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About John Klima

Baseball author John Klima's new book, WILLIE'S BOYS: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend, about teenager Willie Mays's remarkable rookie season among a group of savvy veterans at the twilight of the Negro Leagues, will be published by John Wiley and Sons in Spring, 2009.

His story, Deal of the Century, was chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss to appear in the 2007 edition of Best American Sportswriting.

Klima has also written for Yahoo! Sports and MLB.com, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Daily News and several other publications.

He is member of the Baseball Writers Association of America and the Society of American Baseball Research.

Klima has also been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Los Angeles Press Club.

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