Field of Schemes

About the authors

A long-suffering Cleveland sports fan, Joanna Cagan (KAY-gan) has umpired little-league baseball, been denied access to the Syracuse lockerroom for postgame interviews, and judged a pageant for male cover models. After witnessing one too many sports swindles, Joanna Cagan is now recuperating as a teacher in New York City.

Neil deMause (de-MOSS) is a native New Yorker who has written for the Village Voice sports section, New York Newsday, SportsJones, the Guardian Newsweekly, and even a few publications that haven't since gone out of business. In addition to maintaining the Field of Schemes website, he is editor and publisher of the zine HERE: The Stories Behind Where You Are. He went to his first baseball game at the age of four, though it wasn't until age five that he learned to write "BB" for a walk instead of "W" on his scorecard.