Six Degrees of Aggregation
Posted: April 24th, 2012 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Updates | No Comments »How Huffington Post Ate the Internet
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/six_degrees_of_aggregation.php?
The Paper Chase; A Second Read
Posted: May 6th, 2011 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Updates | No Comments »New in this issue of Columbia Journalisn Review
http://bit.ly/iKXGvh
New Yorker’s Sporting Scene
Posted: May 7th, 2010 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Updates, bloggers | No Comments »From The New Yorker’s Sporting Scene
Posted: April 30th, 2010 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Updates | No Comments »Praise in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Posted: July 1st, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, Updates | No Comments »“A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era. . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons. Grade: A.”
Bloomberg News Review
Posted: July 1st, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, Updates | No Comments »“This season brings a bumper crop of books about baseball in New York, the best of which concerns a team and a league that don’t even exist. Michael Shapiro’s ‘Bottom of the Ninth’ . . . is one of the best tales of what might have been, how baseball might have harnessed the power of television and how the sport might have staved off the rise of football.”
–David M. Shribman, Bloomberg News
Boston Globe op-ed
Posted: June 16th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Updates, bloggers | No Comments »“Compelling” says LA Times
Posted: June 16th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, Updates | No Comments »Shapiro, author of the terrific “The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together,” does an admirable job telling this complex story.
Editors’ Choice NY Times Book Review
Posted: June 12th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, Updates, bloggers | No Comments »Boston Globe Review
Posted: June 11th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews, Updates | No Comments »Michael Shapiro elegantly describes the ill-fated effort to establish the eight-team Continental League in “Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball From Itself.”
