Rob Ruck

Rob Ruck teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Author of Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh and The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic, he made the Emmy Award-winning documentary Kings on the Hill: Baseball's Forgotten Men . He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Maggie Patterson, his coauthor for Rooney: A Sporting Life .

Rob Ruck teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Author of Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh and The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic, he made the Emmy Award-winning documentary Kings on the Hill: Baseball's Forgotten Men . He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Maggie Patterson, his coauthor for Rooney: A Sporting Life . See less