Dr. Harvey Frommer received his Ph.D. from New York University. Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Professor nominee, and recipient of the "Salute to Scholars Award" at CUNY where he taught writing for many years, he was cited in the Congressional Record and by the New York State Legislature as a sports historian and journalist.

His many sports books include: Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball, New York City Baseball: 1947-1957, the New York Yankee Encyclopedia, and autobiographies of sports legends Nolan Ryan, Red Holzman and Tony Dorsett. The prolific Frommer is also the author of A Yankee Century, Red Sox vs Yankees:The Great Rivalry (with Frederic J. Frommer), and Five O'Clock Lightning: The 1927 Yankees. His REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM was published to acclaim in 2008 and CELEBRATING FENWAY PARK is set for 2011 publication.

Historian, selected by the City of New York to research and write materials for the old Yankee Stadium site, 2010

Expert Witness, selected by Major League Baseball to testify as a baseball expert in a copyright infringement case, 2006

Keynote speaker, selected by Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) to deliver the keynote speech at Seventh Annual Seymour Conference in Cleveland, 2005

Guest Curator and Executive Producer, selected by B'nai B'rith International for the "Stars of David: Jews in Sports" exhibit that ran for six months at the Klutznik Museum in Washington, D.C., 1991

Author, Growing Up at Bat, selected by Little League Baseball to research and write their 40th anniversary book, 1987

Editor and major author for Games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad, selected by International Sport Publishing, 1984

Principal author of A Baseball Century: the First Hundred Years of the National League, selected by National League, 1975.

Along with his wife Myrna Katz Frommer, he also teaches in the MALS program at Dartmouth College the course Preserving the Past: Oral History in Theory and Practice. Harvey has also taught Sports Journalism in Theory and Practice at Dartmouth College.

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