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Michael Shapiro

Biography

Michael Shapiro

Michael Shapiro is the author of THE LAST GOOD SEASON: BROOKLYN, THE DODGERS, AND THEIR FINAL PENNANT RACE TOGETHER.

He also blogs regularly for The Huffington Post about baseball.

A professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, he is the author of five previous books, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Michael Shapiro

Books by Michael Shapiro

The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together
by Michael Shapiro - Nonfiction, Sports

THE LAST GOOD SEASON is the poignant and dramatic story of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ last pennant and the forces that led to their heartbreaking departure to Los Angeles. Michael Shapiro, a Brooklyn native, has interviewed many of the surviving participants and observers of the 1956 season, and undertaken immense archival research to bring its public and hidden drama to life. THE LAST GOOD SEASON combines an exciting baseball story, a genuine sense of nostalgia, and hard-nosed reporting and social thinking to reveal, in a new light, a time and place we only thought we understood.