Richard Crepeau

Dr. Richard Crepeau
(Dick)

• High School De La Salle High School (Minneapolis)
• School University of Minnesota
• Born in Minneapolis, MN USA

Biographical Information

Once thought to be on the short list of possible successors of Bud Selig as Commissioner of Baseball, Dr. Richard Crepeau is a member of the H-Arete editorial board and Professor of History and Chair of the Department at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL.

His interests in sport history have been primarily in baseball, intercollegiate athletics and the business of sport. Crepeau is the author of Baseball: America's Diamond Mind, 1919-1941; Melbourne Village: The First Twenty-Five Years; and several articles and reviews in Aethlon, Nine, Journal Of Sport History, Journal Of Sport and Social Issues, The Canadian Journal Of Sport History, as well as a number of non-sport pieces in The Orlando Sentinel and other newspapers. Americas's Diamond Mind is an exploration of the relationship between America's Democracy and its National Pastime, baseball.

Sport Literature is an avocation and a passion for him. He has been doing his radio commentary on WUCF-FM for over five years, and started doing it when he became Department Chair as a form of weekly therapy. He is also a long-standing member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). As with many in Arete he came to the organization through Lyle Olsen whom he saw play for the St. Paul Saints as a child growing up in Minneapolis, MN. Lyle too was a child playing professional baseball.

When Bud Selig finally announced that he was ready to step down after the 2014 season, what was initially an interim gig as Commissioner having turned into a 20-year reign, Crepeau's was no longer among the names bandied around as possible successors.

Publications and transcripts

• Baseball: America's Diamond Mind, 1919-1941
• Melbourne Village: The First Twenty-Five Years
• The Sports Song of Patriotism
• Commercialism and hype in professional sports(6/21/96)
• Changes in sports for children(7/5/96)
• Bowe-Golata fight, NBA salaries, and Kirby Puckett(7/18/96)
• Olympics and corporate sponsorship(7/26/96)
• 1996 summer Olympics(7/29/96)
• Shaq leaves Orlando(8/9/96)
• Women in the Olympics(8/16/96)
• Baseball's Owners and Tin Cup(8/22/96)
• Tiger Woods(8/30/96)
• UCF moves to Division 1A, Jerry Richardson dies(9/9/96)
• A rich September for sports(9/13/96)
• Hockey World Championships(9/20/96)
• College football's police blotter(9/27/96)
• [1] End of the baseball season(10/04/96)
• Baseball Managers(10/11/96)
• LCS melodramas(10/18/96)
• The World Series(10/25/96)
• The World Series, II(11/01/96)
• Gambling in College Sports(11/08/96)
• Gambling in Boxing(11/15/96)
• Nick Anderson's troubles(11/22/96)
• Thanksgiving Football(11/27/96)
• Baseball's Labor Agreement(12/6/96)
• Pete Rozelle(12/13/96)
• Holiday gifts(12/20/96)
• Bowl Games(12/27/96)
• 1996 in Review(1/3/97)
• NFL Playoffs(1/10/97)
• Abuse of Sheldon Kennedy(1/17/97)
• Super Bowl Commercials(1/24/97)
• Green Bay Packers(1/31/97)
• Dennis Rodman(2/7/97)
• Crepeau for Commissioner(2/14/97)
• Links to nonbaseball transcripts

Quotes

"The 1930s also saw an effort to apply the principles of business to baseball, especially in the area of advertising and promotional techniques. The first major breakthrough came in 1933 with the institution of the All-Star Game." - Richard Crepeau in Baseball: America's Diamond Mind (1980)