The Bookshelf Conversations #188: Ben Yagoda

February 5, 2025 · 0 comments

A bit of a departure here.

Ben Yagoda has not written a book about baseball (yet). Nor has he written a song or made a film about the game.

But he is a super fan and has written reviews of others’ books about the game.

Close enough for jazz.

I wanted to speak with him on a more technical level, about the writing more than the sport. As a former English professor whose focus was journalism (Jeff Pearlman was the sports editor of the school paper when Yagoda was at the University of Delaware), I wanted to get his take on the process of writing more than the game itself.

In the words of Mr. Spock, the Conversation was fascinating.

And the audio version:

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