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Graig Nettles

The Bookshelf Conversation: Phil Pepe

March 30, 2015

Veteran sports journalist Phil Pepe wants you to know his newest book is not a memoir. His philosophy is that most people don’t care about the writer, how he got his job, the day-to-day doings of the craft. I disagree, but that’s just me. Pepe, who recently turned 80, has been covering baseball since the […]

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Belated birthday greetings

August 21, 2010 · 1 comment

To Graig Nettles, who turned 66 yesterday. He published Balls, with Peter Golenbock, in 1985. Also born on Aug. 20: Al Lopez, one of the classic baseball lifers. Wes Singletary wrote Lopez’s bio, Al Lopez: The Life of Baseball’s El Senor, in 1999.

Tagged as: Al Lopez, Graig Nettles

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