George Gmelch, professor of anthropology, published an essay on the season's new baseball books in the April issue of Natural History. Also, Gmelch was named to the editorial board of Nine: the Journal of Baseball History and Culture, published by the University of Nebraska Press. He also published a review essay in Newsday, “Of Dinosaurs, Bats, and Balls,” on the “Baseball as America” exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.