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Leigh Montville

Leigh Montville

Leigh Montville

Becoming Manny will be released on February 05, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Feb 05, 2011
Becoming Manny is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 05, 2011
Manute will be released on January 01, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Jan 01, 2011
Manute is now available in Trade Paperback
Jan 01, 2011
Becoming Manny will be released on March 10, 2009 in eBook
Mar 10, 2009
Becoming Manny is now available in eBook
Mar 10, 2009
Excerpt:
Prologue from Becoming Manny
Feb 06, 2009
At The Altar Of Speed will be released on July 01, 2004 in eAudio
Jul 01, 2004
At The Altar Of Speed is now available in eAudio
Jul 01, 2004

Authors on the Web

Newsday, May 17, 2012
...of today's top sports biographers, it's headlined by Howard Bryant (ESPN), Jane Leavy (The Washington Post), Leigh Montville (Sports Illustrated), Jonathan Eig (The Wall Street Journal), Mark Kriegel (Fox Sports) and Laura Hillenbrand (American...
Boston Magazine, April 6, 2012
...Hurst, Jimmy Piersall, Pumpsie Green, Mike Lowell, and Bill “Spaceman” Lee. Members of the press like Dan Shaughnessy, Leigh Montville, Jerry Trupiano, and Tom Caron also offer their marginally more objective perspective. The forward by Johnny Pesky...
Macon Telegraph, April 4, 2012
...loss. Not all of "Damn Yankees" is so nuanced; some of it is simply fun. In "Media Babe," Leigh Montville imagines Babe Ruth as a contemporary figure, hounded by the press, exposed on Twitter, his private excesses part of the feeding frenzy of what...
Los Angeles Times, March 31, 2012
...loss. Not all of "Damn Yankees" is so nuanced; some if it is simply fun. In "Media Babe," Leigh Montville imagines Babe Ruth as a contemporary figure, hounded by the press, exposed on Twitter, his private excesses part of the feeding frenzy of what...
Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2012
...former senior editor at Sports Illustrated. Included in the book are excellent pieces by Pete Dexter, Jane Leavy, Leigh Montville, Ulin writes.  Love 'em or hate 'em, the Yankees always make for fascinating reading. And Chris Erskine, our Fan of...
Anniston Star, March 1, 2012
...Evel — The High Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legendby Leigh Montville; Doubleday, 2011; 398 pages; $27.50Leigh Montville, a premier sportswriter, has as the subject of his latest book one of the goofiest, most...
On Milwaukee, February 15, 2012
...sports journalism even at that age, but the photographs brought the words of the legendary writers to life. Leigh Montville, Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman, Jack McCallum, Ron Fimrite, Frank Deford, Alexander Wolff, and Steve Wulf were just some of the names...
Anniston Star, March 1, 2012
...Evel — The High Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legendby Leigh Montville; Doubleday, 2011; 398 pages; $27.50Leigh Montville, a premier sportswriter, has as the subject of his latest book one of the goofiest, most...
Zimbio, January 28, 2012
...by Ted 'Golden Voice' Williams drops in May. Ted... Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville , Philip Bosco (52) 26 used...
BronxBanterBlog.com, October 11, 2011
...to the kind of sports writing that enriched newspapers when guys like Dave Kindred, Mike Lupica, David Israel, Leigh Montville, Tony Kornheiser, Tom Boswell and I were turned loose with our portable typewriters. It was my great good fortune to work in an...
UCONN | Women's Basketball, August 7, 2011
...Courant was an accomplishment and a privilege. The jobs were rare and greatly sought after. Andy why not? Leigh Montville, Jim Murray and Claire Smith were just a few that once walked through our corridors. And when you landed one, you felt a sense of...
Toledo Newspaper, July 28, 2011
...When author Leigh Montville learned he was being interviewed for Toledo Free Press Star, he immediately asked about the Mud Hens and took a moment to remember their old home, Ned Skeldon Stadium...
Books on The Knob, June 15, 2011
...NBC, HBO), Richard Ben Cramer, Pete Hamill, Tony Kornheiser (ESPN), Tom Boswell (Washington Post), Dave Kindred (Washington Post), Leigh Montville (Sports Illustrated), William Nack (Sports Illustrated), Joe Posnanski (Sports Illustrated), Jane Leavy,...