How to Speak Baseball

James Charlton is the author or editor of more than three dozen books. He splits his time between New York City and Connecticut.Sally Cook is a New York Times bestselling author of sports-related titles. She lives in New York City.Ross MacDonald is an illustrator whose work has appeared in international publications. He lives in Connecticut.

Ross Macdonald was a pseudonym for Kenneth Millar (1915–1983), an author of detective fiction best known for creating the character of Lew Archer, a California PI. Born in California, Millar lived in Ontario, Canada, until his father abandoned his mother, uprooting the family and forcing them to move again and again over the next few years—a formative experience that would often be echoed in Millar’s work. While attending the University of Michigan, Millar began writing pulp fiction, publishing his first novel, The Dark Tunnel, in 1944.