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Gary Gillette is a lifelong Tigers fan and the president of 24-7 Baseball, LLC. He is also a columnist for ESPN Insider and the coeditor of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia and ESPN Football Encyclopedia. He lives in Detroit. Pete Palmer is the coauthor of The Hidden Game of Baseball and coeditor of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia and ESPN Football Encyclopedia. He introduced on-base average as an official statistic for the American League and invented on-base plus slugging (OPS), now universally used as a good measure of batting strength. He lives in Hollis, New Hampshire.

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