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A book for baseball history buffs receives a stellar, 4.5 out of 5 stars. -- New York Post David Sadzin narrates with an interested tone and an emotional emphasis that fits the subject...Sadzin's delivery gives dignity to Bell and never overshadows the amazing Hall of Famer. Without trying to imitate anyone, Sadzin helps paint a picture of a great ballplayer decades ago. -- AudioFile To white baseball fans in his day, Cool Papa Bell was an invisible man at an invisible time. The virtual embodiment of the Negro Leagues, he is honored by Lonnie Wheeler's last, great biography--the portrait of a man and an age only now beginning to be seen by us all. -- John Thorn, official historian of Major League Baseball Wheeler's bio of Cool Papa Bell reads like fiction. That's a tribute to Bell's achievements, which are worthy of legend, and to Wheeler's spellbinding writing and extraordinary ability to sift fact from myth. -- Larry Tye, New York Times bestselling author of Satchel

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"Lonnie Wheeler (1952-2020) was the author of numerous books including collaborations on the autobiographies of Hank Aaron (I Had A Hammer) and Bob Gibson (Stranger to the Game), and a baseball dialogue between Gibson and Reggie Jackson (Sixty Feet, Six Inches). When he was seven, David Sadzin's first grade teacher gave him a paragraph to read out loud. She interrupted him halfway to proclaim him the ""Ringmaster"" in his class's musical extravaganza about the circus. He's been using his voice to get out of trouble ever since. After a few intense years on New York's stages, performing traditional and experimental theater, improv, and sketch comedy, he's now settled comfortably in front of the mic in his home studio in Brooklyn."

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