The author of Baseball’s Outcast joins the boys to talk about deciding to write the story of prison inmate-turned-Major League All-Star Ron LeFlore after first discovering him in his grade school library nearly four decades prior, the difference between telling the story of a living subject versus a dead one, actually meeting Ron LeFlore, shares the legacy of Frank Wills and introduces the world to Napolun Birdsong.
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ADAM'S BOOKS:
- Baseball's Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore
- Watergate's Forgotten Hero: Frank Wills, Night Watchman
- Baseball Under Seige: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor's Battle to Integrate Spring Training
- Alex Haley's Roots: An Author's Odyssey
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