Summer of ’98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America is written by a sports columnist for a newspaper founded in what year?
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Summer of ’98 Summer of ’98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America is a 1999 book written by Mike Lupica a sports columnist for the "New York Daily News" and an "ESPN" analyst. The book follows the 1998 baseball season that featured Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chasing Roger Maris home run record. Lupica’s book approaches the subject in a three generational context where his father, himself, and his son are all passionate baseball fans following the home run competition.
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New York Daily News The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City. s of May 2016 , it was the ninth-most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States. It was founded in 1919, and was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It is owned by tronc.
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David Haugh David Haugh (born May 22, 1968) is a sports columnist with the "Chicago Tribune". He began his career at the "South Bend Tribune" in Indiana, working there for nearly a decade before joining the "Chicago Tribune" as the paper's Chicago Bears beat writer. Currently, he writes the "In the Wake of the News" column, originated at the "Tribune" by Hugh E. Keough in 1907. Haugh was also the co-host of the now-defunct "Kap and Haugh Show", which aired on Comcast SportsNet Chicago and WGN Plus. He partnered with longtime Chicago sports broadcaster David Kaplan on the program from 9-noon M-F.
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Grantland Grantland was a sports and pop-culture blog owned and operated by ESPN. The blog was started in 2011 by veteran writer and sports journalist Bill Simmons, who remained as editor-in-chief until May 2015. "Grantland" was named after famed 20th-century sportswriter Grantland Rice (1880–1954).
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Michael Wilbon Michael Ray Wilbon ( ; born November 19, 1958) is an ESPN commentator and former sportswriter and columnist for "The Washington Post". He is an analyst for ESPN and has co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN with former "Post" writer Tony Kornheiser since 2001.
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Steven Krasner Steven Krasner (born August 1, 1953) is a retired sports journalist and current author of children's books. He is best known for covering the Boston Red Sox for The Providence Journal, which he did from 1986 until his retirement from the newspaper in 2008. He has freelanced for ESPN-Boston.com and is Executive Director of Rhode Island Write on Sports.
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Jim Souhan Jim Souhan is a sports journalist for the "Minneapolis Star Tribune" and a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America since 1993.
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Gus Rooney Augustine Joseph "Gus" Rooney was an American sportswriter, baseball umpire, football referee, and sports announcer.
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Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion is a 1988 book written by Roger Angell, whose previous works include "Five Seasons", "Late Innings", and the New York Times best-seller, "The Summer Game". Angell is considered one of the country's premier baseball writers.
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Dan Barry (reporter) Dan Barry is a reporter and columnist for "The New York Times", where he has written the "This Land" column since January 2007. Barry is also the author of four books, including "Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption and Baseball's Longest Game," which won the 2012 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting, and “Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland,” published in 2016.
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Baseball Hobby News Baseball Hobby News was a United States based news-oriented magazine about the field of baseball memorabilia collecting. Founded in 1979 by the husband-and-wife team of Frank and Vivian Barning, who served as editor and publisher, respectively, the magazine was published on a monthly basis until 1993. The first issue appeared in March 1979. For most of its run, it appeared in a newspaper-style format, although it later converted to a tabloid size with a color cover.
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John Steigerwald John Steigerwald (born October 3, 1948), is a Pittsburgh-based sports reporter, commentator, and former sports anchor and second oldest member of the Steigerwald media family that includes his older brother Bill and younger brothers Paul Steigerwald and rock guitarist Dan Steigerwald. John worked on the sports anchor team at WTAE-TV (ABC), along with other Pittsburgh notables such as Myron Cope and Bill Hillgrove. He later moved to KDKA-TV (CBS) in 1985 and was an anchor and primary Pittsburgh Steelers reporter for 30 years. KDKA chose not to renew his contract in 2007. Until 2015 he was a "Sports Talk" host on the radio website of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He writes a weekly column for The Daily Caller and his web site is JustWatchtheGame.com. John's brother Bill Steigerwald is an ex-newspaperman and book author ("30 Days a Black Man" and "Dogging Steinbeck") who worked at the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the 1990s and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in the 2000s. Paul Steigerwald, a former KDKA-TV sports reporter, is the Pittsburgh Penguins television play-by-play announcer.
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Baseball Think Factory Baseball Think Factory, abbreviated as BTF or BBTF, is a sabermetrically-oriented baseball web site that features daily news stories in baseball, with original content contributed by SABR members such as Dan Szymborski. The site was previously branded as "Baseball Primer", and was created in 2001 by the founders of Baseball-Reference. Contributors who have gone on to work for Major League Baseball front offices include Voros McCracken, Carlos Gomez, and Tom Tango. Bill James' "Baseball Abstract" books published in the 1980s are widely considered to be the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as "baseballthinkfactory" and baseballprospectus.
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Stan Hochman Stan Hochman (1928 – April 9, 2015) was a sportswriter who covered the Philadelphia Phillies for the "Philadelphia Daily News". He was a voting member of the BBWAA. Other papers he worked for include the "Brownsville Herald", "Corpus Christi Caller-Times", "Waco News-Tribune" and "San Bernardino Sun".
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Dave Anderson (sportswriter) Dave Anderson (born May 6, 1929 in Troy, New York) is an American sportswriter based in New York City. In 1981 he won a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary on sporting events. He is the author of 21 books and more than 350 magazine articles.
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Pablo S. Torre Pablo S. Torre (born September 27, 1985) is an American sportswriter and columnist for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. Torre is a regular guest on various ESPN shows such as Around the Horn and The Sports Reporters. He also frequently serves as an alternate host for Around the Horn, Highly Questionable, and Pardon the Interruption. He has also appeared on Outside the Lines, The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, and TrueHoop. Aside from ESPN-related productions, Torre is also a contributor to National Public Radio.
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O. P. Caylor Oliver Perry Caylor (December 14, 1849 – October 19, 1897) was an American baseball newspaper columnist for "The Cincinnati Enquirer" and the "Cincinnati Commercial" before becoming one of the principal figures in the founding of the American Association in 1881 as well as the catalyst in the formation of the modern-day Cincinnati Reds.
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William J. Slocum William J. Slocum (1884 – May 6, 1943) was an American sports writer who spent more than twenty years covering baseball in New York newspapers.
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Russell Baker Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography "Growing Up" (1982). He was a columnist for "The New York Times" from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show "Masterpiece Theatre" from 1992 to 2004. The ""Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994" states:
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The Olympian The Olympian is a newspaper based in Olympia, Washington, in the United States.
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Red Barber Walter Lanier "Red" Barber (February 17, 1908 – October 22, 1992) was an American sports commentator. Barber, nicknamed "The Ol' Redhead", was primarily identified with radio broadcasts of Major League Baseball, calling play-by-play across four decades with the Cincinnati Reds (1934–1938), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939–1953), and New York Yankees (1954–1966). Like his fellow sports pioneer Mel Allen, Barber also gained a niche calling college and professional American football in his primary market of New York City.
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Mike Levine (newspaper writer) Mike Levine (newspaper writer) (born May 2, 1952, New York City, New York, died January 14, 2007, Monroe, New York) was an award winning newspaper and magazine journalist, columnist, and editor, best known for his writing and leadership roles at the "Times-Herald Record" and ESPN.