Wendy Knickerbocker

Wendy Knickerbocker is a Maine native and an independent scholar with interests in American cultural history and American religious history. She is a retired academic librarian with over twenty years of experience as a cataloguer, reference librarian, and administrator. She holds a BA in American Studies from Colby College and a MS in Library & Information Science from Simmons College. Along with other activities and afflictions, she is a serious Red Sox fan.

Ms. Knickerbocker is the author of Sunday at the Ballpark: Billy Sunday's Professional Baseball Career, 1883-1890, and several articles on Billy Sunday. Her essay "The Baseball Evangelist Strikes Out John Barleycorn: Billy Sunday and Prohibition" is included in the book The Politics of Baseball, edited by Ron Briley, McFarland Publishers, 2010. Her most recent publication is Bard of the Bethel: The Life and Times of Boston's Father Taylor, 1793-1871, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.