As much as I love listening to interview with authors, it gets to a point where they’re pretty much the same. I don’t know whether that’s a function of publicists sending out “talking points,” ostensibly to make the hosts’ jobs easier.
I don’t know if the interviewers actually read all the stuff they get in preparation. I don’t know how they can, given the number of guests they have to get through each week. I can afford to be a big shot in that I only do one interview a week at best. So I always try to read the book to form my questions. The biggest compliment I think an interviewer can get is when the guests says, “That’s a good question,” or “I never thought of that before.” Anything to make them think.
All this said, here are a few audio interviews from recent episodes of the NPR weekly sports program Only a Game:
- Was Baseball Great Ty Cobb Really A Racist? New Biography Says No, with Charles Leerhsen
- Molina’ Remembers A Father Who Raised Three World Series Champs
- ‘League Of Outsider Baseball’ And The Sino-Japanese War, with Gary Cieradkowski
- Baseball’s Flawed Genius’ Chronicles Billy Martin’s Unpredictable Life, with Bill Pennington
- Former Dodgers First Baseman Gil Hodges Lived ‘A Hall Of Fame Life’, with Mort Zachter
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