Pamela Grundy is an independent historian who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is the author of Learning to Win: Sports, Education and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina and, with Susan Shackelford, of Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball. She is also the editor, with Brad Austin, of Teaching US History Through Sports. Her work has received awards from, among others, the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the North American Society for Sport History.

Benjamin Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Nebraska - Lincoln. He is the author of Down on Mahans Creek: A History of an Ozarks Neighborhood (2017), When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes (2024), and Baseball: A History of America's Game (5th edition, 2025).