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Banned from Baseball

It’s 1989, and the new Commissioner of Major League Baseball and former president of Yale University, Bart Giamatti, and baseball’s reigning Hit King, Pete Rose, engage in professional and legal combat for the soul of America’s Pastime: a titanic battle that will leave Giamatti dead of a heart attack and Rose banished to the perennial purgatory of permanent ineligibility. Giamatti wants Rose’s confession at all costs. Rose wants Giamatti to accept his denials of betting on baseball against the mounting evidence of his guilt.  BANNED FROM BASEBALL tells a human story about baseball’s blue-collar Hit King blinded by a belief in his own invincibility, and the patrician Commissioner of Baseball, blinded by his self-regarding idealism.

For future production inquiries, contact: patricia.ohara@fandm.edu

Banned from Baseball Production History

Banned from Baseball was produced by The Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, OH, September 6-23, 2018.*

REVIEWS
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Liz Eichler, "'Banned from Baseball' is a Homerun for Human Race
Russell Florence, "Banned from Baseball, Measure of a Man"

Playwright: Patricia O’Hara
Director: Margarett Perry

Cast:
Brian Dykstra (Pete Rose)
Doug MacKechnie (Bart Giamatti)
Scott Hunt (Fay Vincent)
Marc Moritz (Reuven Katz)
K.L. Storer (John Dowd)

*A copy of the playbill from this production is archived in The Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY.

Banned from Baseball stage reading: Playwrights Horizons, NY, NY. July 17, 2017

Playwright: Patricia O’Hara
Director: Margarett Perry

Cast:
Peter Scolari (Pete Rose)
Jason Kravits (Bart Giamatti)
Patrick Frederic (Fay Vincent)
Steve Vinovich (Reuven Katz)
Matt Lawler  (John Dowd)    
Bradford Cover (Robert Stachler)

 

Nonfiction

  • “The Best Goddamned Daughter in the World.” Epiphany, Spring/Summer 2012. Reprinted in Epiphany’s twenty-year anniversary anthology My Last White Boyfriend and Other Epiphanies
     Link to Article

  • “The Fight for Pete Rose’s Reinstatement is a Lesson in Growing Distrust of Institutions.” New York Daily News, August 25, 2017.
     Link to PDF 

  • “Dream Tracks.” The Common, April 2012. 
    Link to Article

  • “Island 1972.” The Southampton Review ( 2011).

  • “Long Story: Three Days, or Thirty-four and a Half Hours with Me and Robert McKee.” Barrelhouse Magazine (2008): 141-51.

  • “True Confessions.” Sports Literate, December 2008.

  • "Catechresis," Brevity, issue 23.
    Link to Article

  • “Some Questions to Consider.”  In Illness in The Academy, Purdue UP, 2006. 

  • "Stories from the Other Side of Silence.” Bellevue Literary Review, Spring 2005.

  • "Outfield." Central PA Magazine, August 2004.

  • Interview: Rebecca McClanahan. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, Spring 2004, pp. 91-103.

  • "Comprehending Tyler." Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. Online.

  • "Night Lines." Sycamore Review, 15, Winter/Spring 2003.

  • “Charity Means You Don't Pick and Choose." Newsweek, December 23, 2002: 12.  Op-ed.
    Link to Article

  • "Her Records." Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, December 2003.

 

Poetry and Fiction

  • “Posthumous.” Cimarron Review, No. 165 Fall 2008.
    Link to PDF 

  • “Nails.” ducts.org, Winter 2007. (short story)
    Link to Article

  • "High Tea at Thomas Hardy's House." Southampton Review, 1:1 (Summer/Autumn 2007): 1-3.

  • “Fall Back.” Cortland Review, December 2006.
    Link to Article

  • “Talking Board.” Alehouse Poetry Review, Fall 2006. Runner up in APR poetry contest. 

  • “Winter Laundry.” Harpur Palate, Summer 2006.
    Link to Article

  • “Ontology (at the Mütter Museum, College of Physicians, Philadelphia).”Southwest Review, Summer 2006.

Scholarly

 

  • Editor-in-chief.  Nineteenth Century Studies, Volumes 10-14 (1996-2000)
    Honorable Mention, Council of Editors of Learned Journals: Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement. 

  • "Knowing Hodge: Representing the Rural Labourer in the Late-Victorian Periodical Press."
    In  Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers. Eds. J. Codell and L. Brake. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. 2004.

  • "'The Woman of To-Day': The Fin de Siècle Women of The Music Hall and Theatre Review." Victorian Periodicals Review 30 (1997):141-52. 

  • "Narrating the Native: Victorian Anthropology and Hardy's The Return of the Native." Nineteenth Century Contexts. 20 (1997): 147-63. 

  • "'The Willow Pattern That We Knew': The Victorian Literature of Blue Willow." Victorian Studies 36 (1993): 421-442.

  • "Primitive Marriage, Civilized Marriage: Mythology, Anthropology and The Egoist," Victorian Literature and Culture, 20 (1993): 1-24.