Everybody Is A Star: Q&A With Author Lew Freedman
July 12th, 2010 by Ron Kaplan Leave a reply »Well, perhaps not everybody …
With apologies to Sly and the Family Stone .
In honor of the annual contest—held this year on July 13 in Anaheim—I run this little Q&A with Lew Freedman, author of The Day All the Stars Came Out: Major League Baseball’s First All-star Game, 1933 , (McFarland ).
Bookshelf: What made you pick the first official All-Star game as a topic?
Freedman : I just always thought it was neat how the All-Star game was created with its tie-in to the 1933 World’s Fair and I was always blown away by how many famous names were connected to the game, players and the managers, Connie Mack and John McGraw. I worked at the Chicago Tribune , in the sports department, but if that was any influence it was unconscious.
As someone who reads a large number of baseball books and has done considerable research for my own baseball history books, I just thought it was a worthwhile subject to explore in depth.
Bookshelf: What was the original concept for the Game?
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