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Allen Barra is an American journalist and author of sports books. He is a contributing editor of American Heritage magazine, and regularly writes about sports for The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. He has also written for The New York Times and The New York Observer, and was formerly a columnist for Salon. He formerly blogged on sports for the Village Voice website. He frequently contributes to Major League Baseball Radio and The Daily Beast.
Personal
Barra, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, currently lives in South Orange, New Jersey.
Publications
His 2009 book on Yogi Berra — Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee — was praised as "sturdy," "well-written," and "thorough" by the San Francisco Chronicle, but The New York Times thought it too enthralled with its subject.
In 2010, Barra wrote Rickwood Field: A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark.
Perception
Barra was one of the few sportswriters to agree with Rush Limbaugh that Donovan McNabb had been overrated by sports journalists due to reasons related to McNabb's race.
In 2009, he was the target of a widely read critique at the website Deadspin, which targeted Barra's subjective adoration for Derek Jeter. Barra then responded, five years later, in an article for Salon, that his argument was based on the premise that Jeter contributes in "ways that don’t necessarily show up in a box score," rather than his argument from the piece that, "many observers think the primary reason (for the Yankees' success in 2009) is Mr. Jeter," rather than giving credit to the achievements of the team as a whole (six other members of the starting lineup had an OPS over 120+).
References
- Barra, Allen. "Allen Barra". The Atlantic.
- ^ "'Yogi Berra,' by Allen Barra, a definitive look". SFGate. April 7, 2009.
- ^ "Allen Barra | Authors". Macmillan. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
- Barra, Allen. "Why I Write...Allen Barra". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
- ^ Barra, Allen (July 26, 2010). Rickwood Field: A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393069334.
- Mahler, Jonathan (May 2009). "Book Review - 'Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee,' by Allen Barra". The New York Times.
- Barra, Allen (October 2, 2003). "Rush was right about Donovan McNabb". Slate Magazine.
- Junior (September 16, 2009). "Jesus Is The Derek Jeter Of Christianity". Deadspin.
- ^ "Shut up, stats nerds and haters: You're wrong about Derek Jeter". salon.com. February 14, 2014.
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