Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. I knew Roy was sick, and I suppose there’s a certain appropriateness—given how much of his life he lived on the Web--that I learned about his death from a friend’s email, but the news was still shocking, and brought me to a stop like no other I could have imagined. I would never claim to have been close to Roy, in the sense that I may not even have been one of those 1,542 electronic business cards Deborah mentioned in her remarks at Roy’s memorial celebration. But like many of you on this site, you never had a conversation with Roy without feeling close to him, and I think I can say this too: since I first met him while working on the Radical History Review more than 30 years ago, I never had a conversation with him when I didn’t feel better afterwards than I did before. It’s not only that he was the funniest academic I’ve ever known, or that he communicated such warmth so effortlessly. It’s that he, personally and professionally, embodied the idea that we historians, and particularly radical historians, had the right and obligation to hope: for a more just and decent profession, country, and world. Without Roy, many of us would have been far more tempted to make our careers into efforts to document just how bad things have been in the past, and how, very likely, they could even get worse. Roy’s book “Eight Hours for What We Will,” even though it charts a kind of declension in working-class leisure, opened a different kind of door for many of us: the idea that we could look at leisure and play as serious, even respectable areas of research. In my own case, I think I can say that without Roy, I could not even have considered, much less written, my first book, about the history of early baseball. When it was just a completed dissertation (and I was out of academia), and one of my advisors thought it might make a useful article someplace, and a couple of series editors had dismissed it—Roy ended up an anonymous reader for Cornell Press. Here’s what I wrote 20 years ago in the preface. Roy Rosenzweig's thorough Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 144 Title A name given to the resource A Tribute to Roy Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. Your submission of material constitutes your permission for, and consent to, its dissemination and use in connection with Thanks, Roy in all media in perpetuity. If you have so indicated on the form, your material will be published on Thanks, Roy (with or without your name, depending on what you have indicated). Otherwise, your response will only be available to approved researchers using Thanks, Roy. The material you submit must have been created by you, wholly original, and shall not be copied from or based, in whole or in part, upon any other photographic, literary, or other material, except to the extent that such material is in the public domain. Further, submitted material must not violate any confidentiality, privacy, security or other laws. By submitting material to Thanks, Roy you release, discharge, and agree to hold harmless Thanks, Roy and persons acting under its permission or authority, including a public library or archive to which the collection might be donated for purposes of long-term preservation, from any claims or liability arising out the Thanks, Roy's use of the material, including, without limitation, claims for violation of privacy, defamation, or misrepresentation. Thanks, Roy has no obligation to use your material. You will be sent via email a copy of your contribution to Thanks, Roy. We cannot return any material you submit to us so be sure to keep a copy. Thanks, Roy will not share your email address or any other information with commercial vendors. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Warren Goldstein Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Warren Goldstein Type The nature or genre of the resource detailed appreciatively critical reading of my manuscript remains the finest piece of criticism I have ever received on any written work. I still don't quite know how he does it. I hope that the final product meets the expectations of his comments."