Ralph L. Andreano was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on April 11, 1929, and educated at Drury College in Springfield, Illinois (BA, 1952), Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (BA, 1955), and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (Ph.D., 1960). He was a member of the faculty of Northwestern University (1959-1960), Harvard University (1961 July-1962 June), and Earlham College (1961 January-June; 1962-1965). He was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin in June of 1965.
Andreano has engaged in a broad spectrum of scholarly activities in the field of economics. He has published numerous books, articles, and reviews, edited various collections of scholarly writings, founded The Journal of Entrepreneurial History, Second Series (1965--), and served as a consultant to various agencies, corporations, and groups. Because of the views argued in his No Joy in Mudville: The Dilemma of Major League Baseball (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965), and in several articles on the economics of baseball, Andreano was called as an expert witness to testify to the monopoly status of organized baseball in the 1966 antitrust action brought by the State of Wisconsin against the Milwaukee Braves as part of an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the team from moving to Atlanta, Georgia.
