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The interviews were made between 1962 and 1966.
The book was published in September 1966, following four years of research, interviews and preparation.
An enlarged edition was issued in 1984, with the additions of George Gibson, Babe Herman, Specs Toporcer, and Hank Greenberg.
A positive review by Wilfred Sheed in the New York Times Book Section helped propel the book, though it never hit the best seller list.
This book has been in print for most of the last 35 years, selling 360, 000 copies, with royalties of nearly a quarter million dollars.
Ritter presented royalties to the 22 men in the original book and their estates, and continued to write them checks into the mid-1980s.
Ritter himself earned less than $ 35, 000 on this classic.
Every player in the book, along with his wife, has since died.

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