| There are many friends, coaches, colleagues, family, storytellers, typists, research aides, umpires, and many others who have given of their time, interest, expertise, stories, and suggestions to complete a baseball text of this type and complexity. A complete listing of every contributor would be virtually impossible. |
| To all of those who contributed in any way toward the completion of this volume, the author extends a hearty "Thank you." |
| First and foremost, thanks go to Pam Crosson and Cecille Watkins, typists, whose excellent work in preparing the chapters of the original manuscript was difficult and time-consuming. |
| Chief contributors to Chapters 3 and 4 were two excellent baseball men from the city of San Bernardino, California. Coach Jim McGarry spent more than a month in assisting the author in formulating, organizing, and checking Chapter 3. Chief Umpire Charlie Lewis, a premier baseball umpire from the Inland Empire assisted the author in formulating, organizing, and checking Chapter 4. |
| The field diagrams found in the text were done by John Evanko, commercial artist for the Altoona, Pennsylvania, school district. The quality of his work and his understanding of the complex points in the game of baseball are remarkable. |
| So many baseball coaches, at all levels of the game, contributed. The University of Arizona's head coach, Jerry Kindall, himself a great teacher and author of several volumes, deserves many thanks for his interest in this text on baseball signs. Some parts of his book Baseball are found in several chapters. |
| Thanks to Coach John Monger, formerly from the Chino High School district, Don Lugo High School, for his story contribution, "The Grand Slam Triple Play." |
| Thanks so much, Claude Anderson, former sportswriter for the San Bernardino Sun, for his interest and support to the author and his texts on baseball since 1981. |
| Without the sketches and explanations in Chapter 2, "Offensive Plays and Signs," used with permission of the Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, Illinois, this vital portion of the book would have been most difficult to do using only portions of the author's first book, done in 1988, High Percentage Baserunning. |
| Parts of the baseball texts The Art and Science of Aggressive Baserunning, by Coach Cliff Petrak, Brother Rice High School, Chicago, Illinois; and Baseball, Signs and Signals, by Coach Tom Petroff, University of Iowa, were used with the author's permission. |
| The author extends his sincere thanks to dear Ella Kennedy Penny, retired English teacher, Liberal High School, Liberal, Kansas, who encouraged the author, in that sophomore class |
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