Podcast Interview

If you love baseball, you ought to subscribe to the terrific podcast, Baseball by the Book, hosted by longtime Sporting News editor Justin McGuire. Listen to my conversation with Justin, as we talk writing for kids, researching a novel, and lots of Milwaukee baseball trivia. (Bonnie Brewer, anyone?)

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Radio Interview on WUWM’s “Lake Effect”

I was lucky enough to be interviewed on Milwaukee’s NPR station, WUWM, about the real-life inspiration for The Rhino in Right Field. Washington Park, the minor league Brewers, growing up Greek, and girls’ baseball–it’s all here. I hope you like it! When Baseball Practice Was at the Milwaukee Zoo

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Then and Now: What the Washington Park Zoo looks like today

Not too long ago, I visited Washington Park in Milwaukee to see what’s left of the old zoo. It was abandoned in 1960, when Milwaukee County opened a new zoo on Bluemound Road. But Washington Park is still there, at the corner of 47th and Vliet streets, and the southwest corner of the park, where

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