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Exit Light
Today gives Mariano Rivera Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium. Andy Pettitte makes his final regular season start in the Bronx so it's a sentimental afternoon for an organization that's known to lay it on thick. Still, Rivera is one of my favorite players so I can put up with the schmaltz. I've gone...
The Finest Baseball Game Recap You'll Read This Year
I've written over a thousand game recaps in my 11 years following the Yankees at Bronx Banter. It can be a tedious and dull writing assignment and I struggle to keep the posts fresh. But every so often you'll get a piece on deadline inspiration like the one my man Jon DeRosa delivered last night:...
Terry Southern on Stanley Kubrick
Everything You Always Wanted To Stop Worrying About The Bomb over at Cinephilia and Beyond including these two notable items by screenwriter Terry Southern:...
The Swimmer
Check out this 2009 interview I did with Glenn Stout about his book Trudy Ederle, Young Woman and the Sea....
Picture That
Head on over to The Banter and check out Fred Herzog's beautiful pictures. ...
The Short-Lived Story of Jock, a Vintage Sports Magazine
Check out this 2-part interview I did last year with Mickey Herskowitz on Jock, his fun but short-lived NYC sports magazine (Part 1 was for Sports On Earth; Part 2 for Bronx Banter):...
I Know What Boys Like, I Know What Guys Want
Here's Peter Richmond writing about Mark Sanchez:...
Straight, No Chaser
Last week, we featured an excerpt from Eliot Asinof's fine baseball novel, Man on Spikes. Today, here's more on Asinof....
The Real McCoy
Another classic from Lardner, "The Life and Loves of the Real McCoy":...
Good Old Sidney
Here's a story I wrote a few years ago about watching Dog Day Afternoon on TV late one afternoon with my Dad:...