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	3 Nights in Darkness - What Buzz Bissinger's new book fails to see about sportswriting. By Josh Levin
		Buzz Bissinger writes in the preface to 3 Nights in August that it "was not conceived as a response to Moneyball." No matter how it was conceived, his new baseball book came out screaming bloody murder.
		Bissinger challenges Moneyball's analytical argument with unverifiable, splenetic opinions.
		Bissinger stalks La Russa in the dugout and clubhouse, filling up his notebook as the manager massages the egos of bench players and frets over pinch-hitting appearances.
	www.slate.com /id/2118325 (895 words)

	'FRIDAY' DOESN'T SIDELINE THE TRUTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger talks about the sacrifices that were made to keep "Friday Night Lights" at least semi-faithful to his book, the last scene in the film is the first thing that comes up.
		Bissinger is pleased, and a little surprised, that along with getting the finish mostly right, the movie that finally arrived in theaters this weekend captures so much of the mood of his book -- which focuses on the disposable nature of teenage football heroes.
		Bissinger said he didn't know the movie was going forward until he got a call from Berg, who put the movie's star, Billy Bob Thornton, on the phone.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/10/PKG6R92L6D1.DTL&type=printable (1062 words)

	CardNilly » Blog Archive » Buzz Hearts Albert
		Buzz Bissinger: The story there is that I was asked by The Mag to spend some time with the Cardinals when they were in Houston and really focus on Albert Pujols and what makes him great.
		Buzz Bissinger: To put together the kind of numbers that he has put together in his first five years in the leauge, I don’t care if he is 25 or 55 or 100.
		Buzz Bissinger: I have been a journalist for over 30 years now and walking into a clubhouse at the beginning is like walking on a bed of hot coals.
	cardnilly.com /?p=190 (4567 words)

	The Pennsylvania Gazette: "Buzz Bissenger"
		Buzz Bissinger, C'76, self -- described "DP pack rat," Pulitzer Prize -- winning reporter with The Philadelphia Inquirer, and author of the bestseller Friday Night Lights, spent five and a half years reporting and writing A Prayer for the City, his epic story of Philadelphia during the first term of Mayor Edward G. Rendell, C'65.
		Bissinger was granted unprecedented access to City Hall for the book, able to come and go largely at will and practically sharing an office with Rendell's chief of staff David Cohen, L'81.
		Bissinger: The impetus for the book came when I was a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, from 1981 to 1988, and covered politics.
	www.upenn.edu /gazette/0298/buzz.html (1825 words)

	Buzz to Buzz Off?
		Bissinger first publicly aired his grievances at a Philly Mag event at the Barnes and Noble on Rittenhouse Square earlier this month.
		Reached by phone for further comment, Bissinger said that his disappointment with Street — so profound that he’s considering leaving the city — is the subject of his column in the May issue.
		Bissinger admits that he’s glad to see a commitment to addressing urban blight, as evidenced by Street’s vow to remove 40,000 abandoned cars from the streets.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/042700/cb.onmedia1.shtml (504 words)

	Grid classic finally arrives on screen
		Berg was sitting with Bissinger and one of the film's editors, Colby Parker Jr., in a hotel suite last Wednesday, eating lunch and waiting for the turf below to be properly lit so they can do some TV interviews to promote the movie.
		As Bissinger has said, it's a writer's - or a filmmaker's - lucky curse to be in the right place at the right tragedy.
		Bissinger had seen a lot of scripts for Friday Night Lights and a lot of directors attached to the project over the years.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1008lightsside08.html (777 words)

	Press Release for Three Nights in August published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		Bissinger gives us a portrayal of the national pastime that is more complex — and more human — than any that has come before as he examines countless facets of the game, including:
		Buzz Bissinger is the best-selling author of Friday Night Lights, which was named the best sports book of the past twenty-five years by ESPN and was recently made into a hit movie.
		Buzz Bissinger is a master of focus, zeroing in on the battle than unfolds minute-by-minute beneath the deceptively placid surface of the game.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /booksellers/press_release/bissinger (2300 words)

	Author Of "Friday Night Lights" To Speak At Mount Union College / Featured Stories / News / Mount Union ...
		Buzz Bissinger, one of the nation's most honored and distinguished writers and author of the book Friday Night Lights will present a convocation at Mount Union College on Thursday, September 8 at 10:30 a.m.
		Bissinger graduated from Andover in 1972 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1976.
		Bissinger has also received critical acclaim for A Prayer for the City, hailed as a classic on politics and urban America, and Three Nights in August, about major league baseball and the timeless beauty of the game through the eyes of its most innovative manager, St. Louis Cardinals skipper Tony La Russa.
	www.muc.edu /news/featured_stories/author_of_friday_night_lights_to_speak_at_mount_union_college (569 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager - ...
		Bissinger eschews the usual method of writing about baseball in the context of a season or a career, choosing instead to dissect the game by carefully watching one three-game series between the Cardinals and Cubs in late 2003.
		Bissinger (Friday Night Lights) takes in a three-game series between the rival Cubs and Cardinals, with enviable access to the baseball mind of St. Louis manager Tony LaRussa, once a wonder boy among the generation of old-style "gut" managers and now an elder statesman to whiz-kid sabermatricians.
		Bissinger's account ranges widely over La Russa's four decades in baseball: He started off as a player but, realizing he wasn't star material, began to badger his managers to tell him their secrets and took up the trade while still in his 20s.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=1565119754&itm=7 (823 words)

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		But Bissinger goes so far as to name names, assembling a sort of Schindler's List in reverse, itemizing the bylines that, in his opinion, should be sent to the chamber.
		"Somebody has to name names--newspapers name names all the time," says Bissinger, a Vanity Fair contributing editor, who manned the Inky newsroom from 1981 to 1988 and is now massaging a script for a TV pilot with one of the executive producers from The West Wing.
		Or at least to some school where he learns that the purpose of a column isn't to hit a nice little shot down the middle of the fairway but to go for the green each and every time with passion and conviction and anger.
	www.philadelphiaweekly.com /print_friendly.php?id=4813 (518 words)

	Survival of a city at heart of 'Prayer' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bissinger's city is Philadelphia, and its mayor and Bissinger's five heroes of the book's subtitle do battle in the ways anyone living in a big city will recognize either from personal experience or from parsing the local news.
		Bissinger recounts the union saga and less consequential scenes in Rendell's first term -- he wins easy re-election in the fall of '95 -- with rich inside-the-room detail, narrative drive and an appreciation for what is often as much comic opera as it is serious municipal governance.
		But Bissinger also knows that his guy, certainly, and perhaps a new generation of mayors like him may be the last, best hope if our big cities are to flourish as places where people can safely live, work and play.
	www.jsonline.com /news/sunday/books/0111bk.buz.stm (648 words)

	Premiere Speakers Bureau
		BUZZ BISSiNGER is one of the nation's most honored and distinguished writers.
		Bissinger has been a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer where, with two other reporters, he won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting for a six-part series on the Philadelphia Court System.
		Bissinger is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine, where his range of subjects has included Pete Rose; the brutal killing of a gay soldier at an army barracks in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, and the first in-depth profile of Los Angles police detective Mark Fuhrman in the aftermath of the O.J. Simpson trial.
	premierespeakers.com /4011/index.cfm (534 words)

	Buzzing Buzz
		The interview with Buzz Bissinger in the April 27 City Paper regarding his piece in this month’s Philadelphia magazine articulates well the mood of that portion of Philadelphia’s electorate that remains uncomfortable with the results of last November’s Mayoral election.
		Bissinger notes that John Street brings to the office of mayor a very different personality, different strengths and different priorities.
		Bissinger’s Philadelphia magazine piece hangs on an evocative literary conceit: a stroll from Chestnut Hill down Germantown Avenue to the idyllic 19th century Morris Arboretum, and then to an unfinished piece of bridge reconstruction and the temptation to flee the city’s high taxes by crossing to Montgomery County.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/050400/sl.slant.shtml (600 words)

	Three Nights in August by Buzz Bissinger
		He's the most strategically adept and arguably the smartest manager in baseball, and he still believes that games are won not by statistics, but by the hearts and minds of the players.
		And Bissinger's laser-beam focus uncovers surprising truths about the pathology of slumps, the art of beanball retaliation, the eccentricities of pitchers, and the timelessness of the game.
		Buzz Bissinger is the author of Friday Night Lights, a classic about the obsession for football in Odessa, Texas.
	www.highbridgeaudio.com /thniinaubybu.html (417 words)

	STLtoday - Entertainment - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		So, the fact that sports author Buzz Bissinger - who wrote "Friday Night Lights," a story of Texas prep football and one of the most highly regarded sports books in the past 25 years - manages to squeeze a heaping portion of personality from La Russa is enough to entice local readers.
		And the additional fact that Bissinger turned his unprecedented access to La Russa into a solid, engaging term paper on intermediate and advanced baseball strategy is more than enough to please any fan of the national pastime.
		And Bissinger's mini-profile of Darryl Kile, who died during the 2002 season, is as eloquent as any sports passages in recent memory.
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/book/story/DE322755F96935FC86256FD70013A76C?OpenDocument&tetl=1 (843 words)

	Author Of "Friday Night Lights" Presents Dewald Lecture And Convocation At Mount Union College / News / Mount ...
		Bissinger explained how he pursued writing a book about high school football and what he learned during the process to the audience, comprised mostly of freshmen students who were required to read Friday Night Lights as part of a summer reading program.
		A town that rose and fell with the prices of oil, Odessa was, as Bissinger said, "in the middle of nowhere." Avoiding desegregation until the early 1980s, racism was considered a way of life and education took a back seat to athletics.
		Bissinger then told the tale of Boobie Miles, an African-American senior on the 1988 Permian Panther football team who was considered the best running back in the state of Texas that year.
	www.muc.edu /content/view/full/23354 (1259 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› Three Nights in August, by Buzz Bissinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		We watch from the dugout as the St. Louis Cardinals battle their archrival Chicago Cubs for first place, and we uncover delicious surprises about the psychology of the clutch, the eccentricities of pitchers, the rise of video, and the complex art of retaliation when a batter is hit by a pitch.
		Through the lens of these games, Bissinger examines the dramatic changes that have overtaken baseball: from the decline of base stealing to the difficulty of motivating players to the rise of steroid use.
		Buzz Bissinger shows how strong of a manager La Russa is and gives us a glimpse of how difficult it is goes to manage a baseball team.
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0618405445.html (1971 words)

	A PRAYER FOR THE CITY. By Buzz Bissinger
		The beauty of this book is that Bissinger, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, did not have to reconstruct these scenes.
		Bissinger never gets bogged in municipal minutiae, and his narrative crackles with descriptive force and the desperation of real people trying to survive.
		Bissinger's writing, sparse and urgent, always shines, even as he explores the social trends and attitudes, housing and tax policies that have built suburbia and sucked the life out of cities.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/ae/books/9798/02/01/prayer.html (589 words)

	The Inquirer and Mirror -- Nantucket's Newspaper Since 1821
		Such was the case with Nantucket in the mid-1960s, and it was the environment in which then-Inquirer and Mirror reporter and island resident Buzz Bissinger was surrounded.
		One temple Bissinger passed was the $5.6 million, 19,000-plus capacity Ratliff Stadium, built in 1982 in Odessa, Texas to serve as the home field of the perennially successful Permian High School Panthers.
		The book had been a personal and professional journey for Bissinger, who, while he was not so much involved directly with the making of the movie, had invested his name and credibility in the film.
	www.ack.net /1123imfpstory.html (1119 words)

	CNN.com - Inside 'a beautiful, complex game' - May 9, 2005
		Bissinger makes the occasional detour to sketch a handful of Cardinal players and some of the managerial staff -- notably La Russa's right hand, pitching coach Dave Duncan -- but, in the end, it's La Russa's book.
		Bissinger emerged from "Three Nights in August" with a great deal of respect for La Russa, though he still disagrees with the manager on some issues -- notably La Russa's defense of retired slugger Mark McGwire.
		Bissinger said he saw "no signs" of steroids in the clubhouse -- "I'm convinced it's not happening with the Cardinals" -- but "I don't agree with Tony with the stance on McGwire.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/books/05/09/buzz.bissinger (1090 words)

	Amazon.com: Three Nights in August: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bissinger clearly read Daniel Okrent's "Nine Innings" before he sat down to write, for Okrent's book is a detailed look at a single 1982 game, with analysis of personalities, baseball lore, tactics, and psychology sprinkled in as the game goes along.
		Bissinger clearly knows his audience, since the Cardinals big year wasn't 2003 and the season covered by this narrative, but rather 2004 when the team went to the World Series.
		Bissinger is a bit rah-rah in his devotion to La Russa, who paid him to write this book, but the cheering --like the book-- is all in fun.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618405445?v=glance (2501 words)

	Lights in August (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As Bissinger portrays him, La Russa seems like a throwback to an era that was, or at least that was perceived to be, a more innocent time for the game.
		Bissinger will also be attending a March 7 media dinner in Jupiter, Fla., where the Cardinals hold their spring training.
		Bissinger is known best for his darker portrayal of another sport, high school football, in Friday Night Lights.
	www.thebookstandard.com /bookstandard/reviews/books_in_news_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000807447 (504 words)

	Shattered Glass Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For this reason, as Ray adapted Buzz Bissinger's Vanity Fair article for the screen, he conducted interviews with many of the key players from the time, and referred constantly to the transcripts of those interviews.
		As informed by Kelly and Bissinger, written by Ray and portrayed by Hayden Christensen, Glass was popular among and friendly with his co-workers.
		Buzz Bissinger graduated from Penn in 1976, but was asked back to the campus to speak at the annual Daily Pennsylvanian banquet 18 years later.
	desiringhayden.net /aboutproduction.html (2731 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Meet the Writers
		Buzz Bissinger scored a touchdown with his 1990 debut Friday Night Lights, the true-life account of a small town's obsession with high school football.
		Bissinger captures baseball's strategic and emotional essences through a point-blank account of one three-game series viewed through the keen eyes of legendary manager Tony La Russa.
		Bissinger's bestseller highlights the bitter struggle between sports and education in Odessa, Texas, as well as in high schools and colleges nationwide.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?userid=uS1KBr9C10&cid=1066040 (380 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Prayer for the City: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From that moment on, Buzz Bissinger was there to record his successes and failures.
		Bissinger explains, in part, why people leave the city for the suburbs and how the Federal government's urban policy has favored suburban sprawl and encouraged a white flight during the past 50 years.
		Bissinger doesn't pull any punches in this area: he talks not only about corrupt cops, but about the leaders in Philadelphia's ethnic communities who refuse to cooperate with Rendell because they'd rather reap political gain by publicly parting with him.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/067942198X (763 words)

	Bissinger0714
		Pulitzer Prize-winner Buzz Bissinger, a former Inquirer and Mirror reporter, will return to Nantucket Monday to speak about his literary career.
		Former Inquirer and Mirror staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winner Buzz Bissinger got a first-hand glimpse into the day-to-day life of a major league ball club when he spent the 2003 season with the St. Louis Cardinals under manager Tony LaRussa.
		This spring Bissinger released his third book, “Three Nights in August,” detailing some of the most intricate strategies of the game, while providing the reader a glimpse into the profound effects the game can have on those involved.
	www.ack.net /Bissinger0714.html (834 words)

	A MYTH REPEATED: A REPLY TO VANITY FAIR AND THE F.O.P.
		Bissinger dismisses the idea that the shooter could have been a third person at the scene, then fails to tell his readers that the prosecution withheld from the defense for thirteen years the fact that the driver’s identification of a third man was found on the dead officer.
		If Bissinger really wants to play investigative reporter, he might try to explain how a copper bullet jacket was found at the scene when the police ballistics expert testified that the bullets in both Faulkner’s gun and Jamal’s gun did not have copper jackets.
		Bissinger also assures us that the massive predominance of Blacks on death row in Pennsylvania "has nothing directly to do with the facts of the case." Apparently for Bissinger, racial prejudice exists only in the ethereal realm of statistics, and never impinges on the lives of actual Black defendants.
	www.iacenter.org /folder04/myth_rep.htm (3704 words)

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