Shut Out; A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
New York: Routledge, 2002. Advanced Uncorrected Proof--pre first printing. Trade paperback. vii, [1], 248, [4] pages. Footnotes. No Illustrations, Table of Contents, or Index in this Advanced Uncorrected Proof copy. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: To Rick, Thank you for the support! Howard Bryant. Howard Bryant (born November 25, 1968) is an American author, sports journalist, and broadcaster. He writes for ESPN and ESPN The Magazine, ESPN, and appears r on ESPN Radio. He is a panelist on The Sports Reporters and since 2006 a sports correspondent for Weekend Edition on National Public Radio. Bryant began his career in 1991 with the Oakland Tribune covering sports and technology, before moving to the San Jose Mercury News from 1995 to 2001. In San Jose, Bryant covered the telecommunications industry before returning to sports to cover the Oakland Athletics. He then reported for the Bergen Record, covering the New York Yankees, before joining the Boston Herald from 2002 to 2005. Bryant joined the Washington Post, where he covered the Washington Redskins from 2005 to 2007. He joined ESPN in August 2007. In 2002, Bryant published his first book, Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, which won the CASEY Award for the best baseball book of 2002 and was a finalist for the Society for American Baseball Research's Seymour Medal. In 2005, he published Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball, which was New York Times Notable Book of 2005. The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron was published in 2010, won the CASEY Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010. More