Jim Kaplan

Jim Kaplan is the author of 19 books, including 13 on baseball as well as "Historic America: New England," "Lefty Grove: American Original," and "Golden Years of Baseball." He graduated from Yale University and earned a master's from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. After three years of covering sports for the "Minneapolis Star," he spent 16 years at "Sports Illustrated" then turned to freelance writing. He divides his time between Northampton and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. Greg...See more

Jim Kaplan is the author of 19 books, including 13 on baseball as well as "Historic America: New England," "Lefty Grove: American Original," and "Golden Years of Baseball." He graduated from Yale University and earned a master's from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. After three years of covering sports for the "Minneapolis Star," he spent 16 years at "Sports Illustrated" then turned to freelance writing. He divides his time between Northampton and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. Greg Spahn is the only child of Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn and this is his first book. He lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. See less