With a background as a competing weightlifter and later as a weightlifting coach, Ted's initial intention was to write about the unfairness caused by the use of illegal strength-enhancing drugs in baseball. However, while researching, he found a substantial number of unfair situations in the game that give left handed hitters a tremendous advantage over righthanders - and this book was born. Ted Frank lives in Belleville, Illinois, only seven miles from the Gateway Arch on the riverfront in St.Louis, Missouri.