After working for fifteen years as a lobbyist at the state capitol in Hartford, Connecticut, Martin C. Babicz returned to graduate school to earn his Ph.D. in history. His dissertation examined politics in colonial Connecticut during the Seven Years’ War (French & Indian War) and Stamp Act crisis. Although Dr. Babicz teaches courses on all aspects and periods of U.S. history in Stories and Societies RAP, in other RAPs, and for the History department, “America through Baseball” has become his signature course. In working at CU, Dr. Babicz discovered that teaching first-year college students, especially in a RAP, is the best job he's ever had. Dr. Babicz is the co-author (along with CU professor Thomas W. Zeiler) of National Pastime: U.S. History through Baseball (2017). He also wrote a chapter exploring the historiography of sports and pastimes of the 1920s in A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover (2014).