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Dave Winfield is a Hall-of-Fame baseball player and World Series champion. He played 22 major league seasons, 17 of them in San Diego and New York. A 12-time All-Star, he was among the first professional athletes to start a charitable foundation. The David M. Winfield Foundation, launched in 1977, provided health care, holiday meals, and educational scholarships to underprivileged families. Dave was also a key figure in the development of one of the strongest and most successful labor unions in the country and world, the Major League Baseball Players Association. A two-sport collegiate athlete, Big Ten champion, and an All-American baseball player, he is the only athlete to ever be drafted by four professional sports leagues: MLB, the NBA, the ABA, and the NFL. Following his major league career, he spent more than a decade as an executive in professional baseball and six years in media with FOX Sports and ESPN. He is an acclaimed speaker and the author of a 1988 autobiography and a 2008 book about how to revitalize baseball. He’s been married for more than 30 years, has three children, and lives in Los Angeles.

Alan Maimon is the author of Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning and six sports books. As a reporter with the Louisville Courier-Journal, he was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for a series about gaping holes in Kentucky’s justice system. His work for the Las Vegas Review-Journal on police shootings and the court system garnered national awards and acclaim. He started his professional writing career as a news assistant and reporter in the Berlin bureau of The New York Times. Alan is a Philadelphia native and graduate of Brown University, where he received a Fulbright fellowship to study and work in Austria.

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