On June 14, 2009 the New York Times published an article in their sports section titled "Author, Author - Did A.W. Tillinghast Really Design Bethpage Black" by Charles McGrath . The story compared the question of who designed this year's U.S. Open (golf) course to the authorship issue. The Shakespeare authorship issue has not only "seeped into the culture", as SOS President Matthew Cossolotto has said, it has become recognized enough for a sports reporter to use it as a metaphor for the question of whole really designed the U.S. Open golf course. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal . Today the New York Times . Tomorrow the world. ( Le Monde ?) In any event, the article cried out for a response, so here is the one I sent: To the Editor: Congratulations to the New York Times for putting Shakespeare where he belongs--on the sports page ("Author, Author," June 15). Golf, no less. Infact, there is evidence that Shakespeare was quite an athlete hims...
a Michigan group dedicated to the study of the works of William Shakespeare with particular interest in the authorship question