Baseball authors on the radio

According to a March 30 post on Publisher’s Weekly.com:

In honor of baseball’s opening day this Sunday (April 1), The Bob Edwards Show re-airs Bob’s conversation with Pulitzer winner David Maraniss about Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero, just out in paperback. PW’s starred review considered it a “respectful and dispassionate account. Maraniss deftly balances baseball and loftier concerns like racism; he presents a nuanced picture of a ballplayer more complicated than the encomiums would suggest, while still wholly deserving them.”

On The Leonard Lopate Show (March 30), Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield will hump his book Dropping the Ball: Baseball’s Troubles and How We Can and Must Solve Them. The show also features a segment on “Baseball Films from the SIlent Era, “a new two-disc collection of early (and in many cases, extremely rare) baseball films made between 1899 and 1926. Leonard talks to producer Jessica Rosner and Ben Model, who composed music for the package.

Listen to Wingate segment (audio requires Real Media Player)

Listen to Rosner segment

The NY Daily News‘ feature on Winfield’s book.

I’m not sure about the Edwards show, since it’s on XM Radio, but Lopate’s should be available as a podcast at some point shortly after it airs.

Actually, a visit to Edwards’ web site announces that he will be speaking with Alex Belth, author of Stepping Up: The Story of Curt Flood and His Fight for Baseball Players’ Rights, and makes no mention of the Clemente segment.