Background
Schulian, John was born on January 31, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of John and Estella Katherine (Nielsen) Schulian.
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A report from the true heart of baseball, this anthology leaves behind the bad boys and big names of the major leagues to take readers to the places where the spirit of America’s game resides. These are a veteran sportswriter’s dispatches from the bush leagues and the sandlot, his tributes to the Negro leaguers, mining-town dreamers, and certifiable eccentrics who give baseball its heart and soul, laughter and tears. John Schulian, a long-time Sports Illustrated contributor and former Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist, puts together a portrait of a disappearing America—a place inhabited by star-crossed Negro Leagues slugger Josh Gibson; by a vagabond player still toiling for the Durham Bulls at thirty-six; by the coach who created the Eskimo Pie League for kids in a Utah copper-mining town. When he does venture into the big leagues, Schulian gives us the underdogs and the human touches, from Bill Veeck peg-legging toward retirement as the game’s last maverick team owner, to musings on Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe at Christmas, to Studs Terkel’s reflections on baseball. In the end, though, this collection belongs to the kid at a tryout camp, the washed-out semipro following the game on his car radio, the players who were the toasts of outposts from Roswell to Wisconsin Rapids—and to the readers who keep the spirit of the game alive.
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Schulian, John was born on January 31, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of John and Estella Katherine (Nielsen) Schulian.
Bachelor, University Utah, 1967. Master of Science, Northwestern University, 1968.
Copy editor Salt Lake City Tribune, 1968. Reporter Baltimore Evening Sun, 1970-1975. Sportswriter Washington Post, 1975-1977.
Sports columnist Chicago Daily News, 1977-1978, Chicago Sun-Times, 1978-1984, Philadelphia Daily News, 1984-1986. Staff writer Miami Vice, Universal City, California, 1986-1987, story editor, 1987, The Slap Maxwell Story, North Hollywood, 1987-1988. Executive story editor television series Wiseguy, Hollywood, 1988-1989.
Co-producer television series Midnight Caller, Burbank, 1989-1990, supervising producer, 1990-1991. Co-executive producer television series Reasonable Doubts, 1991-1992. Creative consultant television series The Untouchables, Los Angeles, 1992-1993.
Co-executive producer television series Hercules, Universal City, 1994-1996. Co-creator Xena: Warrior Princess, 1995. Associate producer (documentary) Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right, 1996.
Co-executive producer (television series) Lawless, 1996-1997. Consulting producer (television series) Judge Advocate General, 1999-2000. Writer producer (television series) The Outer Limits, Vancouver, Canada, 2000—2001.
Culture columnist Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.com, 2001—2002. Co-exec producer (television series) Tremors, Universal City, 2002—2003. Special contributor Sports Illustrated, since 1998.
Professional in residence University Utah, 2004.
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Member Pacific Coast League History Society With United States Army, 1968-1970. Member Writers Guild American, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Paula Lynn Ellis, August 20, 1977 (divorced October 1984).