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John Helyar (born 1951
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. He is married to ''The Wall Street Journal''’s Betsy Morris. Helyar has worked for ''
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'', Fortune magazine, ESPN.com,
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and
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. He is the author of the 1994 book, ''Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball''. His reporting with Bryan Burrough on RJR Nabisco earned them the 1989 Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline and/or Beat Writing. They turned their research into the book '' Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco'', which was made into an HBO Emmy award-winning a film of the same title.


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