Tim Newby
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Tim Newby is a writer and educator. He is the author of three books, The Original Louisville Slugger: The Life and Forgotten Times of Baseball Legend Pete Browning (U. Press of Kentucky, 2024), Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), and Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound & its Legacy (McFarland, 2015). The Original Louisville Slugger is a Finalist for the prestigious CASEY award, given to the book that provides the greatest contribution to baseball literature that year. In 2016 Bluegrass in Baltimore was awarded a Certificate of Merit from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections for excellence in Best Research in Recorded Country Music. In January 2017 it was named one of the thirty best books about bluegrass music by About Great Books. He has also contributed to the Phish Companion A Guide to the Band & Their Music (Backbeat Books, 2004), One-Win Wonders (SABR, 2024), and The 1964 Buffalo Bills: Profiles of the AFL Champions (McFarland, 2025). In 2023 Newby co-curated "Ola Belle Reed: I’ve Endured," an exhibition at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery on the campus of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The exhibition explored the life and work of nationally recognized bluegrass musician Ola Belle Reed and contextualized her achievements within a history of migration from rural Appalachia north in the twentieth century. Newby's work has appeared in a variety of publications including Bluegrass Unlimited, Paste, Relix, AmericanaUK, Inside Lacrosse, and Honest Tune. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and daughter.
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