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"Sports Talk" with Don Henderson and Doug Miles 02/25 by Doug Miles | Blog Talk Radio The Sports Bookie - Bob D'Angelo: Baseball, family and the Pittsburgh Pirates - from TBO.com Sports Sports Talk with Don Henderson and Doug Miles November 26, 2012 Interview with Mike Lowenstein on the Mike Sackley Show, WMBS 590 Part 1 Part 2 Interview with host Brian Tripp, ESPN 1450 and Altoona 1430, July 20, 2012.
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Pittsburgh, PA June 8, 2012—Pittsburgh author Michael E. Lowenstein has released his second book, The Nineteenth Year, A Sweet Summer with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Lowenstein tells the story of the world championship Pittsburgh Pirates of 1971 and the surprisingly inspiring Pirates of 2011. In 1971, when he was fourteen years old, Michael Lowenstein spent the summer watching Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell and the Pittsburgh Pirates on their way to the World Series. Forty years later, in honor of that team, he committed to go forty games to watch a Pirate team that had just finished its eighteenth losing season in a row. The Nineteenth Year tells the story of those two seasons. This is a story of loyalty, passion and hope, and, most of all, of baseball and family. The Nineteenth Year, A Sweet Summer with the Pittsburgh Pirates was published by Pennsylvania publisher Word Association. The Nineteenth Year has been entered in the Sports Book Category of the USA Book News 2012 Best Book Award competition. The book, ISBN 9781595717993, is available for Father’s Day delivery and may be purchased for $16.95 at About the Author: | Endorsements Review From Once Upon A .406 Once Upon A .406 (blog); Davidjmarkowitz@wordpress.com
“Michael Lowenstein captures the bittersweet story of the “post-Francisco Cabrera” era of baseball in Pittsburgh. More than a lament for nineteen years of on-the-field futility, his delightful, elegant memoir-as-history ties the team’s recent efforts to restore its reputation to its more distant but storied past. It reminds us why sport matters, especially in Pittsburgh, and why remaining a fan of the team you worshipped as a youth is one of life’s enduring joys. Lowenstein syncs the 2011 season with 1960 and 1971, with Bob Prince, the Lumber Company, and Roberto Clemente. But what makes this book such a pleasure to read is its seamless tapestry of coming of age in Pittsburgh, family ties, and the meaning of fandom, even when the losses are mounting.” University of Pittsburgh, Department of History Author, Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game; The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game (with Dan Manatt); The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic;and Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh.
The Nineteenth Year and his previous book, We All We Got (about Pitt basketball), establish Michael Lowenstein as one of our very best chroniclers of Pittsburgh sport. He writes like an angel, with grace and illumination, even on the profane subject of a long-losing baseball team. Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, University of Pittsburgh; Author, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1987); Villains of All Nations (2004); The Slave Ship: a Human History (2007); and The Amistad Rebellion (November 2012). Do you love baseball, Pittsburgh, and family? I want to let you know how much I enjoyed reading The Nineteenth Year: A Sweet Summer with the Pittsburgh Pirates, by Mike Lowenstein. Mike's writing on baseball and the Pirates is at once nostalgic and topical. It is sophisticated, insightful, funny, and emotional. Mike captures the essence of how we feel about the game, particularly in Pittsburgh. And it is not lazy. Too many books throw around the names Maz and The Great One and sell a lazy product. This is good stuff. As I read Mike's account of Bob Prince screaming about Chicken on the Hill with Will, I got chills. Then I smiled when I read Mike's next sentence: "That it still gives me chills says something about me." The point being that Mike offers something special and genuine here. I admit I get a lump in my throat during James Earl Jones' speech about the game in Field of Dreams. The very last two sentences of Mike's book (before the epilogue) are even better. With the Pirates one of the hottest teams in baseball, this book will make you want to watch the Bucs with your family and friends, and enjoy it even more. -Perry Napolitano, Partner and Chair, Financial Industry Group, Reed Smith LLP. |
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