Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.

That's right, folks, who are once again listening to Baseball by the Book,

the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.

Today, author Steve Steinberg returns to the podcast to discuss a book he co-authored with Lyle Spatz.

It's called Comeback Pitchers, and we'll get to it in just a minute.

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

Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and the author and co-author of several

books, including Urban Shocker, Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age, which was a winner of the

Sabre Baseball Research Award. He previously appeared on the podcast to talk about that book.

Today he's here to discuss comeback pitchers,

the remarkable careers of Howard M. Key and Jack Quinn, which he co-authored with Lyle Spatz.

I'd like to thank Scott Verkovich for his help in putting this episode together. Let's get started.

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

Glad to be here, Justin. All right. So this book is kind of a dual biography of these two guys,

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