Paul Hensler is a baseball historian and has been a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) for over thirty years. He is the author of three previous books, including The New Boys of Summer: Baseball’s Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Hensler has contributed to numerous SABR publications as well as articles and book reviews for NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. He has presented at the SABR national convention, the NINE Spring Training Conference, and the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. A lifelong resident of Connecticut, Paul and his wife live in the town of Ellington.