A People's History of Baseball

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks to everybody at the University of Illinois Press who shepherded A People’s History of Baseball to daylight: my editor Bill Regier, senior editor Tad Ringo, and everyone else who went above and beyond to make my book the best it could be. I would also like to thank the two anonymous readers, whose invaluable comments and thoughtful suggestions improved the book immensely, widening its scope and intensifying its depth such that would have been impossible without them. I likewise owe a debt of gratitude to my colleagues at the Society for American Baseball Research, particularly those on the SABR listserv, who provided guidance and a seemingly bottomless well of knowledge in response to my varied queries. To my wife Joanne, thank you for patiently allowing me to prattle on and on at the dinner table as I was working through the book. And to the late Howard Zinn, whose work inspired this book, thank you for demonstrating to anyone willing to listen that the received wisdom is hardly the only wisdom. ...