2: Amy Bass, author, "One Goal"

09/15/20 • 29 min

Sports Writers Inc. with JD: Sports Writers Talk Sports Writing

Amy Bass, author of "One Goal: A Coach, a team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together". The town is Lewiston, Maine, and the game is high school soccer. In the early 2000s, Lewiston became home to thousands of refugees from Somalia and the integration was not without friction. The story is about the boys soccer team at Lewiston High School in 2015, which was made up of a majority of Somali students, and their quest for a state title.

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1: Brad Balukjian, author, "The Wax Pack"

Brad Balukjian talks to JD about his book "The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife". In the summer of 2015, Brad opened a pack of Topps baseball cards from 1986 and set out on the road to meet the players on the cards. The result is part travel memoir, part baseball history, and all a great read.

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3: Chad Finn of The Boston Globe

Chad Finn is a sports columnist for the Boston Globe, where he has worked for the better part of two decades, and also covers sports media for the paper. He and JD discuss his career, the sports media landscape in the time of Covid-19, and the rise of advanced analytics in baseball. Follow Chad on Twitter @GlobeChadFinn