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"""Inspiring a deeper appreciation of many of the players about whom we thought we knew a lot, but find out in these pages that we still have much to learn.""--Perry Barber, Umpire, Jeopardy! champion, inaugural winner of The Dorothy, SABR's Women In Baseball Lifetime Achievement Award ""Mitchell's...assessments of the player are informed and perceptive...This is the essence of baseball."" --Greg Proops ""Essential reading for anyone who wishes to truly understand the relationship between America and its National Pastime."" --Craig Calcaterra, Cup of Coffee Baseball Newsletter and author of Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game ""Here is the intersectionality of baseball recognized and indispensably codified.""--Steven Goldman, Host of the Infinite Inning podcast and author of Baseball's Brief Lives ""Novel insights on the impact of baseball on American society. A fascinating and engaging read.""--Frank A. Guridy, Historian and author of The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics ""This is bound to become a baseball classic."" --Dr. Paul Semendinger, Author of From Compton to the Bronx, The Least Among Them, and Scattering the Ashes"

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Lincoln Mitchell is a professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. In addition to his books on topics ranging from foreign policy to the history of San Francisco to baseball, Lincoln's writing have appeared at CNN, NBC, the New York Times, San Francisco Examiner and numerous other publications.

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