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Spanning the Globe

May 17, 2010 · 0 comments

The Boston Globe has been active on the baseball review front of late. Bill Nowlin, author of several titles on the Red Sox, contributed this piece on Howard Bryant’s bio of Hank Aaron for today’s edition. Yesterday, Bill Littlefield, host of NPR’s Only a Game, considered two baseball titles — Cardboard Gods by Josh Wilker [...]

Tagged as: Baseball Cards, Bill Littlefield, Hank Aaron, NPR, Only a Game, San Pedro de Macaris

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* National Pastime Radio: Steinbrenner biography

June 1, 2009 · 0 comments

The most recent episode of Only a Game includes an interview with Peter Golenbock, author of George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire. You can hear the segment here.

Tagged as: George Steinbrenner, Only a Game, Peter Golenbock

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* Author update: Jeff Pearlman

April 6, 2009 · 0 comments

One source expected, the other more unusual. Pearlman, author of the scathing new Clemens biography, The Rocket Who Fell to Earth, was a guest on WBUR’s Only a Game this weekend. Just as players, I wonder if authors get tired of answering the same questions as they make the rounds. All part of doing business, [...]

Tagged as: Jeff Perlman, NPR, Only a Game, Psychology Today, Roger Clemens

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* Authors being authors

March 16, 2009 · 0 comments

This week’s Only a Game featured a Bill Littlefield interview with Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg, authors of Becoming Manny: Inside the Life of Baseball’s Most Enigmatic Slugger. This one is high on my “to read” pile as it seems to go beyond the standard player biography. The segment comes at the 21:58 mark, preceded [...]

Tagged as: Manny Ramirez, National Public Radio, Only a Game

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* National Pastime Radio

June 25, 2008 · 0 comments

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.) [audio http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/06/onlyagame_0621.mp3] Read an excerpt from Living on the Black. The Leonard Lopate Show of [...]

Tagged as: John Feinstein, Leonard Lopate, Nicholas Dawidoff, Only a Game

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