The Baseball Code - Gary L. Watts

Watts, Gary L.: - Gary L. Watts is Professor and Dean Emeritus of the University of Jamestown, Jamestown, ND, and an honorably retired minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He has a Ph.D. in philosophical theology and a M. Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary. He holds a B.A. in mathematics and English literature with honors in English from California State University, Northridge.He taught philosophy and theology for twenty-five years at the University of Jamestown, ND, where he also served for eleven years as Vice President/Dean for Academic Affairs. During that time he was awarded Professor of the Year, received a Templeton Foundation Award, and was Director of the Center for Character and Ethics. He also served on the Ethics Committee of the Jamestown State Hospital, as a Founding Board Member of the South-Central Educational Cooperative, and on the Advisory Board of the Education Doctorate Program at North Dakota State University.He is the author of a number of journal articles and of the book Painful Questions: Facing Struggles with Faith (Herald Press, 1999).Following retirement, Gary and his wife, Myra, moved to Spokane, Washington, where he worked for several years at his daughter's law firm researching, writing, and reviewing briefs; he also taught graduate and undergraduate courses in philosophy at Whitworth University. Gary and Myra have three grown children and four grandchildren who also live in Spokane.Gary is a lover of baseball. Like the narrator in The Baseball Code, at eight-years-old, he actually did win the trophy for Most Improved Player in the Apalachin, New York, Little League, and after moving to Los Angeles, he and his father did see Sandy Koufax throw his first no hitter.