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Sporting Scene: Lawrence Taylor

mshapiro — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:24:25 +0000

The Mind of Lawrence Taylor

Another from Sporting Scene

mshapiro — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:11:31 +0000

Yankees versus Obama’s Team

New Yorker’s Sporting Scene

mshapiro — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:06:36 +0000

Santana’s Bad Night

In CJR on Paid Content for Newspapers

mshapiro — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:32:43 +0000

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

mshapiro — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:29:47 +0000

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

mshapiro — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:27:27 +0000

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

mshapiro — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:08:50 +0000

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Chicago Tribune op-ed The Devil and Charlie Weeghman

mshapiro — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:49:59 +0000

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

mshapiro — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:08:30 +0000

Review on Bluebird Banter Blog

mshapiro — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:30:01 +0000

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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