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Michael Shapiro

* Bits and Pieces

June 17, 2009 · 0 comments

Time to play a little catch-up: From Pressboxonline.com, a Baltimore-sports oriented site, a review of Bert Randolph Sugar’s new coffee table book about the Hall of Fame. “[The author] left nothing out and I can’t think of a better way to educate those whom are grasping for a better understanding of baseball’s history than to [...]

Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, baseball books, Baseball Hall of Fame, Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Curt Smith, Michael Shapiro, Roger Clemens, steroids, Vin Scully

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* Author Q&A: Michael Shapiro

June 12, 2009 · 0 comments

Metsmerizedonline posted this interview with the author of Bottom of the Ninth.

Tagged as: Dodgers, Giants, Mets, Michael Shapiro, Walter O'Malley

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* National Pastime Radio

June 11, 2009 · 1 comment

Several baseball items have popped up on NPR shows in recent days: Larry Tye, author of the new biography Satchel: The Life and Times of An American Legend, was a guest on Fresh Air. You can hear the show here as well as read an excerpt from the book. *** Brian Lehrer had this segment [...]

Tagged as: Baseball music, Brian Lehrer, Brooklyn Dodgers, Keith Nernandez, Larry Tye, Leonard Lopate, Michael Shapiro, New York Giants, New York Mets, NPR, Satchel Paige, WNYC

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* Double your (reading) pleasure

May 14, 2009 · 0 comments

From mediabistro.com, this double profile of authors Michael Shapiro (Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself) and Robert E. Murphy (After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball).  Shapiro previously published The Last Good [...]

Tagged as: Brooklyn Dodgers, Michael Shapiro, New York Giants, New York Mets, Robert E. Murphy

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