Author interview: Tom Oliphant

<p>I met <a href=”http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-oliphant-thomas.asp”><span style=”color: #3f848a;”>Tom Oliphant </span></a>during at a discussion of his book, <em>Praying for Gil <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=170,height=144,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/oliphant_1.jpg”><img title=”Oliphant_1″ height=”84″ alt=”Oliphant_1″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/oliphant_1.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=170,height=144,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/oliphant.jpg”></a><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=358,height=475,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/mr_met.jpg”></a>Hodges</em>, held at the Yogi Berra Museum in Montclair. I find it surprising that people with a reputation as intellects, such as George Will and the late Stephen Jay Gould, will &quot;waste&quot; their time wriring about baseball.</p>

<p>This interview appeared on Bookreporter.com.</p>