This past weekend, NPR's Only a Game chatted with author John Schulian about his book Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us.

In Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand, Schulian, a much-honored sportswriter for nearly forty years, takes us back to a time when our greatest athletes stood before us as human beings, not remote gods. In this compelling collection, Schulian paints prose portraits to remind fans of what today’s cloistered stars won’t share with them.

The review says that”…Schulian deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as some of his heroes…”
 

Click here to listen to the interview.