Book Readings

Upcoming Book Events!

I will be discussing my new book, THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT, as follows:

USF FORUM
Tuesday, March 2, 3 pm
KUSF (90.3), San Francisco CA

ONLY A GAME with Bill Littlefield
Saturday, March 6, 7 am
WBUR (90.9), Boston MA

FORUM with Michael Krasny
Monday, March 8, 10 am
KQED (88.5 FM), San Francisco CA

NINE SPRING TRAINING CONFERENCE
Friday, March 12, 3 pm
Fiesta Resort Conference Center
2100 S. Priest Dr
Tempe AR

REAL DEAL IN SPORTS
Monday, March 22, 2 pm
KGNU (88.5 FM/​​1390 AM), Boulder CO

UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
Monday, March 29, 11:45 am
3065 Jackson St
San Francisco CA

THE BOOKSMITH
Tuesday, April 6, 7:30 pm
1644 Haight St
San Francisco CA

ELLIOTT BAY BOOKS
Tuesday, April 13, 7:30 pm
Seattle Town Hall (not bookstore)
Eighth Avenue & Seneca St
Seattle WA

FROMM INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
Tuesday, April 27, 12 noon
University of San Francisco
Xavier Hall
San Francisco CA

BOOK PASSAGE
Friday, May 7, 7 pm
51 Tamal Vista
Corte Madera CA

PEGASUS BOOKS
Monday, May 17, 7:30 pm
2349 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley CA

Selected Works

Latest Book
The Empire Strikes Out
How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy & Promoted the American Way Abroad
Mystery Fiction
The Deadly Tools of Ignorance: A Debs Kafka Mystery
A San Francisco murder mystery set in the worlds of academia, baseball and the Catholic Church
Author Events
Book Readings
Listing of upcoming bookstore appearances
Non-Fiction
Baseball & the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender & the National Pastime
Baseball as a mirror of American society
Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims
How U.S. victim policy serves official interests.
Rethinking Peace
Strategies for peace in the post-Cold War era.
The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victomology & Human Rights
American criminal justice from a victim perspective.
The Peace Resource Book
A comprehensive guide to issues, groups, and literature
The Utopian Impulse
The utopian tradition in the early twenty-first century
Victims of the System: Crime Victims & Compensation in American Politics & Criminal Justice
Victim compensation as symbolic politics
American Democracy Debated
Introduction to American government instructor's manual
Other Writings
"Field of Dreams"
Writing my debut mystery novel
Academic Essays
Listing of academic essays and articles
Baseball Essays
Short works on baseball
Non-Fiction Journal
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
A transnational quarterly of peace, human rights and development
Short Story
"The Secret Life of Leon Trotsky"
What we don't know about the Russian revolutionary
Works in Progress
Books in Progress
The Empire Strikes Out; Amsterdamned; Sold on Murder; The Legacy of Baseball
Recommended
Good Books
Fiction and non-fiction books I recommend