Roughly a year after the formation of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, membership had reached a point where it was necessary to create individual chapters within the group. Each member of the BBA was placed within the chapter that best represented the general focus of the blog. Volunteers within each chapter have stepped into leadership roles to help facilitate communication, assist with the various voting periods we conduct, and to help recognize the work of those members within.
The names and sites for each of our current Chapter Presidents, as well as brief bios, may be found by selecting any of links under this menu.
In addition to creating the Chapter President positions, expansions to the overall BBA Leadership were later proposed and subsequently two additional positions were created in an effort to help facilitate communication, promote the members within the BBA, and assist Daniel in running the group as a whole. At the behest of numerous members, we felt it would be appropriate to recognize those individuals here as well.
BBA Founder & President, Daniel Shoptaw
Daniel Shoptaw is way too obsessed with this baseball thing. Besides his own blog, C70 At The Bat, he also is the founder of the United Cardinal Bloggers as well as the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. He can be heard on Gateway To Baseball Heaven and the UCB Radio Hour with regularity. He also has his own podcast, Conversations With C70, where he talks to bloggers and others about the game. His wardrobe is 85% Cardinal red. When he’s not wearing one of these many hats, he’s a CPA in Arkansas with a wonderfully patient wife and a son and a daughter that both already boo the Cubs.
Vice President, Aaron Somers
Baseball has always been paramount in the life of Aaron Somers, and that passion continues today. Aaron has been writing and operating his own blog, Blogging From The Bleachers, since early May 2010 and has been a member of the BBA since shortly thereafter. Prior to taking on this current position within the BBA, he proudly served as the General Chapter President from August 2010 until September 2011.
In addition to maintaining BFTB, Aaron has also contributed to Seamheads.com (June 2010 to June 2011) and has served as Co-Editor for Baseball Reflections (since May 2011). He also recently (October 2011) took over District on Deck, the Washington Nationals home at the FanSided Network as the new Editor & Lead Writer.
Aaron has long considered himself a baseball fan first, a Yankee fan second. He makes his home just outside of Boston with his fiance Angela.
Membership Secretary, Max Gallner
Max Gallner is a lifetime Philadelphia Phillies fan, born in New Jersey, and has been writing about them off and on since July 2009, although it still feels like just yesterday. With a couple fellow Phillies fans met on Twitter, he started Fire Eric Bruntlett, dedicated to complaining about a mediocre at best utility player having a full-time bench role with the team. Naturally, less than one month after starting this blog, Bruntlett turned the most amazing play any of us had ever seen, a game-ending, unassisted triple play. After a hiatus during the 2010-2011 offseason, Fire Eric Bruntlett started back up again, albeit under the name of “New” Fire Eric Bruntlett, due to domain issues, and without its other two original writers. Despite his best intentions, Max has only been able to write periodically, but has big plans this offseason going into the 2012 season. He currently resides in sunny South Florida, looking for the best way – or any way, really – to turn this baseball-writing thing into a career of the slightest profit. He’s not sure why he still wants Eric Bruntlett to be fired from whatever he’s doing now (I’m guessing fisherman/lumberjack somewhere in the northern U.S./Canada) but has been unable to think of any better blog names. E-mail him at fireericbruntlett@gmail.com if you have any suggestions. If it’s good enough, you might get a card signed by Bruntlett, but why the hell would anyone want that even as a prize?
