Bob McGee

Bob McGee's latest book, "The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers," (Rivergate, 2005) won the 2005 Dave Moore Award, presented by Elysian Fields Quarterly, and won wide acclaim as a touching story about baseball, Brooklyn's unique sense of place, and the hold Ebbets Field continues to have on the American imagination.

As the late Yankees senior vice president Arthur Richman said shortly after the book's publication, "I've been in and around baseball for seventy years now, and this undoubtedly is one of the finest books I've ever read. For a moment I thought I was sitting in Ebbets Field and was ready to order a hot dog."

Bob also co-authored Bridges of Central Park, with Henry Hope Reed and Esther Mipass (Greensward, 1990), to help ensure adequate preservation of the world's greatest collection of miniature bridges.

His articles on sports or history have appeared in The New York Times, the Oakland Tribune, and in a number of magazines. He has lived in Maine, Ohio, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Westchester, where he currently resides with wife Maureen, and he's a native of Brooklyn, where he's always had a home.