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Glenn Stout

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Author of the Jazz Age true crime yarn Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid: America's Original Gangster Couple (2021), NY Times bestseller The Pats: An Illustrated History of the New England Patriots (2018) The Selling of the Babe (2016), Fenway 1912 (2012) and Young Woman the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World (2009) currently set up and in development as a major motion picture for Disney +. (ETA 2021). Since becoming a full-time writer in 1993, Glenn Stout has written, ghostwritten or edited 100 books representing sales in excess of two million copies. Stout is also author of The Cubs, The Dodgers, Nine Months at Ground Zero, Yankees Century, Red Sox Century, and has served as Series Editor of The Best Ame ...more

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A Little (True) Christmas Story

Christmas can be stressful, and even more so when you’re a toddler not quite three years old and it’s the first Christmas you can really anticipate, full of Santas and stockings and reindeer and angels. We usually have Claire, my granddaughter, a couple days a week and this week she’s been too excited to take a nap, so at the end of the day, when we meet her Mom after she gets off work halfway Read more of this blog post »
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What's Your Juice? by Troy Urdahl
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Troy Urdahl has a real gift in his ability to translate lessons in leadership and coaching to a wide audience that reaches beyond the playing field and into our personal lives. Always accessible and thoughtful I recommend this book to anyone who is e ...more
Young Woman and the Sea by Glenn Stout
"Almost 2 weeks since I finished this and I can’t stop thinking abt Trudy 👊🏽🌟🩵"
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"This book was very interesting; I really enjoyed the deep dive into the history of swimming and specifically women and swimming. I'm excited to follow this up with watching the movie adaptation. "
Young Woman and the Sea [Movie Tie-in] by Glenn Stout
"I *finally* finished this book, though no fault of the author or the story. Reading a biography is a relatively new genre for me, and it took me a long time to get into the story. It started off slow with a lot of backstory and detail, which was impo" Read more of this review »
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Inventive, original and surprisingly moving leadership manual that delivers life lessons under the guise of a semi-fictional story - the opening of a town ballpark and the return of players to play homage to their legendary coach. Terrific for anyone ...more
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" Just an fyi, as I know you didnt read the print version, but the print book contains rather extensive notes, and I state very cleanly that no dialogue ...more "
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What Makes Sammy Jr. Run, a collection of classic celebrity profiles from the 60s and 70’s edited by word curator supreme Alex Belth, is like one of those Russian nesting eggs. Each story and author is a wonderful unexpected surprise that, cumulative ...more
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“No one who now competes against Tiger Woods does so without wearing a similar competitive mask. Even as they try to forge ahead and”
Glenn Stout, Chasing Tiger: The Tiger Woods Reader

“Kellerman revealed herself slowly. She first threw the diablo (a form of juggling),”
Glenn Stout, Young Woman And The Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World

“One particularly cynical digital editor actually once told me the “best” stories were those that readers clicked on . . . and then stopped reading quickly so they would visit other destinations on the website as soon as possible.”
Glenn Stout, The Best American Sports Writing 2018: A Twenty-Five-Year Anthology of Exceptional Journalism and Diverse Voices

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