Bruce Markusen is a Senior Researcher for the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library. He is the author of Baseball's Last Dynasty: The Oakland A's and directed a multimedia presentation entitled The Legacy of Roberto Clemente on August 15, 1998 to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Clemente's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.Maia Wojciechowska (1927-2002) was born in Warsaw and attended school in Poland, France, and England before coming to America in 1942. She worked as an undercover detective, a motorcycle racer, a translator for Radio Free Europe, and a bullghter before turning to writing. She won the Newbery Medal for her book Shadow of a Bull in 1965.