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Randall Sullivan

Biography

Randall Sullivan

Randall Sullivan was a contributing editor to Rolling Stone for over 20 years. His work has been published in, among many other places, Wired, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Journal, Washington Post and the Guardian. He lives in Oregon.

Randall Sullivan

Books by Randall Sullivan

The First All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, FDR and America at the Crossroads
by Randall Sullivan - History, Nonfiction, Sports

1933. America was still reeling from the crash. It was a newspaperman’s idea: The Game of the Century. Put the world’s best players on one field and let the public decide who belonged there. At a moment when some feared the national pastime would not survive the decade, Chicago would host the ballgame as the highlight of the 1933 World’s Fair. THE FIRST ALL-STAR GAME is the story of a nation and a sport at a crossroads and a sweeping look back at baseball’s early history and the America that shaped it. Deeply researched and filled with remarkable characters --- legendary players like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Lefty Grove rubbing shoulders with Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone and Charles Lindbergh --- Randall Sullivan explores the history of an American obsession and captures the moment when both the sport and the nation found renewal in a single spectacle of hope.