Pete Palmer is the coauthor of The Hidden Game of Baseball and coeditor of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia and ESPN Football Encyclopedia. He introduced on-base average as an official statistic for the American League and invented on-base plus slugging (OPS), now universally used as a good measure of batting strength. He lives in Hollis, New Hampshire.
Gary Gillette is a lifelong Tigers fan and the president of 24-7 Baseball, LLC. He is also a columnist for "ESPN Insider" and the coeditor of the "ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia" and "ESPN Football Encyclopedia". He lives in Detroit.
Stuart Shea is the author of Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography. A former baseball columnist for Total Sports and America Online and coauthor of two editions of the USA Today Baseball Insider, he lives twenty-four blocks north of Wrigley Field.
Matthew Silverman is co-author of "Mets by the Numbers" (with John Springer), "Cubs by the Numbers" (with Al Yellon and Kasey Ignarski), "Red Sox by the Numbers" (with Bill Nowlin), and "Shea Goodbye" (with Keith Hernandez) and the author of "Mets Essential, 100 Things Mets Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die", and "Baseball Miscellany". He also served as the associate publisher at Total Sports Publishing, editing titles such as "Total Baseball" and "Total Football". He lives in High Falls, New York.
Matthew Silverman has been a professional writer and editor for over twenty years. He is the managing editor of the "ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia", an associate editor for the "ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia", and the author of "Mets Essential". He lives in High Falls, New York. Greg Spira is a writer, editor, and researcher. He co-edited the "USA Today Sports Weekly??'s Best Baseball Writing 2005" and is an associate editor for the "ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia" and "ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia". He lives in Kingston, New York.
