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Del Leonard Jones

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Del Leonard Jones wrote more than 300 cover stories at USA Today and received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for beat reporting. His 96-year-old father recites The Cremation of Sam McGee and The Shooting of Dan McGrew ballads from childhood memory.
Jones is married with two children. He officiates high school and collegiate sports in the Washington D.C. area.
Jones is available to speak on topics ranging from 1880s baseball, sports officiating, the Spanish-American War, the Klondike Gold Rush, the yellow journalism of the 1890s vs. today’s fake news.

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The Cremation of Sam McGee

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Advice From the Top: 1001 B...

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