Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McIre.

And this is baseball by the book.

That's right, folks, you are listening to the 301st episode of The Only Podcast That Matters.

Today, author Jim Leak joins us to talk about his new book called The Best Team Over There,

The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland, Alexander and The Great War.

We'll get to that in just a minute.

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All right, let's get on to today's episode.

Jim Leak is an author of several books, including From the Duggets to the Trenches, Baseball during the Great War. He was on the

podcast a few years ago to talk about that book. Today he returns to talk about the best team over

there, the untold story of Grover, Cleveland, Alexander, and the Great

War. Let's get started.

Hi, Jim, welcome back to baseball by the book.

Thanks for having me again.

So let's talk about Grover, Cleveland, Alexander before World War I. We're going to get into a lot of detail

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