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Authors: Zev Chafets
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“Judge me by my work”:
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“It all comes down to the Hall of Fame, really”:
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FILM
Baseball
,
10-disc DVD set. Directed by Ken Burns. PBS, 1994.
WEB SITES
National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum,
http://web.baseballhalloffame.org/index.jsp
Society for American Baseball Research, http://www.sabr.org/Statistics.com
The Business of Baseball, http://bob.sabrwebs.com
The Biz of Baseball, http://www.bizofbaseball.com
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
ZEV CHAFETS is the author of eleven books, including
A Match
Made in Heaven, Members of the Tribe
,
and
The Devil’s
Night
.
He is a frequent contributor to the
New York Times
Magazine
and other periodicals, a former columnist for the
New York Daily News
,
and the founding managing editor of
Jerusalem Report
.