Interesting Facts About Judith Blau

While looking through the list of awards and honors Dr. Blau has received, the most unlikely for her field of study is becoming a lifetime honorary member of the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995. Without further investigation one might think this honor has no relevancy to sociology; however, while sifting through numerous amounts of articles she has published, I stumbled upon one that was written the year before the honor was given entitled “Organizing the Boys of Summer: The Evolution of U.S. Minor-League Baseball, 1883-1990” and thought there might possibly be a connection between the two. After asking Dr. Blau about this she confirmed my suspicion saying that the honor was given after the article was donated to the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame for archiving data on minor-league baseball. One thing that I find particularly interesting is that Dr. Blau has co-edited a book called Public Sociologies Reader that is the bookstore of Thammasat University in Thailand.

Resources:

Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf