About The Author 

Tom E. Mahl holds a doctorate in diplomatic history from Kent State University.  His first two books, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-1949 and Espionage's Most Wanted, were both well received.  His award-winning work has appeared in more than 50 publications from Popular Mechanics to Friends of Wine.  In The Spitball/Knuckleball Book, he turns to a lifelong interest in baseball.  Here he has found a wonderful excuse to spend four years reading about baseball, interviewing baseball players, going to Spring Training, rummaging through the archives of the Baseball Hall of Fame and the public and private baseball collections of a continent. 

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