Michael Shapiro » Updates http://www.michael-shapiro.com author of Bottom of the Ninth Fri, 07 May 2010 20:24:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 New Yorker’s Sporting Scene http://www.michael-shapiro.com/santanas-bad-night/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/santanas-bad-night/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 18:06:36 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=249 Santana’s Bad Night

]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/santanas-bad-night/feed/ 0 From The New Yorker’s Sporting Scene http://www.michael-shapiro.com/from-the-new-yorkers-sporting-scene/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/from-the-new-yorkers-sporting-scene/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:44:06 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=245 Can These Be the Mets?

]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/from-the-new-yorkers-sporting-scene/feed/ 0 Praise in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer http://www.michael-shapiro.com/praise-in-the-cleveland-plain-dealer/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/praise-in-the-cleveland-plain-dealer/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:19:17 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=204 “A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era. . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons. Grade: A.”

Read full review

]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/praise-in-the-cleveland-plain-dealer/feed/ 0 Bloomberg News Review http://www.michael-shapiro.com/bloomberg-news-review/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/bloomberg-news-review/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:37:25 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=202 “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

Read full review

]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/bloomberg-news-review/feed/ 0 Boston Globe op-ed http://www.michael-shapiro.com/boston-globe-op-ed/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/boston-globe-op-ed/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:08:50 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=200 Read full op-ed

]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/boston-globe-op-ed/feed/ 0 “Compelling” says LA Times http://www.michael-shapiro.com/compelling-says-la-times/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/compelling-says-la-times/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:52:15 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=196 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.

Read Full Review

]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/compelling-says-la-times/feed/ 0 Editors’ Choice NY Times Book Review http://www.michael-shapiro.com/editors-choice-ny-times-book-review/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/editors-choice-ny-times-book-review/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:08:30 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=192 See more

]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/editors-choice-ny-times-book-review/feed/ 0 Boston Globe Review http://www.michael-shapiro.com/boston-globe-review/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/boston-globe-review/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:16:16 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=190 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.”

Read full review

]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/boston-globe-review/feed/ 0 On Leonard Lopate June 9, 12:40 WYNC 820 AM, 939. FM http://www.michael-shapiro.com/on-leonard-lopate-june-9-1240-wync-820-am-939-fm/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/on-leonard-lopate-june-9-1240-wync-820-am-939-fm/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:19:10 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=186 http://www.michael-shapiro.com/on-leonard-lopate-june-9-1240-wync-820-am-939-fm/feed/ 0 Appearing at Foley’s Monday, June 8 at noon http://www.michael-shapiro.com/appearing-at-foleys-monday-june-8-at-noon/ http://www.michael-shapiro.com/appearing-at-foleys-monday-june-8-at-noon/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:47:42 +0000 mshapiro http://www.michael-shapiro.com/?p=184 Michael Shapiro Comes To Foleys 6/8/2009 – Baseball Digest Live on Blog Talk Radio
Source: www.blogtalkradio.com
Award-winning author Michael Shapiro will appear live at Foleys NY to discuss his book Bottom Of The Ninth. He will also sign copies of the fascinating work which details the attempt by Branch Rickey to save baseball from itself. Jun 08 2009
]]> http://www.michael-shapiro.com/appearing-at-foleys-monday-june-8-at-noon/feed/ 0