Book Expo America begins in a few hours, and the University of Nebraska Press will be there (booth 3733, if you're interested). Stop by our booth for a sneak peek at our fall season, for freebie titles (numbers are limited, so stop by soon) of forthcoming books, and to meet the UNP marketing department.
Tomorrow, two of our authors, Sue Resnick of Goodbye Wifes and Daughters, and Steve Steinberg of 1921, will sign copies of their books. Steve's signing will be from 10 to 10:30 a.m., and Sue's will run from noon to 12:30.
We'll be posting updates and stopping back by periodically throughout BEA. In the meantime, here's an interview with the authors of 1921 — a title rich in New York history, which is fitting, as BEA is in New York:
How did this book come about?
Lyle
I’d written a couple of books on Yankee history, and I
had it in the back of my mind to write one on the 1921 Yanks winning their
first pennant. My memory gets a bit hazy there, but I remember casually
mentioning it to Steve about five years ago. I knew Steve was a Yankee
historian. A year or so later at a Society for American Baseball Research
(SABR) convention, I think it was Toronto in 2005, Steve asked me if I was
working on the ’21 Yankees book. He said he was thinking of doing one, but if I
was doing it, he would move on to something else. I said I really hadn’t done
anything on it, and if he had started researching it then he should go ahead
and write the book. I’m not sure who suggested we work on it together and
expand it to include the Giants, but we both agreed that would make a much
better book.
Steve
I had done a number of articles on the Yankees of this
era, inc. the 1922 and 1926 pennant races, but not ’21. I was puzzled that—with
all the baseball books written on seasons-no one had done one on 1921. I recall
joking with Lyle at a couple of SABR conventions, as we graciously went back
and forth: “You should do the book on the ’21 Yankees,” and “No, you do it.” In
the meantime, neither of us jumped on it, and I became concerned someone else
would run with it. At some point I recall looking closely at the National
League race of that year and realizing that the pennant race there was as
dramatic as that of the American League. If we would combine our efforts on the
book, we’d have the time and resources to do justice to the entire 1921 season
and both pennant races.
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