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Thomas W. Gilbert

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Thomas W. Gilbert looks at baseball history in a fresh new way. This is what Earl Weaver biographer John W. Miller said about my latest book, Death in the Strike Zone: The Mystery of America's First Baseball Hero: "[Tom] has invented a brilliant new kind of baseball book, a mystery biography that’s a history of an incandescent American folk hero, a masterful study of the physics of pitching, and a survey of the wild, weird 19th century. Because Gilbert is an expert on still-relevant topics like gambling, pitching mechanics, and baseball economics, Death is the Strike Zone is endlessly enlightening. Creighton died young, but I’ve never read anything about 19th century baseball that’s so alive.”

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WHY ISN'T JAMES CREIGHTON IN THE HALL OF FAME?

My book, Death in the Strike Zone: The Mystery of America’s first Baseball Hero, tackles the many unanswered questions about James Creighton, baseball’s first nationally famous ballplayer. Why he has no plaque in Cooperstown is one of them.

Once considered the greatest pitcher ever, Creighton is largely forgotten today. This, however, may well be more a result than a cause of his absence from the

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