Stephen Wong, a lifelong collector of rare and historically significant artifacts, spent two and a half years researching his top-selling adult book smithsonian baseball: Inside the World's Finest Private Collections. Wong has advised a number of the world's top collectors and is currently lending his expertise to an upcoming exhibition at the Chicago Historical Society celebrating the glory days of Chicago Cubs and White Sox baseball in the early twentieth century. He is also an advisory director for the Museum of the City of New York's summer 2007 exhibit "The Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947-1957" and an honorary committee member for the city of Pittsfield and the Berkshire Museum's "1791--Art of the Game--Pittsfield," a two-year celebration of Pittsfield's unique place in baseball history. A graduate of Stanford Law School, Wong is currently an executive director at Goldman Sachs. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and now lives in Hong Kong.
"A godsend for baseball geeks everywhere." -- Booklist Starred Review"...a magnificent album of baseball mementos--by turns, beautiful, peculiar and hilarious." -- Sports Illustrated
"...a magnificent album of baseball mementos--by turns, beautiful,
peculiar and hilarious."--Sports Illustrated
"A godsend for baseball geeks everywhere."--Booklist Starred Review
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