Charles (Chip) F. Rouse III has worked for over 40 years in and with the news media. A journalist by training and a graduate of the University of Kansas, Rouse has worked as a senior corporate communications executive. as editor-in-chief of a national trade magazine for the motion picture industry, as a daily newpaper reporter and in radio and TV. His real passion, however, is sports journalism. A Greater Kansas City native, Rouse has avidly followed and written about sports since his teenage years, when he covered high school sports and wrote a sports column for one of the suburban weekly newspapers. He is currently writing a book on major league baseball stadiums.