Throughout his boyhood on an Ohio farm, Doug Branson consumed baseball through the radio, which transmitted the blissful sounds of the Cleveland Indians winning the 1948 World Series, something no farm boy, space girl, or other life form has ever heard or seen through any medium since.
He still checks the American League standings, Professor Douglas M. Branson does in his office in the University of Pittsburgh’s law library, reveling in his beloved Tribe’s extended stay in first place this summer, now stretching past 60 days. Naturally, Branson’s life has long since evolved toward more serious pursuits, specifically four-plus decades of teaching and writing his 19 books, most of them fairly weighty, unless your idea of beach reading might include such titles as “No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom,” or “The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in American Public Companies.