Smithsonian

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1. National Geographic

   Author of National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States, We Americans, Secret Corners of the World

2. Smithsonian

   Author of The Official Guide to the Smithsonian, The Smithsonian Experience, Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

3. William B. Mead

   Author of Low and outside (World of baseball), Explosive Sixties World of Baseball

4. Nicholas A. Basbanes

   Author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, Patience & Fortitude, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

5. Charles William Eliot

   Author of Folklore and Fable: Aesop; Grimm; Andersen, The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of solitude [by] William Penn, Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

6. Bonnie Young

   Author of A Walk Through the Cloisters

7. Kevin Kerrane

   Author of The Hurlers: Pitching Power and Precsision (World of Baseball)

8. Jim Reisler

   Author of Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Runyon on Baseball

9. Pam Postema

   Author of You've Got to Have Balls to Make It in This League: My Life As an Umpire

10. Patricia Schultz

    Author of Places to See Before You Die, 1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die

11. Alexis Doster III

    Author of The Smithsonian Book of Invention

12. Reader's Digest

    Author of Reader's Digest Fix-It-Yourself Manual, American Folklore and Legend, Family Handyman: Helpful Hints

13. Gene Carney

    Author of Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded

14. James Mote

    Author of Everything Baseball

15. John Gall

    Author of Sayonara Home Run!: The Art of the Japanese Baseball Card

16. Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Author of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide

17. C. D. B. Bryan

    Author of The National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery, The National Air and Space Museum

18. Fay Vincent

    Author of The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine

19. Joel Zoss

    Author of Diamonds in the Rough: The Untold History of Baseball

20. George Plimpton

    Author of Home Run (Harvest Original)