About the Author

Richard Bak is the author of more than twenty-five books, including A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium (Wayne State University Press, 1998), Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit (Wayne State University Press, 1991), and Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 (Wayne State University Press, 1995).