Averell "Ace" Smith

Averell “Ace” Smith is a political consultant and lifelong baseball fanatic. He is a thirty-year veteran of state and national politics and has directed winning campaigns from district attorney to president of the United States. He has been profiled in the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Smith spent over a decade researching this book including travelling to the Dominican Republic. He lives in Kentfield, California with his wife Laura Talmus.