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A 2013 CASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the Year and a Booklist Top Ten Sports Book of the Year When baseball swept America in the years after the Civil War, independent, semipro, and municipal leagues sprouted up everywhere. With civic pride on the line, rivalries were fierce and teams often signed ringers to play alongside the town dentist, insurance salesman, and teen prodigy. In drought-stricken Bismarck, North Dakota during the Great Depression, one of the most improbable teams in the history of baseball was assembled by one of the sports most unlikely champions. A decade before Jackie Robinson broke into the Major Leagues, car dealer Neil Churchill signed the best players he could find, regardless of race, and fielded an integrated squad that took on all comers in spectacular fashion.
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Tom Dunkel has written about sports, politics, adventure travel, and many other topics for The Washington Post Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic Traveler, and other publications. He was a contributing editor at George (John Kennedy Jr.'s magazine of politics and culture) and a feature writer at The Baltimore Sun. Color Blind is his first book. He is currently writing a nonfiction book about some members of the German resistance during World War II, scheduled for publication in early 2021. That project is being funded in part by a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities grant. Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. has been home for many years. For more information, please visit www.tomdunkel.com
