Baseball historian

`Other historians are capable of charting the highest levels of the game through mid-century. It is less certain whether any other historian could summon up the depth of knowledge on the lower levels now preserved for future chroniclers by the publication of The People's Game. ...It has been suggested that he ... be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. It is hard to imagine a more suitable tribute from a history-conscious game to the man who has done most to preserve that history.'Huw Richards, Times Higher Education Supplement