Allen Barra

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Allen Barra is an American journalist and author of a number of sports books. He is a contributing editor of American Heritage magazine, and regularly writes about sports for the Wall Street Journal. He has also written for the New York Times and New York Observer, and was formerly a columnist for Salon.com.1 He currently blogs on sports for the Village Voice website. He frequently contributes to Major League Baseball Radio and Daily Beast.23

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Personal

Barra, born in Birmingham, Alabama, currently lives in South Orange, New Jersey.24

Publications

His 2009 book on Yogi Berra, Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee, was praised as "sturdy," "well-written," and "thorough" by the San Francisco Chronicle,1 but the New York Times thought it too enthralled with its subject.5 In 2010, Barra wrote "Rickwood Field: A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark".4

Perception

Barra was one of the few sportswriters to agree with Rush Limbaugh that Donovan McNabb was overrated because of his race.6

In 2009 he was the target of a widely-read critique 7 at the website Deadspin, which targeted Barra's subjective adoration for Derek Jeter.

References

  1. ^ a b http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/06/DD2516T2LR.DTL
  2. ^ a b "Allen Barra | Authors". Macmillan. Retrieved 10 May 2013.  Text " Macmillan" ignored (help)
  3. ^ Barra, Allen. "Why I Write...Allen Barra". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 May 2013. 
  4. ^ a b "Allen Barra". Alabama Booksmith. Retrieved 10 May 2013. 
  5. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/books/review/Mahler-t.html
  6. ^ http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2003/10/rush_limbaugh_was_right.html
  7. ^ http://deadspin.com/5360440/jesus-is-the-derek-jeter-of-christianity

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