Check it out. Pretty pro, I would say.
It’s interesting he mentions the Black Sox chapter being long: we really struggled with the length of this one, and I ended up chopping a ton of stuff out of it to try as we worked to get the book under wordcount. I really wanted to talk more about Hal Chase, and some of the other connections, and the allegations in 1920 that the team was throwing games in part because they were being blackmailed over 1919, but the draft version so dominated the book that I had to trim it repeatedly.
Size, both in total and relatively, was a continual compromise. I wish I could have done a “complete” version that ran 200,000 words, where balance issues would work themselves out through exhaustive detail… but that’s turned out to be what the blog’s for: additions and expansions.
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