Goodreads asked J.B. Manheim:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

J.B. Manheim My series of baseball novels all trace to the same source, Antiques Roadshow. In 2018 I was watching a rerun of a 2003 program that included some papers from Camp Hancock in Georgia in WWI. The papers showed that several future HOF inductees were together in a unit training on chemical weapons. In the context of known WWI history and propaganda effort, this was clearly put together by the Army and Baseball as a "show" unit -- a propaganda exercise. Yet aside from these truly obscure papers, there is no mention of the unit anywhere -- news media of the day, player bios, baseball history. I took a closer look at the papers themselves, and that got me started on trying to explain how such a disconnect might be explained. The result was This Never Happened, and everything else has spun out from that part of the story. Where is fact, where is fiction? I try to let the reader decide.

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