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Sporting Scene: Lawrence Taylor

Posted: May 7th, 2010 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: bloggers | No Comments »

The Mind of Lawrence Taylor


Another from Sporting Scene

Posted: May 7th, 2010 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: bloggers | No Comments »

Yankees versus Obama’s Team


New Yorker’s Sporting Scene

Posted: May 7th, 2010 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Updates, bloggers | No Comments »

Santana’s Bad Night


In CJR on Paid Content for Newspapers

Posted: July 29th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: bloggers | No Comments »

In the dark winter and spring of 2009, as dispatches from the news business grew ever more grim, as Jim Romenesko’s posts took on the feel of casualty reports, newsrooms across the land began to feel like the Emerald City when the Wicked Witch soars overhead, trailing smoke and sending everyone scurrying not for cover, but for an answer, to the Wizard. So it was that in the midst of this gloomy time help appeared, and not merely
the illusion of a wizardly hand. It came from Walter Isaacson and from Steven Brill, who were quickly joined by a determined chorus that, no longer willing to stand idly by as its trade died, took up a call that was clear, direct, and seemingly unassailable in its logic: make the readers pay.

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Huffington Post on Baseball and Pay-Tv

Posted: July 29th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: bloggers | No Comments »

This month marks the 45th anniversary of baseball’s first pay-to-view major league baseball game, and with whom better to celebrate than the team that hosted that first telecast from the House that Walter O’Malley built?

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The NY Times on the Continental League

Posted: July 29th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: bloggers | No Comments »

Monday is the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Continental League, and it is understandable if the moment does not trigger a flood of happy associations or, for that matter, any memories at all.

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Boston Globe op-ed

Posted: June 16th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Updates, bloggers | No Comments »

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Chicago Tribune op-ed The Devil and Charlie Weeghman

Posted: June 16th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: bloggers | No Comments »

Chicago’s two remaining baseball clubs open a three-game series at Wrigley Field on Tuesday night and you are thinking, remaining?

Cubs. Sox. And the ghost.

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Editors’ Choice NY Times Book Review

Posted: June 12th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, Updates, bloggers | No Comments »

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Review on Bluebird Banter Blog

Posted: May 19th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, bloggers | No Comments »

Michael Shapiro’s Bottom of the Ninth was released last week by Times Books/Henry Holt, and I barely put it down between the time I got my copy in the mail and the time I finished it.

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