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Allen Barra is an American journalist and author of sports books. He is a contributing editor of American Heritage magazine, and regularly writes about sports for The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic.[1] He has also written for The New York Times and The New York Observer, and was formerly a columnist for Salon.[2] He formerly blogged on sports for the Village Voice website. He frequently contributes to Major League Baseball Radio and The Daily Beast.[3][4]
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AllenBarra is an American journalist and author of sports books. He is a contributing editor of American Heritage magazine, and regularly writes about...
Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2014. AllenBarra (2010). Rickwood Field: A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark. W. W...
it "banal and cliché-strewn". In his negative review on The Atlantic, AllenBarra labeled the book "2011's biggest literary letdown" and "a big disappointment...
typical Triple Crown stats. EBP was a predecessor to slugging percentage. AllenBarra and George Ignatin were early adopters in combining the two modern-day...
contemporary evidence of the event for many months without success. AllenBarra, an author who focuses on Wyatt Earp, also searched for evidence corroborating...
equally unsuccessful, marked an unusual choice for Jolie. Salon magazine's AllenBarra considered her ambitious newscaster character a rare attempt at playing...
1949, Mays did not graduate from Fairfield until 1950, which journalist AllenBarra calls "a minor mystery in Willie's life". Mays's professional baseball...
tautology or a contradiction, but often with underlying humor and wisdom. AllenBarra has described them as "distilled bits of wisdom which, like good country...
being reviled" is eloquently discussed. Native Alabamian sports writer AllenBarra sharply criticized Lee and the novel in The Wall Street Journal calling...
a 2011 column in The Atlantic, American journalist and sports author AllenBarra took issue with Lewis's characterization of Major League Baseball in...
explanations were conflicting and not credible. New York Times contributor AllenBarra wrote that I Married Wyatt Earp "... is now recognized by Earp researchers...
Many sportswriters have noted the passionate presence of Phillies fans. AllenBarra wrote that the biggest roar he ever heard from Philadelphia fans was...
"Oh Boy. Tadzio, Adzio, and the secret history of Death in Venice" by AllenBarra. December 3–9, 2003 Archived 20 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine Jones...
2012. AllenBarra (2007-05-27). "An Asterisk is very real, even when it's not". New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Barra, Allen...
"So the Torah Is a Parenting Guide?" by Emily Bazelon October 1, 2006 AllenBarra "The Return of the Player," Salon, October 26, 2006. Michael Tolkin at...
His Pards". Variety. p. 1. Retrieved May 25, 2023. Toots Shor at IMDb AllenBarra[permanent dead link] "Documentary: The Incomparable Toots" American Heritage...
1946-1996. Austrianmonk Publishing. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-61584-545-3. AllenBarra (14 May 2013). Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives...
Peter King construed the comment as "boneheaded". The sports analyst AllenBarra wrote Limbaugh's viewpoint was shared by "many football fans and analysts"...
sports. AllenBarra (November 27, 2007). "> news > Runnin' Scared: Once Again, One of Baseball's Greatest is Kept from Cooperstown by AllenBarra". village...
tie in a late regular season game. In a biography of Bryant written by AllenBarra, the author suggests that the major polling services refused to elect...
Dust," Archived 2022-09-15 at the Wayback Machine Paste, April 8, 2015. AllenBarra, "Who was John Fante?" Archived 2018-01-03 at the Wayback Machine Salon...
matching a documentary HBO did a couple of years ago titled “Cosell.”" AllenBarra of The New York Times gave the film a more positive review, writing that...
novel was called the best ever written on the subject by Earp biographer AllenBarra and was recognized by True West Magazine as the Best Historical Western...
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