Verb Plow

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Monday, May 6, 2013

Glove Story

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from Boston Baseball, May 2013   In Vermont we have mudrooms because in the spring, which is just now arriving, you need a place to ...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Chin Music: Viva la Revolution!

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  One of the advantages of being a King, or a Dictator, or what is known in baseball circles as a “Magnate,” is that for one, you get ...
Monday, September 3, 2012

What to Look Forward to this Fall in New England: A Guide for Red Sox Fans

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A lot of chores just got green lighted. And it’s all Josh Beckett’s fault. Beckett and A-Gone’s. And Crawford’s. The past two seasons t...
Friday, August 3, 2012

HOW I BECAME A WRITER: A TRUE STORY

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In the spring of 1985 I was twenty-seven years old, four years out of college with a degree in Creative Writing and working at the Bosto...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Shades of Gray (and Red Sox)

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Each loss makes the game so clear. For both the players and the fan defeat is the great test of this game. Every player from Little Leag...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

THANKS FOR BEING A WRITER

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Yesterday I had a brief but memorable exchange with a writer. Over the past few weeks I’ve been recruiting stories for the Cool But As Yet U...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Mess of History

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When writing history – even of baseball - the challenge is to stay true and authentic. That means refusing to place into the historical reco...
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Glenn Stout
Glenn Stout has been a full-time writer since 1993, Glenn Stout has written, ghostwritten or edited more than 100 books representing sales in excess of two million copies, Young Woman and the Sea, now a feature film from Disney, NY Times bestseller The Pats, The Selling of the Babe, Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season and Fenway's Remarkable First Year, The Cubs, The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball, Nine Months at Ground Zero, Yankees Century, Red Sox Century (finalist for the New England Book Award in non-fiction), Jackie Robinson: Between the Baselines, Joe DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life and Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures (a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”) He has also edited the anthologies Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam, Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection, Top of the Heap: A Yankees Collection. He has served as Series Editor of the Best American Sports Writing series since its inception in 1991 and is the author of the Good Sports juvenile series. All contents copyright 2024.
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