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Terry W. Sloope served as the Magnolia Chapter's Chairperson for over 10 years. He lives in Cartersville, Georgia and works at Kennesaw State University. He was the Chairperson for SABR40, the national convention held in Atlanta in August 2010. He is currently involved in biographical projects on the late major league slugger Rudy York, and William V. "Jumbo" Barrett, a minor league catcher from the 1920s. Terry was a contributing author to Gary Land's Growing Up With Baseball and David L. Porter's Latino and African American Athletes Today: A Biographical Dictionary. He recently finished a biographical profile of his boyhood hero, Bob Gibson, for a pending book on the 1964 Cardinals. He also authored the entry for Rudy York in The New Georgia Encyclopedia, an electronic compendium of Georgia history and culture. Email Terry