{"id":7284,"date":"2014-02-04T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T15:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=7284"},"modified":"2014-02-04T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T15:27:54","slug":"dr-gerald-c-jerry-wood-66-wins-seymour-medal-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2014\/02\/04\/dr-gerald-c-jerry-wood-66-wins-seymour-medal-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Gerald C. \u201cJerry\u201d Wood \u201966 wins Seymour Medal Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jerry Wood \u201966<\/strong> is Distinguished Professor of English <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/02\/Gerald-Wood.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7286\" title=\"Gerald Wood\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/02\/Gerald-Wood-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/02\/Gerald-Wood-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/02\/Gerald-Wood.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a>Emeritus at Carson-Newman College in Tennessee.\u00a0 During his years as a college teacher, he wrote primarily about theater and film.\u00a0 However, his recently published book about baseball player Smoky Joe Wood\u00a0has been\u00a0selected as the <a href=\"http:\/\/sabr.org\/latest\/smoky-joe-wood-biography-wins-2014-seymour-medal\">2014 Seymour Medal Award<\/a> winner for best book of baseball history or biography (in the baseball community this is a very significant award, per baseball guru Wabash Rhetoric Professor Todd McDorman).\u00a0 Jerry will receive the Seymour Award at the banquet of the 21st annual NINE Spring Training Conference in Tempe, Arizona on March 15.\u00a0 Jerry\u2019s other books have covered topics such as modern dramatists, Irish writers, and the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>He was featured in a past issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/magazine\/1999\/FallWinter\/answers\/gerald_wood.htm\"><em>Wabash Magazine<\/em>, Lessons Learned<\/a> :\u00a0 Q:\u00a0 <em>Personally, what is the most meaningful life lesson you have taken from your vocation or avocation?\u00a0 <\/em>A:\u00a0 &#8220;In my junior year at Wabash, I chose to major in English. . . . . &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Jerry!<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for the news tip, Todd!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Amazon.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Wood \u201966 is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Carson-Newman College in Tennessee.\u00a0 During his years as a college teacher, he wrote primarily about theater and film.\u00a0 However, his recently published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}