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The Paper Chase; A Second Read

mshapiro — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:17:44 +0000

New in this issue of Columbia Journalisn Review
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New Yorker’s Sporting Scene

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

Santana’s Bad Night

From The New Yorker’s Sporting Scene

mshapiro — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:44:06 +0000

Can These Be the Mets?

Praise in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer

mshapiro — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:19:17 +0000

“A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era. . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons. Grade: A.”

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Bloomberg News Review

mshapiro — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:37:25 +0000

“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

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Boston Globe op-ed

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

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“Compelling” says LA Times

mshapiro — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:52:15 +0000

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.

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Editors’ Choice NY Times Book Review

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

Boston Globe Review

mshapiro — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:16:16 +0000

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.”

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mshapiro — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:19:10 +0000