Verb Plow

  Before the start of the 1918 "Worlds Series" there was joy in Boston and Chicago, but little interest elsewhere.   Due to...

When writing history – even of baseball - the challenge is to stay true and authentic. That means refusing to place into the historical reco...

[ NOTE : This is a reprint of a column I wrote on deadline following Ted Williams' death for Boston Baseball . I also think it says a ...

Good thing they’ve got Fenway. Over the course of this offseason I’ve traveled thousands of miles speaking about Fenway Park with fans all o...

As I have travelled New England and the Northeast promoting Fenway 1912, one of the questions I am most often asked is about the future of F...

Fenway 1912 was just awarded the 2012 Seymour Medal by the Society for American Baseball Research as the best baseballbook of biography or h...

On my recent book tour for the bestselling Fenway 1912 , when people ask me what I think the future holds for Fenway Park, I answer “real es...

Received the good news this week that in addition to being a Boston Globe best seller, the best selling Red Sox book of the season and one ...

In the winter, when it is cold and dark and the snow is blowing and blotting out the far shore of Lake Champlain in northern Vermont, where ...

This morning Fenway 1912 was number #7 on the Boston Globe nonfiction hardcover bestseller list. The Best American Sports Writing 2011 was #...

A review from one of the heavyweights: “Stout, who edits the annual volume of “Best American Sports Writing,” takes as his subject not Fenwa...

In a terrific review in the Boston Globe and on Boston.com, the esteemed Chad Finn says some terrific things about Fenway 1912, all of whic...

How does your book differ from all the other Fenway books coming out to celebrate the ballparks’ anniversary? Fenway 1912 breaks so much new...

I am pleased to announce the near simultaneous publication of my next three books: The Best American Sports Writing 2011 , guest edited by J...

Postseason tickets printed and un-used are called phantoms. Here is my "phantom" Chin Music column from the now unpublished posts...

One hundred years ago today, September 25, with little ceremony or fanfare, construction on Fenway Park began. It had been common knowledge ...

And they are terrific. “In the capable hands of Stout, it promises to make all other books about Fenway’s construction and first season obso...

As a non-fiction writer, there is nothing I enjoy more than taking on a subject that everyone thinks they know everything about, and uncove...