Jim Reisler

They couldn’t hear the roar of the crowd—but the baseball world heard them loud and clear. Meet the deaf baseball stars who rewrote the rules.

The story of the fourteen men – largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book – who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 Oly...