Bob Carroll

Bob Carroll is the founder and executive director of the Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) and edits the group&'s newsletter, "The Coffin Corner". His many sports books include "Pro Football: When the Grass Was Real" and "Baseball Between the Lies", and he was a contributor to "Biographical Encyclopedia of American Sports: Football" (1988). Michael Gershman was editor-in-chief of Total Football Online for AT&T Interchange and wrote "Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark",...See more

Bob Carroll is the founder and executive director of the Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) and edits the group&'s newsletter, "The Coffin Corner". His many sports books include "Pro Football: When the Grass Was Real" and "Baseball Between the Lies", and he was a contributor to "Biographical Encyclopedia of American Sports: Football" (1988). Michael Gershman was editor-in-chief of Total Football Online for AT&T Interchange and wrote "Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark", winner of the Casey Award as "the best baseball book of 1993." A PFRA member, he is also a co-editor of "Total Baseball" and a founding partner in Total Sports. David Neft is a co-author of "The Sports Encyclopedia: Pro Football", which has appeared in 15 editions, and also co-wrote "The Scrapbook History of Pro Football." Neft served as editor-in-chief for the first edition of" The Baseball Encyclopedia" and is vice president of research for the Gannett Company, Inc. John Thorn edited "The Armchair Quarterback" and coauthored "The Hidden Game of Football" and "The Football Abstract" with Bob Carroll and Pete Palmer. A longtime member and past president of the PFRA, Thorn is also a co-editor of "Total Baseball" and a founding partner in Total Sports. See less