Cooperstown Confidential (24 page)

165
“Judge me by my work”:
Joe Mathews, “Mitchell Drawn to Thorny Issues,”
Los Angeles Times,
December 15, 2007.

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“It all comes down to the Hall of Fame, really”:
Ben Walker, “Clemens for the Hall? Mitchell Report Throws That in Doubt,” Associated Press, December 15, 2007, http:// www.boston.com/ sports/baseball/ articles/ 2007/ 12/15/clemens _in_the _hall _it _may _be _in _doubt/.

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Today’s American players are about an inch and a half taller:
Jonah Keri, ed.,
Baseball Between the Numbers
, p. xxiii.

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FILM

Baseball
,
10-disc DVD set. Directed by Ken Burns. PBS, 1994.

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National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum,
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Society for American Baseball Research, http://www.sabr.org/Statistics.com

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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
.