several books on that subject. He was the editor of SABR’s From Spring Training to Screen Test: Baseball Players Turned Actors in 2018, and also wrote Great Baseball Films and Baseball on the Web. With his wife, Audrey Kupferberg, he coauthored Meet the Mertzes, a double biography of Vivian Vance and super-baseball fan William Frawley, and Matthau: A Life. For many years, he broadcast weekly film commentaries on WAMC Northeast Public Radio and taught Film Studies courses at the University at Albany. He was a frequent lecturer on baseball and film topics. Rob was born on March 25, 1949 in Queens, but he spent the first half of his life in Brooklyn. He held a bachelor’s degree from a combination of colleges, including Syracuse University and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He was a cultural Jew. In 1987, Rob married Audrey and in 1991 they moved to Audrey’s hometown of Amsterdam to help care for his mother-in-law. They enjoyed their life in Amsterdam and settled down in the house where Audrey grew up.
SABR books edited by Rob Edelman
SABR BioProject biographies written by Rob Edelman
SABR Games Project stories written by Rob Edelman
SABR Journal Articles written by Rob Edelman
- The Babe: In Person and On Screen
- Babe Ruth Characterizations — and Caricatures
- “Shorty,” “Brother Lou,” and the Dodgers’ Sym-phony
- Introduction: From Spring Training to Screen Test
- Baseball and Classic Television: A Brief Overview
- Baseball and Coca-Cola: A Match Made in America
- De Wolf Hopper, Digby Bell, and the Five A’s
- Thomas Tull: On Dark Knights, Hangovers, and Baseball
- Ron Shelton: On Cobb, Bull Durham, and Baseball-On-Screen
- Honus Wagner, Spring Fever, and Two Three Stooges
- Roberto Clemente and The Odd Couple: Two Different Stories
- Gladys Goodding, Ebbets Field Organ Queen
- ‘Yer blind, Ump, Yer blind, Ump, Ya mus’ be out-a yer mind, Ump!’: Umpires on Screen and Stage
- Brooklyn, The Dodgers … and The Movies
- The Many Faces of Happy Felton
SABR Research Topics written by Rob Edelman
SABR Research Articles written by Rob Edelman
SABR Ballparks written by Rob Edelman