CURRICULUM VITA

NAME:             JULES TYGIEL
 

ADDRESS: 65 Sequoia Way
                   San Francisco, CA
                   (415)585-4404                                      

 AFFILIATION AND TITLE:

                         Professor
                         Department of History
                         San Francisco State University
                         1600 Holloway Avenue
                         San Francisco, CA 94132
                         (415)338-1119, 338-1604
                          TYGIEL@SFSU.EDU
 

EDUCATION:  Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1977
                        M.A.  University of California, Los Angeles, 1973
                        B.A.  Brooklyn College, 1969  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
                        Professor of History, San Francisco State University, 1985-
                               present
                        National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Professor,
                               Albright College, 1998-1999
                        Associate Professor, San Francisco State University, 1982-1985
                        Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University,1978-1982
                        Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, 1977-1978
                        Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, 1976-77.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS:

 

 

 

Past Time: Baseball As History
       New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2000
       Nominated for Dave Moore Award for most important baseball             book of the year, Elysian Fields Quarterly, 2001
       Winner, Harold Seymour Award, Society for American
         Baseball Research (SABR), 2001
  
Baseball's Great Experiment
      Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 1984
      "Ambassador of Honor," Books-Across-The-Sea Program, 
        English-Speaking Union of the United States,
      1983 Best Book Lists, 1983: New York Times, Washington Post,
        Cleveland Plain Dealer; Philadelphia Inquirer, New York
        Daily News.
       Book of the Year Award Nomination, 1983 Spitball: literary
         baseball  magazine.   
       Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All-Time
        (Sports Illustrated, 2003)

Nominee, Wang Family Excellence Award, California State
       University, 2003
National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Professor,
        Albright  College, 1998-99
Professional Research and Development Award, San Francisco
        State, 1988   
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1980   Doctoral Dissertation Grant, U.S. Department  of Labor,
       Manpower Administration, 1976

 

KEYNOTE AND HONORS ADDRESSES

 

 

 

Keynote Address, History Day, California State University, Humboldt,
         March 5, 2005
Donovan Lecture, University of Arkansas, April 2, 2003
John R. Betts Lecture, North American Society for Sport History,
         Pennsylvania State University, May 23, 1999
Great Americans Address, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown,
         February 19, 1999
Davies Forum Fellow Address, University of San Francisco,
        November 2, 1998
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Speaker, Claremont McKenna
        College,  September 29, 1997
Keynote Speaker, Ninth Annual Cooperstown Symposium on
        Baseball  and American Culture, National Baseball Hall of
        Fame, June 11, 1997.
 Featured Speaker, Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the
        American  Dream conference, Long Island University, April
        3-5, 1997.
Phi Alpha Theta Lecturer, California State University, Stanislaus
        April,  1996
Keynote Speaker, Concordia University, Jackie Robinson 
        Symposium, May, 1996.
Keynote Speaker, Breaking Baseball’s Color Line: Jackie
        Robinson &  Fifty Years of Integration, Bethune Cookman
        College, Daytona Beach, March 15, 1996.
Keynote Address, NINE Conference, Phoenix Arizona March,
         1995
Valley Pioneer Lecture, California State University,
         Northridge,  November 12, 1995
Distinguished Visiting Professor, California State University,
         Chico, February, 1986

 

COURSES OFFERED

 

 

History of the United States Before 1865
History of the United States Since 1865
Twentieth Century United States History
History of the United States 1916-1945
History of Labor in the United States
Economic and Social History of the United States
The Great Depression
Century of Sports
History and Literature of Baseball
History of California
Computer Methodology for Historians
 Introduction to SPSS

SEMINARS TAUGHT:

 

 

 

Proseminar: The American Working Class
Proseminar: American Urban Politics
Proseminar: The Knights of Labor
Proseminar: San Francisco and Los Angeles 
Proseminar: California in the Great Depression
Proseminar: The San Francisco State Strike
Graduate Seminar: 1920s
Graduate Seminar: 1920s and 1930s

           

PUBLICATIONS

 

 

        Books

 

 

 

Ronald Reagan and the Rise of American Conservatism
        (Longman, Library of American Biography Series,
        2004).
Extra Bases: Explorations on Jackie Robinson, Race and    
         Baseball History (University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
Past Time: Baseball as History (Oxford University Press, 2000)
The Jackie Robinson Reader, editor (Dutton/Signet Publishers,
        1997)
The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks and Scandal in the
       Roaring   Twenties (Oxford Univer­sity Press, 1994);
       Paperback Edition,  University of California Press, 1996) Workingmen in San Francisco, 1880-1901 (Garland Press,
       1992)
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
       (Oxford University Press, 1983);  Paperback Edition, Vintage
      Books, 1984; Second Paperback Edition, Oxford University
      Press, 1993; Third Paperback  Edition with new Afterword,
      Oxford University Press, 1997).

 

 

        Book 
  Introductions		  
  "Foreword" Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the
     Story of African- American  Baseball (National Baseball Hall
     of Fame and Museum/National Geographic Society, 2006).
  "Introduction" Press Box Red: The Life of Lester Rodney
     (Temple University Press, 2003).
General Introduction and section introductions to Baseball
     As Culture (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum/
     National Geographic Society, 2002)--catalogue for
     National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum traveling exhibit.
Introduction to Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the
    1920s, William Deverell and Thomas Sitton, Editors  (University
     of California Press, 2001).
Introduction to Oil! by Upton Sinclair (University of California Press,
     1997).
Introduction to 1995 edition of Roy Campanella, It's Good To Be
    Alive. (University of Nebraska Press, 1995).
                                 

        Articles in Books and Scholarly Journals

 

 

 

"The Integration of Baseball in New York, 1947-57,"  forthcoming in companion volume to Museum of New York exhibition edited by John Thorn (February, 2007).
"Ronald Reagan and the Triumph of Conservatism" in What's Going On?
        (University of California Press, 2004)
“The Polo Grounds” in American Places: Encounters With History
         (Oxford University Press, 2000)
“Jackie Robinson Meets Ken Burns”: Journal of Sport History, 23
        (Spring, 1996)
“Henry Chadwick and the Invention of Baseball Statistics,” Nine, 
        4 (Spring, 1996), pp. 198-216.
"Blackball" in Total Baseball Encyclopedia, edited by John Thorn
        and Peter Palmer (Macmillan, 1989)
"Where Unionism Holds Undisputed Sway: A Reappraisal of the
        Union Labor Party of San Francisco," California History, LXII,   
        (Fall, 1983), pp. 195-215.
"Tramping Artisans: The Case of the Carpenters in Industrial
        America,"  Labor History, 22, (Summer, 1981), pp. 348-76.
"Housing in Late 19th Century America: Suggestions for Research,"
         Historical Methods Newsletter, 12, (Spring, 1979), 84-97.

 

      Articles in Newspapers,  Popular
and Non-Refereed
      Journals

 

 

 

"Revisiting Bill Veeck and the 1943 Phillies" Baseball Research
      Journal (2007)
"The Julian Petroleum Scandal," Los Angeles Times
      (December 3, 2006)
"Jackie Robinson: The Formative Years," Los Angeles Times
      (December  3, 2006)
"Integration in Oakland" Museum of California History Magazine,
       October/November, 1989
"The Signing of Jackie Robinson: The Untold Story," with John
        Thorn, Sport, (June, 1988).
"The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson," American Heritage,   
        (July/August, 1984).

 

        OPED Pieces  
 
"Democracy's Evil Twin," Los Angeles Times Opinion Section, Sunday, 
     (October 30, 2005).
"Chance summer encounter in Wisconsin foreshadows presidential
     election's outcome" California Faculty (December 2004).
"Is the Army Just for the Poor and Lower Class?" History News Network
     (October 13, 2004)
"The Rightwing Roots of Bush's Foreign Policy,"   History News Network
     (August 26, 2004).
"Would It Be Better for Democrats If the Protesters Stayed Home?"
    History News Network (August 23, 2004).
"Reagan's Vision Triumphed ... But Is His the World We Want to Live in?"
    History News Network (June 14, 2004).
"The Reagan Legacy - The decidedly contested success of
     Reaganomics" San Francisco Chronicle (June 13, 2004).
"Sports: Move Over Babe and Ty, Here Come Rickey and Barry,"
     History News Network (April 1, 2002).
“Changing Times Overshadow Bonds' Feat” New York Newsday,
    (October 1, 2001).
“Salaries Are Escalating, but They Don't Guarantee Winning,” Los
    Angeles Times Opinion Section, Sunday,  (December 17,  2000).

 

        Review Articles

 

 

 

"The Business of Baseball" Reviews in American  History
     (Spring, 1991).
"Baseball by the Book: Baseball History in the 1980s,” Baseball
    History  (Winter, 1986).
"The Negro Leagues Revisited" SABR Review of Books(1986). 
In Its Own Image by Benjamin Rader in  Reviews in American
     History (March, 1985).
"Pensions and Power" New Labor Review, (Fall, 1980), pp. 211-221.

 

        Reprinted Articles and Book Excerpts

 

 

 

Ronald Reagan and the Triumph of American Conservatism
                Chapter 10 "Legacy" Reprinted in Major Problems in
                American History Since 1945, edited by Robert Griffith et al
                      (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

Past Time: Baseball as History
               Chapter 7, “Baseball’s Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” 
                   Reprinted in Baseball and The American Dream,
                   edited by Robert Elias (M.E. Sharpe, 2001).                  
               Chapter 6, “Unreconciled Strivings” in The American Game: 
                   Race Ethnicity and Baseball, edited by Richard A.
                   Johnson and Larry Baldassaro, Southern Illinois University
                   Press, 2002.
               Chapter 6 in American Sports (Pearson Custom Publishing,
                   2002).

Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy,
                Sports Illustrated (June 20, 27 1983)
                The Private Side of American Life, edited by Thomas
                    Frazier (Harcourt, Brace, 1986) 
                The Armchair Book of Baseball, volume II, edited by
                    John Thorn (MacMillan, 1985) 
                Major Problems in American Sport History, edited by
                     Steve Riess (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
                The Jackie Robinson Reader, edited by Jules Tygiel
                     (Dutton/Signet, 1997)
                 A Dream Deferred (Simon and Schuster Custom     
                     Publishing, 2000).
                 Sports in Literature by Bruce Emra (NTC/Contemporary 
                     Publishing, 1999).
                 Jackie’s Nine, edited by Sharon Robinson (Scholastic
                     Trade, 2001).
                 Sociology of Sport by Texas A&M University (Pearson
                     Custom Publishing, 2002.
                 The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the
                    African American Experience in Sport by David K.
                    Wiggins, Patrick B. Miller (Routledge, January, 2004).
                 A Cardinals Reader by Steven Gietscher (University of
                     Illinois Press, 2005
                  

1997 Afterword to Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson
        and His Legacy:
                MSNBC Web
                The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and
                    American Culture : 1997 (MacFarland, 2000).
               

Introduction to The Jackie Robinson Reader,
                 American  Legacy, Spring, 1997;
                The Los Angeles Dodgers Yearbook, 1997;         
                Baseball History From Outside the Lines, edited by
                     John E. Dreifort (University of Nebraska Press,
                     2001).

"The Signing of Jackie Robinson: The Untold Story," with John Thorn.
                 Reprinted in extended form in the National Pastime             
                 (1990); Total Baseball (1993); Mark Alvarez, ed. The
                Perfect Game (1993); and The Jackie Robinson Reader
                (1997)

"The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson," reprinted in The Jackie   
                Robinson Reader (1997)

"Tramping Artisans: The Case of the Carpenters in Industrial
                America"  Reprinted in Eric Monkonnen, ed., Walking
               To Work: Tramps in America, 1790-1920 (University of
                Nebraska Press, 1984).

 

        Recent Book   
        Reviews

 

 

 

Dreaming Baseball by James T. Farrell (Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2007)
Taking on the Yankees by Henry Fetter (American Historical Review, June
         2006)
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 by Gerald Horne
         (Western Historical Review, 2003)
The Los Angeles River by Blake Gumprecht (Business History
         Review, Fall 2000)
Oil Baron of the Southwest by Martin R. Ansell (Pacific Historical
         Review, February 2000)
A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Longshore and Waterfront Strikes in
        San Francisco (Pacific Historical Review, 1997)
Endangered Dreams by Kevin Starr (Washington Post, February
        11, 1996)
Cobb by Al Stump in Washington Post (October, 1994)
Harry Hooper by Paul Zingg in Journal of American History (1994)
The Ku Klux Klan in the West, edited by Shawn Lay in Journal of    
          Interdisciplinary History (1994)
The Jersey Game by James M. DiClerico and Barry J. Pavelec in
          The International Journal of the History of Sport (1994)
The City Builders by Craig Wollner in Pacific Northwest Quarterly
          (1993).
A Legend for the Legendary by James A. Vlasich in Journal of
          American History (December, 1991)
The Home Run Heard Round The World by Ray Robinson in San        
          Francisco Chronicle (May, 1991)
Berkeley at War by William Rorabaugh in California History (1991).
The Business of Major League Baseball by Gerald Scully in San
      Francisco Chronicle (March, 1990).

 

RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED

 

 

 

""New Perspectives on the Flood Case" (Baseball Forever Conference,
        Frostburg State University, November 8-11, 2006)
Past Time: Baseball As History (Symposium at 2001 Meetings of
        the   Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles)
“Teaching United States History 1916-1945 Using Internet
        Resources” H-Net affiliated sessions at meetings of
        American Historical Association, Boston MA (January 2001)
“Populist Baseball” NINE Conference, Tucson, AZ (March 17, 
        2000)
"The Shot Heard 'Round the World" North American Society for
        Sport History,  Penn State University (May, 1999)
“The Julian Petroleum Scandal: True-Life Forerunner of the
        California Mystery Novel,” The Mystery Novel as Societal
        Mirror Conference, Sacramento CA  (December 6, 1995)
“Henry Chadwick and the Invention of Baseball Statistics,”
        Keynote Address, NINE Conference, Phoenix Arizona
        (March, 1995)
“Ken Burns Meets Jackie Robinson,” Meetings of the North 
         American Society of Sport History, Long Beach California
         (May, 1994)
"The Julian Petroleum Scandal," Meetings of the Organization of       American Historians, Anaheim, California (April, 1993).
"The Julian Petroleum Scandal" California History Workshop, 
         (October 24, 1991).
"Eight Men Out: Film and History" North American Society for
         Sport History, Clemson, South Carolina (May, 1989).
"'Widows and Orphans This Is No Investment for You':" Western History         
         Association, Los Angeles (October, 1988).

 

INVITED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS (See also Keynote and Honors Addresses)

 

 

  National

University of Utah, November, 1982
Oberlin College, April, 1984

St. Mary's College, March, 1986

California State University, Chico  February, 1987
University of Pennsylvania, President's Forum,  March, 1988
California Afro-American History Museum, October, 1988
California State University, Fullerton, April 23, 1990
Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore, Maryland) April 28, 1990
National Archives, Washington, D.C., July 7, 1994
NEH Seminar, Galveston College, October 19, 1994
The Bradley School, Sherman Oaks California, February 2, 1995
University of California, Santa Cruz  November 22, 1996
Modesto Rotary Club, January 21, 1997
Lake Forest College (Illinois) April 8, 1997
Loyola College, Chicago Illinois, April 8, 1997
Chicago Historical Society, April 8, 1997
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee  April 9, 1997
University of Massachusetts, May 8, 1997
Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, May 27, 1997
Long Beach Historical Society, September 29, 1997
Jackson State University, Mississippi, October 9, 1997
Sonoma State University, Writing on California Series, March 5,
      1998
University of Miami, (Florida) May 14, 1998
Prologue Club, Miami, May 15, 1998
Albright College, September 22, 1998
University of San Francisco, November 2, 1998
University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, February 19, 1999
Penn State University, March, 1999
Panelist, National Teleconference, “The Coloring of American
      Sport,” (February 25, 2000)
Wabash College (October 17-18, 2001)  
 University of Colorado (September 20, 2002)
Northern Colorado University (September 23, 2002)
Los Angeles Museum of Natural History (September 27, 2002)
Highland High School, Medina, Ohio (September 30, 2002) (telecast)
Los Angeles Museum of Natural History (November 9, 2002)
Martin Luther King Celebration, Sacramento Convention Center,
      (January 11, 2003)

University of Arkansas, (April 2, 2003)

"Brown v. Board of Education Plus Fifty Conference, "
      New York University (May 18, 2004)
 California State University, Humboldt (March 5, 2005)
 California State University, Sacramento (March 7, 2005)
Rancho Los Cerritos, Long Beach, CA (April 16, 2005)

Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD (November 11, 2006)
 Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (April 20, 2007)

SABR, Bobby Thompson Chapter, London England (June 16, 2007)

San Francisco
Area

 

Oakland Unified Schools (November, 1994)
University High School, San Francisco (March, 1995)  

San Francisco Towers Lecture Series (November 17, 1999)

Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo CA (March 27, 2000)
Word For Word, San Francisco (January 26, 2001)

San Francisco Public Library, Sunset Branch (October 7, 21, 28, 2002)
San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch (April, 2003)

San Francisco Public Library, Sunset Branch (November 3, 2003)

Word For Word, San Francisco (December 5, 2003)

Oakland High School, Teaching American History Grant
      Program, (January 27, 2004)

Beth Sholom Synagogue (February 15, 2004)
Berkeley City Club, (September 21, 2004).
San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch (March 30, 2006)
"Citizenship: The View From Baseball," San Francisco Unified School
              District (May 11, 2006)

Sixty Plus Beta Chapter (September 25, 2006)

San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch (April 3, 2007)
West Portal Books (April 11, 2007)
University High School (April 19, 2007)
San Francisco Public Library, China Basin Branch (May 19, 2007)

San Francisco Unified School District (June 5, 2007)

 

TELEVISION AND RADIO APPEARANCES

 

     National

 

 

Good Morning America  (July, 1983)
NBC Baseball  (April, 1987)
Sportstalk-USA (September, 1991)
Tech Nation...Americans and Technology, PBS, (August, 1994)
Talk of the Nation, March 27, 1997
Fresh Air, October 7, 2000
Talking History, May 21, 2001
Talking History, July 16, 2001
CNN Morning Show, April 2001

     Documentaries

 

 

The Way They Played the Game (KRON, San Francisco, 1994)
Jackie Robinson Special  (ESPN, April 18, 1997)
Jackie Robinson in Montreal
ESPN Sports Century (commentator in numerous documentaries 1999-2007)
Aimee Semple MacPherson Documentary (forthcoming)
The Young and the Dead, HBO 2000
Baseball’s All Century Team (Major League Baseball Productions, 1999)
Latinos in Baseball (Major League Baseball Productions, 2000)
Baseball by the Bay (KRON, Fall 2000)
The 1951 Playoffs (HBO-Black Canyon Productions, 2001)
Major League Baseball Productions (commentator in numerous documentaries 1999-2007)

       Other

Numerous radio and television shows throughout the nation.

 

 

 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

 

      Memberships

 

 

American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Southwest Labor Studies Association
North American Society for Sports History
California Historical Society
Society for American Baseball Research

     Committees

 

 

Merle Curti Book Award Committee, 1994-1995
      (Organization of American Historians)
National Baseball Hall of Fame Committee on Negro
       Leagues, 1993-94

    Editorial Boards

 

 

Publication Board, North American Society for Sport
        History, 1989-1993.
Editorial Board, Journal of Sport History, 1988-1996. Editorial Board, NINE: A Journal of Baseball Histo­ry and
       Social Policy Perspectives, 1993-present
H-Net, H-California  (1998-present)
H-Net, H1918-1945 (2000-2002)
Base Ball (2006-present)

 

     Advisory Boards   

San Francisco Labor Archives Golden Gate Bridge Project,1987
San Francisco Labor Archives, 1992-1998
San Francisco Public Library Historical Exhibits, 1995 Diamonds in the Rough:Japanese Americans and
      Baseball,1997
The California Gold Rush, KQED, Spring, 1998
Baseball in California, California Historical Society, 2002

 


 

SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY

 NON-TEACHING ACTIVITIES

 

     History Dept.

 

 

Chair, RTP 2003-2005
Hiring Committee, 1991-1993, 1995-1997, 2000-2004
Chair, Hiring Committee, 2000-2002
Chair, HRTP Committee, 1990-92
Internship Coordinator (1988-present)
Curriculum Committee, 1981-1985, 1995-present
HRTP Committee, 1983
Coordinator, Daughters of California Pioneers
      Competition,1981-82
Library Coordinator, 1979-1983

     School of  BSS   

 

 

BSS Student Research project, 1984-85 
Lottery Fund Committee (1987-88)
BSS Committee on Faculty Research (1991-1993)
BSS Computer Advisory Committee (1992-93)
Committee on Computing, Methodology and Technology
      (1995- present)
California Studies Search Committee, 1996

     University

 

 

Student-Faculty Committee on Disabled Students, 1980-81 Academic Senate, 1982-85
Faculty Affairs Committee, Academic Senate, 1982-1985 Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee, 1984-1985
Athletic Policies Committee, 1985
University Promotions Committee, 1999-2000
GE Segment II Committee, 2000-2002

     Other Campus
     Activities

 

 

“California in the 1930s,” The New Deal: 50 Years Later,
      1983 Faculty Seminar: "Writing and Publishing
       Baseball's Great Experiment," October 31, 1984 and January,
      1985 at Asilomar Conference
Coordinator and Speaker, Babe Ruth 100th Birthday,
      February 5, 1995
 The Internet for Labor Studies: A Workshop (February 24, 1995)
Coordinator and Moderator, Jackie Robinson 50th Anniversary
      Tribute May 10,1997
Friends of Library Lecture, October 29, 1997
Centenary Lecture Series, November 3, 1999
Moderator, California History Society and Culture panel,
      April 28,  2000
Coordinator and Participant, History Department World
      Events Forums: October 2001; February 2002; April, 2003;
Coordinator and Participant, Annual  September 11 Forums:  
      September 11, 2002; September 11, 2003; September 9, 2004;
     September 9, 2005; September 11, 2006.
Speaker, BSS 275: California: The Promise vs. The Reality in the
      2006 Election, September 6, 2006).