Steve Gietschier
Steve Gietschier (1948 – ) spent 22 years at The Sporting News, serving as the editor for many of their annual publications and developing The Sporting News Research Center into an important destination for baseball researchers. He has written or edited many baseball history articles, taught courses on American sport and baseball, and his book Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2023. He is also the editor of Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles: The Most Iconic Moments in American Sports (2017).
Related links:
- Click here to read Lyle Spatz’s profile of Steve Gietschier in the Spring 2023 Baseball Research Journal
- “Before We Forget: The Birth, Life, and Death of The Sporting News Research Center,” by Steve Gietschier (Spring 2020 Baseball Research Journal)
- Before The ‘Bible of Baseball’: The First Quarter-Century of The Sporting News, by Steve Gietschier (Road Trips)
- Read more articles by Steve Gietschier from the SABR Research Collection