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Eldon Ham

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Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Ham received his B. S. from the University of Illinois in 1974 and his J. D. from Chicago-Kent in 1976.

Biography: Eldon Ham has taught sports law at Chicago-Kent College of Law since 1994 and was one of the first lawyers to challenge the NFL’s drug policy in court (Richard Dent v. NFL, 1988). He is the sports legal analyst for WSCR sports radio in Chicago and has appeared on dozens of radio stations coast to coast as a sports lawyer, expert, and historian. He is also the author of ''The Playmasters: From Sellouts to Lockouts—An Unauthorized History of the NBA''; ''Larceny & Old Leather: The Mischievous Legacy of Major League Baseball''; and ''Broadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television''. He lives near Chicago.


Awards:
  • '''''Broadcasting Baseball'''''
  • -- Finalist, Book of the Year Awards, ForeWord Magazine , 2012 '''''All the Babe's Men'''''
  • -- Third Place Medal, National IPPY Book Awards, Sports Category, 2014

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: eldon@eldonham.com
Website: http://eldonham.com
Eldon Ham on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=eldon+ham


Selected Titles

All the Babe's men :
ISBN: 9781597979399 OCLC: 834136839

Potomac Books, Washington, D.C. : [2013]

Broadcasting baseball :
ISBN: 9780786446445 OCLC: 659753728

McFarland, Jefferson, N.C. : ©2011.

This work covers the development of the baseball broadcasting industry from the first telegraph reports, the influence of early pioneers at Pittsburgh's KDKA and Chicago's WGN, including the first World Series, the launch of the Telstar Satellite, the Carlton Fisk homerun in 1975 World Series, through New Millenium computer graphics, HD television, and the Internet--Provided by publisher.

  Larceny & old leather :
ISBN: 9780897338080 OCLC: 882259483

Every baseball player from little league to the big leagues knows it is illegal to steal signs, yet every major league team assigns someone to do just that. Baseball thrives on trickery and deception. But as our oldest major team sport, its larcenous legacy goes much deeper than the field of play. In LARCENY AND OLD LEATHER: THE MISCHIEVOUS LEGACY OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, Eldon Ham-sports lawyer, professor, and author-traces the game's lesser-known, roguish past. His wry chapters, filled with anecdotes and statistics, expose both the hidden and the obvious cheating occurring th.

The 100 greatest sports blunders of all time /
ISBN: 1570281599 OCLC: 37574115

Masters Press, Indianapolis, IN : 1997.

The playmasters :
ISBN: 0809226022 OCLC: 41712351

Contemporary Books, Lincolnwood, Ill. : ©2000.

 

 

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