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Allan Barra

A matter of interpretation: Publishers’ publicity departments praising their authors

October 8, 2010 · 2 comments

So yesterday I wrote about Jane Leavy’s new book on Mickey Mantle, published by Harper Collins, which got the “excerpt treatment” from Sports Illustrated. Since I have yet to get my copy, I started looking around to see if there were other excerpts available. I eventually found my way to Leavy’s page on the Harper […]

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* Yogi Berra: a man for all Times

May 3, 2009

The Sunday book section also featured this review of Allan Barra’s Berra book (I never get tired of writing that), by Jonathan Mahler, author of Ladies and Gentleman, The Bronx is Burning. Barra has assumed a different task from that of the average biographer, who is concerned, foremost, with tracing the arc of a life. […]

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* Baseball book roundup: The Houston Chronicle

April 7, 2008

Allan Barra wrote a similar piece for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. In this one, he adds Keeping Score, by Linda Sue Park, and Ty Cobb, Safe at Home, by Don Rhodes, while “contracting” Change Up.

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