Metsmerizedonline posted this interview with the author of Bottom of the Ninth.
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Author Profile / interview
* Author Q&A: Michael Shapiro
June 12, 2009
* Poetry. In motion?
June 12, 2009
Although I write a weekly hiaku for my newspaper on the week’s Torah reading, I rarely touch poetry. It’s too subjective.(Here’s my favorite, which I heard on an old Tony Kornhieser radio program: “Haikus can be fun /but sometimes they don’t make sense: /Refrigerator.” Hee.) Anyway, that said, here’s an article from the Hudson Reporter […]
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* New book examines Big Red Machine's architect Howsam
June 12, 2009
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, this piece about a new biography on Bob Howsam by author Daryl Smith. I wonder if there was a reason the writer doesn’t actually mention the title of the book in the article? The Amazon Report: Making the Big Red Machine: Bob Howsam and the Cincinnati Reds of the 1970s
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* More National Pastime Radio
June 12, 2009
“Three baseball books are discussed: A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez by Selena Roberts, American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime by the staff of the New York Daily News, and The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci.” You read and listen to the […]
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Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, Joe Torre, Roger Clemens, steroids
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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 […]
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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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* Yo lo tengo!
June 9, 2009
You would have thought someone would have published this years ago. Oh wait, someone did. Somewhere, many years ago when the Montreal Expos were in their heyday, I had a French-English baseball dictionary. Wish I could get my hands on that again.
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* Novelist Sara Paretsky, Cubs fan
June 3, 2009
The Chicago Tribune ran this profile of Paretsky, creator of popular character V.I. Warshawski, and how she incorporates baseball and the Cubbies in her books. She wrote about Chicago’s unique brand of softball in one of her books.
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* New York Yanks in New York mag
June 2, 2009
Will Leitch, now a member of the brotherhood of journalism he so railed against as editor of Deadspin, wrote this piece on the resurgence of the Bronx Bombers. Among the questions that need answering, according to Leitch: What about that fifth starter? (That is, how do you go: Wang or Hughes?) Can middle relief be […]
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Tagged as: Michael Lewis, New York Magazine, New York Yankees
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* Author profile: Jason Aronoff
May 31, 2009
The Buffalo News ran this profile on Aronoff, who recently published Going, Going . . . Caught! — a book about the greatest catches made by baseball outfielders in the years 1887-1964. That was before “Web Gems,” for you young’uns out there. Like other memories, stories about such plays seem to expand with the passing […]
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Tagged as: Defensive plays
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* Q&A with S.L. Price
May 30, 2009
The New York Times “Bats” blog recently ran this Q&A with the author of Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America (Ecco), which is the heartbreaking story of the on-field death of Mike Coolbaugh, the first base coach for the Tulsa Drillers who was hit by a foul line drive. […]
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* Rocket's red glare nothing but 'roid rage?
May 27, 2009
Jeff Pearlman’s bio on Roger Clemens came out a few months back. Do we really need another? I’m reading American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime right now, so I’ll save my comments on it till I’m done. In the meantime, here are a few items from […]
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Tagged as: PED, Roger Clemens
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* Road trip
May 21, 2009
Jack Keruoac, baseball nerd? Who knew? According to this recent piece from The New York Times, the beat author created his own fantasy sports teams and leagues. Makes sense, since he was basicaly living in a fantasy world anyway. He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention, charting the exploits of made-up […]
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* Author Q & A: Bill Reynolds
May 21, 2009
The author of ’78: The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game, and a Divided City, gets the treament from the good folks at HuggingHaroldReynolds (any relation?).
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* Author interview: Bert Randolph Sugar
May 14, 2009
Sports Crackle Pop, “an independent sports blog with a focus on the sports world in relation to pop culture,” posted this interview with the author of a new book about the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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* Double your (reading) pleasure
May 14, 2009
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 […]
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Tagged as: Brooklyn Dodgers, Michael Shapiro, New York Giants, New York Mets, Robert E. Murphy
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Our friend Jonathan Mayo contributed this review/author profile of Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America, as did our other friend, Stan Hochman of the Philadelphia Daily News. Have you ever thought about the veteran minor league player, the one who has no longer has a realistic chance of making […]
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Tagged as: Jonathan Mayo, Mike Coolbaugh, S.L. Price
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* Manny author defends her boy
May 8, 2009
As if in answer to my question yesterday, here’s a piece from the Boston Herald on Jean Rhodes, author of Becoming Manny, and her take on the latest developments.
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* National Public Radio: Darryl Strawberry
May 3, 2009
The Straw man was on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show last Thursday. You can hear it here: Or you can watch it here: Is my math off, or doesn’t radio + video = television? http://audio.wnyc.org/lopate/lopate043009apod.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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Tagged as: Darryl Strawberry, Leonard Lopate, NPT, WNYC
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* Author Interview: Curt Smith
May 1, 2009
His latest book is a biography on Vin Scully. Here is is, interviewed on Fang’s Bite, “Your One Stop Source for All Things Sports Media, The Amazing Race, The Amazing Race Asia and anything else I can think of,” according to its creator.
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* Author interview: Darryl Strawberry
May 1, 2009
Time magazine did a Q&A with the former Major Leaguer. And here’s a transcript from his April 28 appearance on Fox’s Hannity show, where he humped his new book, Straw: Finding My Way.
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Tagged as: Darryl Strawberry
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