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Text Credits
VEECK AS IN WRECK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BILL VEECK, by Bill Veeck with Ed Linn. Courtesy of University of Chicago Press.
NICE GUYS FINISH LAST, by Leo Durocher with Ed Linn. Courtesy of University of Chicago Press.
MR. WRIGLEY’S BALL CLUB: CHICAGO AND THE CUBS DURING THE JAZZ AGE, by Roberts Ehrgott. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. Courtesy of University of Nebraska Press.
TAKE TIME FOR PARADISE: AMERICANS AND THEIR GAMES, by A. Bartlett Giamatti. Copyright © A. Bartlett Giamatti, March 15, 2011, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
WRIGLEYVILLE: A MAGICAL HISTORY TOUR OF THE CHICAGO CUBS. Copyright © 1996 by Peter Golenbock. Reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press. All rights reserved.
SCORECASTING: THE HIDDEN INFLUENCES BEHIND HOW SPORTS ARE PLAYED AND GAMES ARE WON, by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim. Excerpt from SCORECASTING: THE HIDDEN INFLUENCES BEHIND HOW SPORTS ARE PLAYED AND GAMES ARE WON by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim, copyright © 2011 by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim. Used by permission of Crown Archetype, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
THE BIG BAM: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BABE RUTH, by Leigh Montville. Excerpt from THE BIG BAM: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BABE RUTH by Leigh Montville, copyright © 2006 by Leigh Montville. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
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About the Author
GEORGE F. WILL is one of the most widely read writers in the world, with his twice-weekly syndicated column appearing in more than five hundred newspapers and online news sources. He is a Fox News contributor and the author of thirteen books, including Men at Work, With a Happy Eye But …, Bunts, The Woven Figure, and One Man’s Am
erica. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and the Bradley Prize for outstanding intellectual achievement, he lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.