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Varsity Letters
October 28, 2010
November 4: Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, November 4, at 7 p.m. At this monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Tommy Craggs, Dave Jamieson, and Howard Bryant will read from and talk about their work. Craggs will discuss his work at Deadspin, and how the media abuses Hank Aaron's legacy. Jamieson will track the rise and fall of the baseball-card industry. And Bryant will discuss his biography of Aaron.
Varsity Letters
October 2, 2010
October 7: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, October 7, at 7:30 p.m. At this monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Alex Belth, Jay Jennings, and Matthew Shepatin will read from and talk about their work. Belth will share his favorite sportswriters' favorite memories of the late, lamented Yankee Stadium; Jennings will recount the tale of an integrated high-school football team playing in the shadow of segregationist history; and Shepatin will tell the unlikely story of Don Maynard, the former Jets great.
Varsity Letters
August 23, 2010
September 2: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, September 2, at 7:30 p.m. At this monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Dan Epstein, Michael Weinreb, Dave Zirin will read from and talk about their work. Epstein will revisit the quirks and fun of 1970s baseball. Weinreb traces the roots of the modern athlete to the 1980s, his formative years as a sports fan. And Zirin will decry the owners who ruin sports.
Varsity Letters
July 5, 2010
August 5: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, August 5, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Beth Raymer, Paul Solotaroff, and Joseph E. Wallace will read from and talk about their work. Raymer will recount her experience as a girl Friday for a Vegas sports-gambling operator. Solotaroff will describe his steroids-fueled, bodybuilding youth. And Wallace will read from his novel inspired by Jackie Mitchell, the 17-year-old woman who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931.
Varsity Letters
June 21, 2010
July 1: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, July 1, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Mark Hyman, Elias Altman, and Will Leitch will read from and talk about their work. Hyman will examine youth sports and their dangers. Altman will bring stories from the latest, sports-themed issue of Lapham's Quarterly. And Leitch will discuss father-son relationships around baseball.
Varsity Letters
May 30, 2010
June 3: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, June 3, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Rafe Bartholomew, Steven D. Stark, Harrison Stark, and Matthew Stevenson will read from and talk about their work. Bartholomew will relate his observations from his year in basketball-mad Philippines. The Starks, a father-and-son writing team, will preview the upcoming World Cup—both in terms of soccer and for its broader geopolitical implications. And Stevenson will share some of the highlights of more than a century of sportswriting in Harper's.
Varsity Letters
April 21, 2010
May 6: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Binnie Klein, Kathy Orton, and Danny Peary will read from and talk about their work. Klein will describe her unlikely midlife transformation through boxing. Orton will chronicle the unsung hoopsters of the Ivy League, including this March's surprise success from Cornell. And Peary will chronicle the life of former home-run champ Roger Maris.
Varsity Letters
March 24, 2010
April 1: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Lee Lowenfish, Christopher McDougall, and Emma Span will read from and talk about their work. Lowenfish will chronicle the history of baseball's labor wars. McDougall explains his theory that mankind was born to run ultramarathons. And Span will report from the edge of baseball fandom.
Varsity Letters
March 22, 2010
Malcolm Gladwell at Varsity Letters
Malcolm Gladwell doesn't think much of NFL general managers' abilities to draft talented quarterbacks. Click through for videos from Gladwell's appearance at Varsity Letters.
Varsity Letters
March 1, 2010
March 4: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Mark Bechtel, Wright Thompson, and Seth Wickersham will read from and talk about their work. Bechtel is the author of a book about Nascar's historic, rowdy, transformational 1979 season. Thompson is ESPN's master craftsman of long-form sportswriting. And his colleague Wickersham covers the personalities and issues behind the NFL.
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