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Joe and Jack Heffron have been Reds fans all of their lives. Jack has written about the team for Cincinnati magazine, winning two American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) awards for sports writing. He has edited numerous books on baseball for several publishers. He also is the author of three books on writing and has ghostwritten a number of other books ranging in subject from history to marketing to sports. His writing has been published in many magazines and has won numerous awards, including being named in Best American Travel Writing. He works at a marketing agency in Cincinnati and teaches in the Department of Journalism at the University of Cincinnati. Joe worked as a local umpire for many years and attended the Bill Kinnamon Umpire School in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of the game and of the Reds. He works at Bankhardt’s Luggage and Gifts. Both Joe and Jack are members of the Society of American Baseball Researchers, and they live in Cincinnati.