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Baseball.
3 vols. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983.
    Wallop, Douglass.
Baseball: An Informal History
. New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.
    Warfield, Don.
The Roaring Redhead: Larry MacPhail, Baseball’s Great Innovator.
South Bend, IN: Diamond, 1987.
    Westcott, Rich.
Mickey Vernon: The Gentleman First Baseman
. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2005.
    White, Solomon.
Sol White’s Official Base Ball Guide.
Philadelphia, 1907. Reprint: Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1984.
    Whitford, David. “Veeck Family Values.”
Fortune Small Business
, July 1, 2003.
    Wiggins, David. “Wendell Smith, the
Pittsburgh Courier-Journal
and the Campaign to Include Blacks in Organized Baseball, 1933–1945.”
Journal of Sport History
10, no. 2 (1989): 5–29.
    Wilber, Cynthia J.
For the Love of the Game: Baseball Memories from the Men Who Were There
. New York: William Morrow, 1992.
    Wiley, George.
Especially for Cleveland Fans: The 1948 Indians Remembered
. Minneapolis: Society for American Baseball Research, 1988.
    Williams, Pat, with Michael Weinreb.
Marketing Your Dreams: Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck.
Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 2000.
    Wolfe, Rich, and George Castle.
I Remember Harry Caray
. Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 1998.
    Woodward, Stanley.
Sports Page
. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968.
    Yardley, Jonathan. “The Man Who Brought Joy to Mudville.”
Washington Post
, September 25, 2006.
    Yoder, Robert M., and James S. Kearns. “Boy Magnate.”
Saturday Evening Post
, August 28, 1943.
    Zang, David W.
Fleet Walker’s Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball’s First Black Major Leaguer
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
    Zimbalist, Andrew.
Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime
. New York: Basic, 1994.
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In the Best Interests of Baseball: The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig
. New York: Wiley, 2006.
    Zimmerman, G. “Veeck … A New Bill for the White Sox,”
Look
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    Zoltak, James. “Legendary Promoter Veeck Shares Tips at Stadium Managers Meet.”
Amusement Business
111, no. 7 (February 15, 1999).

Image Credits
    Bill Veeck Collection/The Baseball Reliquary: 4, 5, 7, 12, 15, 22, 41
    Cleveland State University Library,
The Cleveland Press
Collection: 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 26, 38.
    Family photos, courtesy of Fred Krehbiel: 1, 2, 3, 6, 32, 40
    Jim Hansen, photographer,
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Magazine Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, used with permission of Mrs. James T. Hansen: 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36
    Museum of Modern Art, Film Still Archives: 23
    National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, New York: 20, 25
    National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, New York,
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photo collection, photographs by Bob Sandberg: 8, 9, 10, 11
    Robert Lerner, photographer,
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Magazine Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, used with the permission of Mr. Lerner: 24
    Paul Tenpenny collection, 13
    Washington Star
Collection, Washingtoniana Division, Martin Luther King Library, Washington D.C. Public Library: 37, 39.

A Note on the Author
    Paul Dickson is the author of several classic baseball books, including
The Dickson Baseball Dictionary
,
The Unwritten Rules of Baseball
,
The Hidden Language of Baseball
,
Baseball: The Presidents’ Game
, and
The Joy of Keeping Score
. He is also the author of the seminal narrative history
Sputnik: The Shock of the Century
, and the coauthor of the acclaimed
The Bonus Army: An American Epic
. He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland.

RECENT BOOKS BY PAUL DICKSON
    Sputnik: The Shock of the Century
(2001)
    The Hidden Language of Baseball
(2003)
    The Bonus Army: An American Epic
(with Thomas B. Allen) (2005)
Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms
(2006)
    Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe
(2007)
Family Words: A Dictionary of the Secret