First off, the author had to know about the past to write about the past. To do this Richard Panchyk interviewed old former players, players children, player's teammates, managers, or even roommates of legends. Richard Panchyk interviewed more than 500 people just to write this one book. This required lots of work and couldn’t write a book on it’s own. He had to use a key resource called research. …show more content…
Furthermore, learn more about players careers, stats. Teams they played for and all that stuff. How else would he know that Barry Bonds won 7 MVP awards and that Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson were the first selected into the Hall of