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Onstage interview with PBS documentary Filmmaker Ken Burns
Wednesday, June 23rd
Noon - 1:30p Anatole Hotel, Dallas TX
Talmage Boston interviewed PBS documentary filmmaker Ken Burns onstage at the Anatole Hotel as part of the SMU Athletic Forum speaker series in connection with Mr. Burns' national tour promoting "Tenth Inning" which will air on PBS this coming fall--about the history of baseball from 1993-2010--as the sequel to his 1994 PBS documentary "Baseball"
Sherrington: Steroids a topic as Ken Burns' Baseball goes extra inningsInterview with best-selling author Michael Lewis
The World Affairs Council of Dallas/Ft. Worth
Talmage interviewed best-selling author Michael Lewis (wrote Liar's Poker, Moneyball, and The Blind Side) on stage at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas on March 30 at a luncheon sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth on the subject of his new book The Big Short coming out 3/15 about the recent economic collapse
Dallas Business Journal - When the perfect storm hit
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Talmage Boston interviewed by Doug Miller of MLB.com
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Baseball and the Baby Boomer: A History, Commentary, and Memoir
"Talmage Boston captures the heart and soul of the game that we, as baby-boomers, inherited." — John Grisham
Over the last 50 years, most Baby Boomers have played the game of baseball, watched it, coached their kids in it, read about it, or best of all, replayed it in that special place Bart Giamatti named “the green fields of the mind.”
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1939: Baseball's Tipping Point
"Thought-provoking and entertaining, a rare mix. History should always be this good." — Dallas Morning News
"Some of my favorite things about baseball got started in 1939—Little League, the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, and televised baseball games. Talmage brings these stories back to life." — Nolan Ryan, Hall of Fame pitcher
Baseball, in all its rich and glorious past, never had a year of greater significance. Baseball’s centennial year—1939—was the game’s tipping point when certain, seemingly unrelated, events acted to create the tipping point that drove the epidemic of change on multiple fronts—transforming the game.
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