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Mel Foster narrates this unabridged version of Feinstein’s latest baseball title. That’s almost 19 hours of listening to what sounds very much like a computer-generated voice. Which is a shame, because the book — which considers the approach to the game by two veteran pitchers (Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina) — albeit long and with […]
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On the June 21 edition of Only a Game, Bill Littlefield offered this interview with John Feinstein, author of Living on the Black. (Sorry, but you have to listen to the preceding stories before you get to the Feinstein segment.) Read an excerpt from Living on the Black. The Leonard Lopate Show of June 24 […]
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From Bloomberg.com, this piece featuring Feinstein’s Living on the Black and Halberstam’s Everything They Had.
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A thoughtful examination of Feinstein’s latest.
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Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember, by John Feinstein (Little, Brown and Company) John Feinstein’s latest tome considers two veteran major leaguers plying their craft during the 2007 season search of major milestones in the magnifying glass of the media frenzy that is New York. Tom Glavine won his 300th game with the […]
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From a more diverse post on Chapelhillnews.com: ‘Living on the Black’ ‘Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember”, $26.99 (Little Brown, 526 pp.), by John Feinstein Pitching is one of the most difficult jobs on the planet. So, pitching well is reserved for only an elite few athletes. John Feinstein’s “Living on the Black” […]
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Today’s Publisher’s Weekly ran this starred review of Feinstein’s latest: Though the season-long profile—in which a sportswriter follows a player, team or coach through a single season—grows increasingly familiar, this entry from Feinstein, one of the genre’s pioneers (Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today’s NFL;The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and […]
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(Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a regular feature.) Reading the new book by John Feinstein. I’ve always enjoyed his work, especially on baseball and golf, but I came across this paragraph and it got my eyes rolling: On page 155, Feinstein writes: Joe Torre, who came up to the majors as a catcher, […]
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The Conn. Post writer takes an awfully long time getting there, but this piece is ultimately about John Feinstein’s latest baseball book.
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets’ 1969 postseason appears in
Profiles of several Jewish baseball figures appear in
