National Pastime Radio: Leonard Lopate and The Entitled

It might be a bit of an unfair advantage since he already has a regular gig on Morning Edition, but Frank Deford, is getting a fair bit of mileage out of his association with NPR. In addtion discussing his latest novel, The Entitled (Sourcebooks), on the July 11 Morning Edition program, he appeared as a guest on the Leonard Lopate Show on Aug. 1 (the same day as Joe Posnanski, author of The Soul of the Game).

Deford is a six-time National Sportswriter of the Year, senior writer for Sports Illustrated, and correspondent for HBO’s RealSports with Bryant Gumble, has appeared on a few programs, in addition to his own commentary. He has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters and has been awarded both an Emmy and a Peabody.

Deford discussed his new novel as part of the Authors@Google series at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. on June 26.

Read an excerpt from The Entitled, courtesy (Denver) Examiner.com.

Listen to the Lopate segment:

Other baseball titles by Deford include:

The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball (Atlantic Monthly Press, hardcover, 2005; Grove Press, paperback, 2006)
Casey on the Loose (Viking, 1989; his only other novel)