WPeter C. Bjarkman was an American historian, freelance author, and commentator on the baseball played in Cuba after the 1959 Communist revolution. He provided regular internet commentary on Cuban League baseball as a contributing writer for LaVidaBaseball.com and as Senior Writer for the U.S.-based internet website BaseballdeCuba.com and appeared frequently on radio and television sports talk shows as an observer and analyst of the Cuban national sport. He also published more than three dozen books ranging in scope from Major League Baseball history and college and professional basketball history to sports biographies for young adult readers. In spring 2017 Bjarkman was honored with a SABR Henry Chadwick Award, the society's highest research recognition established in 2009, "to honor baseball's great researchers – historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists – for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America's present with its past".
WJohn Frederick Christgau was an American author of fiction and non-fiction.
WCarl Diem was a German sports administrator, and as Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympic Games, the chief organizer of the 1936 Olympic Summer Games.
WDr. John Milton Hoberman is a Professor of Germanic languages within the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books and articles on sports, specifically on their cultural impact, their relationship with race, and the issue of doping.
WKlaus Huhn was a German sports journalist, writer and sports administrator. Huhn worked for the East German mass-market daily newspaper, Neues Deutschland, and was chairman of the Sports Journalists Sub-Association within that country's important Union of Journalists.
WThe Rev. John Kerr FRSE LLD (1852-1920) was a Scottish minister, sportsman and sports author. He has been titled the Sporting Padre. His sporting repertoire included golf, curling, and skating.
WBruce Kidd, is a Canadian academic, author, and athlete.
WVolker Kluge is a German sports journalist and former sports official in East Germany.
WAlexey Valeryevich Kylasov is a Russian cultural anthropologist, Ethnosport theory author.
WSulev Oll is an Estonian journalist, sports historian and poet. He has worked for Postimees, a major Estonian newspaper. and is mentioned in the Estonian national biography. As a journalist and writer he is noted for his expertise in Estonian athletic history.
WJames Oyedeji, nicknamed Uncle Bode or Uncle Bodey, was a Ghanaian sports historian, who was also the Chief Executive of the Tudu Mighty Jets.
WPeter Frank Radford is a former British athlete, who competed at 100 and 200 metres, broke world records, and won Olympic medals, despite having been seriously ill as a child due to a hole in his kidney.
WJohn A. Thorn is a German-born sports historian, author, publisher, and cultural commentator. Since March 1, 2011, he has been the Official Baseball Historian for Major League Baseball.
WTerry Todd was an American powerlifter, and Olympic weightlifter. Todd was co-founder of the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports, co-editor of Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture, and creator and event director of the Arnold Strongman Classic.
WBogdan Romuald Tuszyński was a Polish sports journalist, reporter and historian. He was best known for his sports report Studio S-13 of the Polskie Radio, beginning in 1970. Born in Łódź, he began his career as an editor of Przegląd Sportowy (1951–1952), before moving to Polskie Radio in 1953, departing from the radio broadcaster in 1981. He also reported on the Peace Race annually. He published approximately thirty books between 1975 and 2009.