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""Baseball resists change, but Ford Frick forced it--and Dave Bohmer shows how. From Jackie Robinson to expansion to the players' draft, Frick shaped the game. This is the definitive case for baseball's most overlooked power broker.""--Will Carroll, baseball journalist and author of The Juice and The Science of Baseball ""Dave Bohmer's biography offers a revised view of the prevailing negative one on Ford Frick's baseball leadership. This heavily researched and well-written volume covers Frick's role in many mid-twentieth-century changes to the game and the creation of the Hall of Fame.""--Ed Edmunds, baseball scholar and professor emeritus of law at Notre Dame Law School ""My Major League career overlapped with Ford Frick's last seven years as commissioner, even serving as a players' rep. Dave Bohmer's book made me realize how little I knew about Frick's impact on the game. I recommend it to any fan.""--Jay Hook, former pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets

""Baseball resists change, but Ford Frick forced it—and Dave Bohmer shows how. From Jackie Robinson to expansion to the players' draft, Frick shaped the game. This is the definitive case for baseball's most overlooked power broker.""—Will Carroll, baseball journalist and author of The Juice and The Science of Baseball ""Dave Bohmer's biography offers a revised view of the prevailing negative one on Ford Frick's baseball leadership. This heavily researched and well-written volume covers Frick's role in many mid-twentieth-century changes to the game and the creation of the Hall of Fame.""—Ed Edmunds, baseball scholar and professor emeritus of law at Notre Dame Law School ""My Major League career overlapped with Ford Frick's last seven years as commissioner, even serving as a players' rep. Dave Bohmer's book made me realize how little I knew about Frick's impact on the game. I recommend it to any fan.""—Jay Hook, former pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets

""Ford Frick: Baseball's Third Commissioner and His Four Decades Shaping the Game is a genuine gem of biographical interpretation of Frick's baseball work life.""—bevisbaseballresearch.wordpress.com ""Baseball resists change, but Ford Frick forced it—and Dave Bohmer shows how. From Jackie Robinson to expansion to the players' draft, Frick shaped the game. This is the definitive case for baseball's most overlooked power broker.""—Will Carroll, baseball journalist and author of The Juice and The Science of Baseball ""Dave Bohmer's biography offers a revised view of the prevailing negative one on Ford Frick's baseball leadership. This heavily researched and well-written volume covers Frick's role in many mid-twentieth-century changes to the game and the creation of the Hall of Fame.""—Ed Edmunds, baseball scholar and professor emeritus of law at Notre Dame Law School ""My Major League career overlapped with Ford Frick's last seven years as commissioner, even serving as a players' rep. Dave Bohmer's book made me realize how little I knew about Frick's impact on the game. I recommend it to any fan.""—Jay Hook, former pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets

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Dave Bohmer is director emeritus of the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media and Media Fellows Program at DePauw University.

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