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The Voice of Baseball Fans

Former Village Voice sports reporter Emma Span chose the wrong season to follow New York's bumbling baseball teams. So instead she turned her book inwards, on the life of a fan.

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Brawls Over Baseball Bucks

Diamond historian Lee Lowenfish tells Gelf the sport's labor history has a way of repeating itself.

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NASCAR in the Rear-View Mirror

Sports Illustrated editor Mark Bechtel tells Gelf about his new meta-history of NASCAR, an American art form.

Books

The Thinking Man's Games

Malcolm Gladwell dishes on sports figures from Gary Bettman to Bill Simmons to Tim Tebow.

Sports

Chuck Klosterman's Wide World of Sports

The author of 'Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs' takes on gridiron dangers, Tiger Woods, and Leno-Conan.

Books

Brooklyn Brownstone or Bust

Home to the overeducated and overconcerned, Amy Sohn's Park Slope offers a union labor-certified piñata stuffed with liberal excess.

Books

Of Corellians, Wookiees and Things That Won't Stay Dead

Author Joe Schreiber discusses what's different—and what's not—about writing horror set in the Star Wars galaxy.

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Mapping the Galaxy of Far, Far Away

Author Jason Fry discusses the challenge of putting the Star Wars universe into an authoritative atlas.

Sports

A Cold War Thaw on Ice

Tom and Jerry Caraccioli tell Gelf about how a Soviet coach helped a US hockey team strike silver at the 1972 Olympics.

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When the World Series Went National

Veteran sportswriter Mike Vaccaro assays the 1912 World Series, a dramatic chapter that put the Boston-New York rivalry on national center stage.

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