University of Pittsburgh historian Rob Ruck teaches and writes about sport, focusing on how people use sport to tell a collective story about who they are to the world. His books include Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh (1987), The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic (1991), Rooney: A Sporting Life (2010), Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game (2011), and Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL. (2018). His documentaries, Kings on the Hill: Baseball’s Forgotten Men (1993) and The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game (2006), appeared on PBS and NBC. http://robruck.com