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Gary
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Gillette
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ggillette@hiddengamesports.com
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I am a baseball author, editor, and historian and the foremost expert on the history of the Detroit Stars and the Negro Leagues in Detroit. I have written or contributed to many baseball books and Websites, including ESPN.com and Baseball Prospectus. I was the creator and editor-in-chief of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia and the executive editor of the ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia as well as a contributor to the landmark encyclopedia Total Baseball.
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Profile in The Athletic about my campaign to save Hamtramck Stadium, one of the few remaining major Negro League home ballparks in the country.
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I was the editor and also a contributor to Stuart Shea's book Calling the Game, the definitive history of baseball team broadcasts from the 1920s to 2015. I am now collaborating with Shea on updating the book.
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Biography I wrote for Detroit's Willie Hernandez for the Society for American Baseball Research
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