The Bookshelf Conversation: Austin Stahl

May 21, 2019

In this digital age, deciding to bring forth an actual print publication takes some cajones. Baseball magazines have come and gone. Back when I was growing up, there were a slew of them. Gone are such classics as The Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review. And does anyone out there remember Dugout: Baseball Beyond the Boxscore or Baseball Quarterly? Nowadays, the only two of which I’m aware are Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture and Spitball Magazine.

That’s why it was a thrill to receive a copy of the premiere issue of Road Grays: The Magazine for Curious Baseball Fans, the brainchild of Austin Stahl and his wife, Megan Deyo Stahl. It’s a nice collection of words and pictures that somehow seems to have more gravitas since it strikes me as a more permanent medium, one which requires more thought about what to include in its valuable “real estate” of the page as opposed to the ephemeral online world.

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Here’s hoping Road Grays enjoys more success than its ancestors and here’s my conversation with Austin Stahl.

 

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