Kasten, Ken Kovash, Jonathan Kraft, Keith Law, Randy Levine, Mickey Lichtman, Chris Long, Larry Lucchino, Rob Manfred, Chris Marinak, Trent McCotter, Daryl Morey, Dan Okrent, Dean Oliver, Pete Palmer, Chris Picardo, James Piette, John Ricco, Dan Rosenbaum, Dan Rosencheck, Ken Rosenthal, Steve Ross, Skip Sauer, Alan Schwarz, Mark Shapiro, Nate Silver, Mark Simon, Dave Smith, Stacey Solliday, Charles Steinberg, John Thorn, Tom Tippett, Tom Verducci, Earl Weaver, and Frank Westhoff. We are especially grateful to Jim Logue and Tom Tango, who provided careful comments on our entire manuscript.
More generally, we would like to thank all those in the sports industry who have unselfishly shared their time, expertise, anecdotes, and passion with us over the years.
We would also like to lovingly thank our families, Cory, Maggie, Don, Polly, Jeanne, Shelley, Alex, Ella, Jeff and Mike, for supporting us through our distractions and preoccupations while working on this project.
Mark Blake
Terry Brooks
John C. Dalglish
Addison Fox
Laurie Mackenzie
Kelli Maine
E.J. Robinson
Joy Nash
James Rouch
Vicki Lockwood