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JB Manheim is Professor Emeritus at The George Washington University, where he developed the world's first degree-granting program in political communication and was later founding director of the School of Media & Public Affairs. In 1995 he was named Professor of the Year for the District of Columbia.

He learned his love of baseball collecting splinters in Little League, watching Dizzy Dean on the Game of the Week, and huddling with his grandfather for warmth on July nights at The Mistake By The Lake, AKA, Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

Manheim applies his expertise in politics and the ways of Washington and his understanding of baseball behind the scenes to provide a new perspective on the game through both fiction and nonfiction.

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Your website says you're changing publishers. Who are you going to and how can we obtain the other books in the series? I loved "This Never Happened."

J.B. Manheim Thanks very much for your question. I'm delighted that you enjoyed This Never Happened.

The three original books plus one new one are well along in the…moreThanks very much for your question. I'm delighted that you enjoyed This Never Happened.

The three original books plus one new one are well along in the production process, and will be published within a few weeks, either together or in rapid succession, by Sunbury Press. They will be available from the Press itself, but also from all of the usual sources -- Amazon, B&N, etc.

The book you read was originally written as a one-off project, but when I found myself writing two more with ties to This Never Happened, my then-publisher and I decided to present the three together as The Cooperstown Trilogy. Now that there is a fourth book in press (and a fifth in progress), all of which are contemporary mystery-thrillers with roots in events of early baseball and various characters in common, we will be reframing the series as The Deadball Files.

I will make a note to let you know when the books are available. I hope you enjoy the rest as much as the first.

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J.B. Manheim This Never Happened was initially written as a stand-alone book, but during the lockdowns I ended up writing two sequels -- The GameKeepers: Whitewash…moreThis Never Happened was initially written as a stand-alone book, but during the lockdowns I ended up writing two sequels -- The GameKeepers: Whitewash, Blackmail and Doubleday Doubletake -- that will both be published by Summer Game Books in April 2022. Together, the books will be presented as The Cooperstown Trilogy, as all three have important scenes set in the symbolic home of baseball. All three take events from the Deadball Era as the starting point for contemporary-era mysteries and quests. Writer Adam Wallace, who first emerges as a character in This Never Happened, is more fully introduced in The GameKeepers, which also brings on the scene an evil villain who schemes to control The Game.

Nearing completion is a fourth book, also rooted in the Deadball Era, but with a new contemporary protagonist, a young lawyer who.... Oops! Almost gave it away!

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	The House Divided: The Story of the First Congressional Baseball Game 4.84 avg rating — 25 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Never Happened: The Mystery Behind the Death of Christy Mathewson 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Federal Case (The Deadball Files #4) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Keystone Corner: Thomas Edison Turns Two (The Deadball Files Book 5) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The GameKeepers (Cooperstown Trilogy #2) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doubleday Doubletake (Cooperstown Trilogy #3) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Field of Schemes (The Deadball Files #6) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's In Ted's Wallet?: The Newly Revealed T206 Baseball Card Collection of Thomas Edison's Youngest Son by J.B. Manheim (Goodreads Author), Lawrence Knorr (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doubleday Doubletake: One Ball, Three Strikes, One Man Out (The Deadball Files Book 3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gamekeepers: Whitewash, Blackmail, and Baseball’s Darkest Secrets (The Deadball Files Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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