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January 25, 1956 in Philadelphia

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Literature & Fiction, Sports, History

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Tom Wolfe, Gary Smith, Joan Didion, Ernest Hemingway

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Tim Wendel is an award-winning novelist and journalist. He is the author of a nine books, the latest being Summer of '68: The Season When Baseball, and America, Changed Forever), which named a Publisher's Weekly Top 10. His other include Castro's Curveball: A Novel; and High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time. His stories have appeared in Gargoyle and The Potomac Review, and his articles in The New York Times, Esquire, GQ, Washingtonian and USA Today, where he is on the Forums op-ed Board of Contributors.

Wendel teaches fiction and nonfiction writing in the M.A. in Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University, where he was honored with the Professional Achievement Award in 2...more

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SUMMER in Sports Illustrated

SUMMER OF '68 joins LEFTY, DRIVING MR. YOGI and Paul Dickson's great bio on VEECK, among others, in this week's Sports Illustrated on page 20. It's a funky chart in which SUMMER ranks No. 1 in the Fisticuffs/Riots category.

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Books by Tim Wendel

Average rating: 3.60 · 155 ratings · 40 reviews · 10 distinct works

	High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time 3.48 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball--and America--Forever 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Castro's Curveball 3.52 avg rating — 40 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Red Rain 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America by Tim Wendel (Goodreads Author), José Luis Villegas 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Going for the Gold: How the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Won at Lake Placid 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Buffalo, Home of the Braves 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The New Face of Baseball: The One-Hundred-Year Rise and Triumph of Latinos in America's Favorite Sport by Tim Wendel (Goodreads Author), Bob Bostas, Victor Baldizon (Photographer) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Definitive Wit of Winston Churchill: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	My Man Stan 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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Tim Wendel made a comment on Howard Mansfield's review of Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball--and America--Forever "Thanks for the support, Howard. Tim "
Mar 28, 2012 06:46pm · see review
Tim Wendel liked Mike's review of Summer of '68: " Tim Wendel is a modern baseball writer who taps into the American vein that David Halberstam, Roger Kahn, and Charles Einstein access in their work. No sport better tells the history of this country than baseball. Using baseball as a spring point,... " Read more of this review »
Mar 25, 2012 11:33am · see review
Tim Wendel gave to: Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3) by Tana French read in March, 2012	My rating:
Mar 11, 2012 02:11pm
Tim Wendel gave to: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis read in July, 2011	My rating:
Feb 29, 2012 10:54am
Tim Wendel gave to: Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis read in February, 2012	My rating:
This book not only details the British attempts to climb Mount Everest in the years after World War I, but it explains that Mallory & Co. were probably driven to do so by the extreme violence and death that they witnessed on the battlefield. In a...more
Feb 29, 2012 10:52am · see review
Tim Wendel gave to: The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else by Daniel Coyle (Goodreads Author) read in January, 2012	My rating:
A nuts-and-bolts look at how talent can come together in an individual. I read Coyle's book about Lance Armstrong several years. This is a departure for him but very well done.
Jan 02, 2012 06:41pm · see review
Tim Wendel gave to: Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson read in December, 2011	My rating:
Masterful job by Paul Hendrickson. He uses the decades that Hemingway owned his boat, Pilar, to frame the narrative. Difficult to consider Hemingway as just another macho man writer after reading this.
Jan 02, 2012 06:39pm · see review
Tim Wendel made a comment on Steve Kettmann's review of Papa: Hemingway in Key West "Steve: I'm really enjoying Hemingway's Boat by Paul Hendrickson. I think you will, too. Tim "
Dec 13, 2011 07:03pm · see review
Tim Wendel gave to: Watergate: A Novel by Thomas Mallon read in November, 2011	My rating:
An amazing job of historical fiction. I was fortunate to land an ARC, and this has so many memorable characters. Mallon brings Pat Nixon out of background and who would guessed that Fred LaRue would be one of the novel's major players?
Nov 14, 2011 09:13am · see review