Discipline: Literature

David Nemec

Discipline: Literature
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1980
David Nemec is an American baseball historian, novelist, and playwright. Nemec has received The Sporting News Research Award, the McFarland Baseball Research Award, playwriting grants from The Impossible Ragtime Theater and the Huntington Playhouse, fellowships in creative writing and numerous residency fellowships at the Corporation of Yaddo, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Edward Albee Foundation. He has taught writing at the College of Marin, St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, and prisons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nemec is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research) and a recipient of a lifetime Henry Chadwick Award, which was established in 2009 to honor baseball's greatest researchers. Among his most recent baseball books are, Major League Baseball Profiles: 1871-1900, vols. 1 & 2; The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball, a trilogy of biographies of every 19th century player, major owner, manager, league official, and regular umpire; and Forfeits and Successfully Protested Major League Games: A Complete Record 1871-2013.

Studios

New Jersey

David Nemec worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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