Background
Allen Barra was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1720 2nd Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Allen Barra attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
(From baseball to boxing, golf to ice hockey, the infamous...)
From baseball to boxing, golf to ice hockey, the infamous "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and the Black Sox scandal to brutal bare-knuckle fighting, this definitive and entertaining history offers the authentic play by play on what really went down in the most argued-about sports events in history.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786880538/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(Tells the entire story of Earp's amazing life, explaining...)
Tells the entire story of Earp's amazing life, explaining why he became a legend among his contemporaries and how Hollywood reinvented him first as a hero and then as a scoundrel. 30,000 first printing.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786705620/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Allen Barra is back with Brushbacks and Knockdowns, his n...)
Allen Barra is back with Brushbacks and Knockdowns, his newest retrospective of baseball history and folklore. Barra, whose weekly sports column "By The Numbers" earned him millions of readers in The Wall Street Journal, offers solid answers based on exhaustive research and analysis.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031232247X/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(In a follow-up to his Clearing the Bases - Sports Illustr...)
In a follow-up to his Clearing the Bases - Sports Illustrated’s book of the year for 2002 - syndicated columnist Allen Barra turns his eye from America’s pastime to America’s passion. In this collection of essays, Barra delves into the gridiron’s all-time greats, some of the sport’s enduring controversies, and suggests new ways to think about the game that holds our attention from August through January, every year. Barra turns his aggressively intelligent writing to the Heisman Trophy and its controversies and demonstrates why the Bowl Championship Series has not and cannot work. He explains how the infamous tie game between Notre Dame and Michigan State in 1966 changed football forever.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005CWJMU0/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(The explosive biography of the greatest college football ...)
The explosive biography of the greatest college football coach in history. When Paul William "Bear" Bryant died on January 26, 1983, it was the lead story on the all three networks' evening news. New York City newspapers reported his death on their front pages. Three days later, America watched in awe as an estimated quarter of a million mourners lined the fifty-five mile stretch from Tuscaloosa to a Birmingham cemetery to pay their respects as his three-mile-long funeral cortege drove by. Bryant's passing was noted with the kind of reverence our country reserved for statesmen or military leaders, though Paul "Bear" Bryant had insisted for much of his life that he was "just a football coach."
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018JZPTYO/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(Sports journalist Allen Barra, whose weekly sports column...)
Sports journalist Allen Barra, whose weekly sports column, "By the Numbers," has earned him millions of readers in The Wall Street Journal and whose outspoken opinions on Salon.com are discussed regularly on National Public Radio, takes on baseball's toughest arguments. Using stats and methods he developed during his ongoing tenure at The Wall Street Journal, Barra takes you to the heart of baseball's ultimate question, Who's the Best?, in this, the ultimate baseball debate book.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FA5Q7M/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(The extraordinary social history of Rickwood Field become...)
The extraordinary social history of Rickwood Field becomes the story of baseball itself, gloriously evoked for the centennial of America’s oldest ballpark. While America has changed dramatically over the last hundred years, Rickwood Field, the pride of Birmingham, Alabama, has remained fixed in time. Best-selling baseball writer Allen Barra journeyed to his native Alabama to capture the glories of a century of baseball lore.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U6YKRU/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in ...)
Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part clown, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player (fourteen pennants, ten World Series, 3 MVPs) in baseball history. In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi’s remarkable life as never seen before with nearly one hundred photos and countless “Yogi-isms,” and offers hilarious insights into many of baseball’s greatest moments. From calling Don Larsen’s perfect game to managing the 1973 “You Gotta Believe” New York Mets, Yogi’s life and career are a virtual cutaway view of our national pastime in the twentieth century.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017RXE8FA/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny pa...)
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels - and lifelong friendship - between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007MDDSUM/?tag=2022091-20
2013
Allen Barra was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
Allen Barra attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Allen Barra works as a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, a contributor to periodicals and Web sites, including the New York Times, Village Voice, Slate, and Salon.com. He also frequently appears on Major League Baseball Radio. Barra's writings are notable for the rigorous yet unorthodox ways in which he looks at athletics.
(From baseball to boxing, golf to ice hockey, the infamous...)
1995(In a follow-up to his Clearing the Bases - Sports Illustr...)
2004(Tells the entire story of Earp's amazing life, explaining...)
1998(Sports journalist Allen Barra, whose weekly sports column...)
2008(Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny pa...)
2013(The extraordinary social history of Rickwood Field become...)
2010(Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in ...)
2010(Allen Barra is back with Brushbacks and Knockdowns, his n...)
2004(The explosive biography of the greatest college football ...)
2006Quotations: "I've never asked myself the question of why I write, for fear that I wouldn’t be able to answer it."
Quotes from others about the person
"There are few who write [about sports] so entertainingly or instructively as [Allen] Barra." - Paul Kaplan