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* Author interview: The Code’s Ross Bernstein

12 05 2008

From Seamheads.com, this extensive Q&A with the author of The Code: Baseball’s Unwritten Rules and It’s Ignore-at-Your-Own-Risk Code of Conduct

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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.

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