Before Bobby Shane Grew a Mustache
August 12, 2018Phillip Martin Before Bobby Shane Grew a Mustache and Became Evil Until he hurt himself, my father was an infielder. Not anyone whose name you would recognize, unless you really know your baseball. An infielder for Cleveland, back in the …
August 4, 2018 Vlog: Blazing Saddles
August 4, 2018Vlog 8-4-18 at 5.53 AM from Philip Martin on Vimeo.
Deconstructing the legend of a hit king
July 2, 2018A dozen years ago I wrote about a four-volume biography of Adrian Constantine “Cap” Anson, a 19th-century baseball player some believe is the most important figure ever — bigger than Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson. Anson was not only …
Walker Percy’s Blues
April 23, 2018Used to be a seeker, used to be a dreamer Now I guess I been woke Let in on the cosmic joke I’m trying to fix the things I broke You can be an unbeliever or have faith in the …
Karen Martin reviews Silver City
January 20, 2017Silver City by Jeff Guinn Putnam, 376 pages, $27 Reviewed by Karen Martin for blood,dirt & angels As a former books editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Jeff Guinn knows what works when it comes to writing a crowd-pleasing novel. …
Chest Passes
December 31, 2016Across the years and distances words spent and irrevocable appear behind the iPhone glass that hums softly in my pocket. And what am I to say to them? But that things have turned out all right. We both survived …