MICHAEL TACKETT is an editor at the Washington Bureau for the New York Times. Previously, he was the managing editor for Bloomberg, the Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Tribune, and a National Editor for U.S. News & World Report. The Baseball Whisperer is his first book. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the corn fields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, a baseball whisperer who specialized in second chances and lost causes. The s... SEE MORE