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Justin Rice of Boston Public Schools Sports Blog featured “Next Up at Fenway”.
Justin created the blog — as an independent journalist — a few years ago. He detailed its genesis in a 2011 interview with Sports Media Guide.
I met him in 2011 at a Fenway High baseball game in Dorchester. Now the blog belongs to the Boston Globe and Justin curates it. He is the go-to guy for anything about BPS sports and his Twitter feed is always entertaining. After the Marathon bombings he had a steady stream of relevant tweets. Full disclosure: Justin read and commented on an early draft of “Next Up.”
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Next Up at Fenway: A Story of High School, Hope and Lindos Sueños tells the true story of Marcos Baez, whose public high school next to Fenway Park—Fenway High—was his best hope of a college education and a better life. Inspired by his daily view of the ballpark and mentored by the Red Sox Foundation, Baez turned his passion for baseball into a love of learning in his quest for a path to college.
As a child, Marcos’ first exposure to baseball came through a neighborhood team, sponsored by the Foundation’s RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) program. As a Fenway High School junior, Marcos was chosen for the Foundation’s Lindos Sueños program, which paired up American and Dominican teens for baseball and community service in the Dominican Republic. From Lindos Sueños, Marcos found his voice for the essay he would use to apply to college. Read more... (221 words, 1 image, estimated 53 secs reading time)
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The best Japanese-American hockey writer in Boston writes about how the NHL lockout gave him time to make pizza for his children, Hana, 6, and Wright, 3.
 Fluto Shinzawa
The Boston Globe’s Fluto Shinzawa does not seem to miss the game as he writes: ”I have never felt the pull of fall as keenly as I have during the lockout. The kitchen is where it feels the sharpest. The oven timer beeps. The food processor hums. Fists pump when I hit the sweet spot of my tomato soup. Curses flow when my apple pie crust balloons and the nutmeg kicks in far too sharply.”
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E:60′s Lisa Salters explains how she got Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson to relax and open up in an interview, no mean feat, in light of Johnson’s painful shyness. Johnson may be the All-Pro “Megatron” on the field, but off the field he had been a blank slate, until he encountered Salters.
 Lisa Salters The interview took place before the season at Johnson’s childhood home near Atlanta, and at his high school.
Salters also explains how she handled an emotional LeSean McCoy in an interview with the Eagles running back.
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Yay!
ForeWord Reviews named “The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central” as its gold medal winner in the adult non-fiction/sports category for books published in 2011.
At a ceremony June 23 at ALA’s Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, ForeWord named 209 Book of the Year Award winners in 54 categories. These books, representing the best independently published works from 2011, were selected by a panel of librarian and bookseller judges.
ForeWord Reviews, a journal dedicated to reviewing independently published books, was established in 1998 and serves as the flagship periodical of booksellers, librarians, agents, and publishing professionals who want to access the best titles from small presses.
Props to University of Nebraska Press for putting its reputation and credibility behind my book.
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