Education
Bryan Di Salvatore attended Yale University and Rhode Island School of Design. He got a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Montana.
1978
Bryan Di Salvatore (center), on the surf trail with friends Chook and Adi. 1978. Photo: William Finnegan
Bryan Di Salvatore at work in his garret. Photo by Mike Lawler
Bryan Di Salvatore and Jerry Aoki.
New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Bryan Di Salvatore attended Yale University.
2 College St, Providence, RI 02903, United States
Bryan Di Salvatore attended Rhode Island School of Design.
32 Campus Dr, Missoula, MT 59812, United States
Bryan Di Salvatore got a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Montana.
(Text and photos as a result of two road trips taken with ...)
Text and photos as a result of two road trips taken with Lonnie Umphlett, a tractor-trailer driver. What was it like? Well, there's garden-variety road weariness, floods in Chicago, blizzards in Colorado, road-obliterating thunderstorms in western Kansas, bone-jarring stretches of interstate in Pennsylvania and cities in general.
https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Runners-Americas-Long-haul-Truckers/dp/B0007320IK/?tag=2022091-20
1988
("This is a grand book - vehement, scholarly, funny, exube...)
"This is a grand book - vehement, scholarly, funny, exuberant, and artfully evocative of the man and his time. Bryan Di Salvatore is one of the finest writers of nonfiction in America." - Ian Frazier One of baseball's earliest stars, John Montgomery Ward (1860-1925) was a formidable talent. Today, he stands alone as the only player with more than 100 wins as a pitcher and 2,000 hits as a batter. Ward played at a time when baseball was evolving from a pastime into a business, and his most important legacy may have been his role "in establishing modern organized baseball" (as his plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame reads). He organized the sport's first union, the Brotherhood of Professional Ball Players, and in 1890 led a revolt against National League owners by creating a third major league - The Players' League - presaging a century of bitter conflict between players and owners. In this engaging biography, Bryan Di Salvatore captures the brash energy of this larger-than-life sports figure and offers a keenly observed narrative about baseball's often troubled coming of age.
https://www.amazon.com/Clever-Base-Ballist-Life-Times-Montgomery/dp/080186562X/?tag=2022091-20
1995
Bryan Di Salvatore attended Yale University and Rhode Island School of Design. He got a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Montana.
Bryan Di Salvatore is a writer living in Missoula, Montana. His book "Truck Stop", written with Marc F. Wise, was part of the “Author and Artist” series of the University Press of Mississippi. Wise had a freshly-minted Rhode Island School of Design degree in photography when he enrolled in tractor-trailer school, then spent six years as an over-the-road driver, beginning in 1987. Di Salvatore wrote the truck’s-eye-view text that accompanies Wise’s photos of trucks, truckers, truck stops, cafes, and lounges he discovered while traveling cross-country.
Di Salvatore’s "A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward" is a biography of Ward (1860-1925) and his influence on the sport over nearly two decades as a player, leader of a players’ strike in 1890, and as a manager and team owner. Sports Illustrated reviewer Ron Fimrite called the book an “immaculately researched but sometimes too cleverly written profile.” In an interview with Random House online, Di Salvatore was asked if the book is also intended for non-fans. He responded that “this book is about baseball in the same way that a biography of Charles Lindbergh is about flying. I don’t want this to be a baseball book only for baseball fans... There are probably fewer raw numbers and statistics in my entire book than there are on a single page of a metropolitan sports section. In a way, I have tried to be like an anthropologist from another plant describing something so familiar to us that we don’t even think about it - that something is baseball.”
Burt Solomon wrote in the New York Times Book Review that Di Salvatore was unable to learn much about Ward’s childhood and adolescence, his home and family life, hobbies, friends, or pitching style. “Di Salvatore is interested in the college life of Ward’s time and on the origins and early days of baseball. The book includes some strong passages, like his lovely description of Ward’s Pennsylvania hometown (’Bellefonte is peaceful as a napping dog. It also has a high opinion of itself.’).” Solomon added that Di Salvatore “also is prone to fits of purple prose, abrupt shifts in tone and metaphors that get out of hand.”
Di Salvatore said he finds annoying the baseball myth of the “golden age,” an undefined period when players were interested not in money but only in playing the game. “Players have always been interested in money,” said Di Salvatore. “There has been, since 1871, when the first professional baseball league was formed, a rushing stream of labor acrimony. It is not, in short, a new phenomenon, but most everyone - the average fan, most sportswriters and baseball television personalities, and certainly the public relations staff of major league baseball and the individual teams - prefers to brush this aspect of the game under the table.” Di Salvatore pointed out that there have been seven leagues in American baseball and that five of them “were destroyed by the ‘baseball establishment’ and the sixth - the American League - would have been destroyed had the National League had its way. The history of baseball is, in many ways, nothing but a bare-knuckle fight among financiers and magnates.”
("This is a grand book - vehement, scholarly, funny, exube...)
1995(Text and photos as a result of two road trips taken with ...)
1988Di Salvatore once said: "My wife calls me a hermit with social skills. She doesn’t know the half of it: sometimes my own company flat out pisses me off. People grate on me."