Bio

Talmage Boston

TALMAGE BOSTON is a trial lawyer and baseball historian.

The author of Baseball and the Baby Boomer and 1939: Baseball's Tipping Point, Boston has lectured on baseball history at:
     ● Princeton University
     ● the National Baseball Hall of Fame
     ● Houston's Museum of Fine Arts
     ● SMU's Cox School of Business

Boston's essays on baseball have appeared in:
     ● the Dallas Morning News
     ● Fort Worth Star Telegram
     ● the National Baseball Hall of Fame magazine
     ● the Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
     ● SABR's Baseball Research Journal
     ● Elysian Fields Quarterly
     ● the Dallas Business Journal
     ● And on the walls Nolan Ryan Center in Alvin, Texas

In recognition of his work, the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Boston as a Media Member.

In the civic arena, Talmage serves as a director for:
     ● the Society For American Baseball Research (Dallas / Fort Worth Chapter)
     ● the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation
     ● the SMU Athletic Forum

He and his wife, Claire, reside in Dallas, Texas. A shareholder and commercial litigator with the law firm of Winstead PC, Boston has been named a "Super Lawyer" in Texas Monthly magazine every year from 2003 - 2008, and currently serves on the State Bar of Texas board of directors.

Recent Entries

Decade of Drought Brings Harvest
Entering the 2009 season, the picture looked bleak for the Texas Rangers. Coming off 2008, when attendance dropped to a…
Ryan takes Texas Rangers from bad to great
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Playing With Juice, Playing With Fire
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Lone Star Library: The baseball conundrum by Robert Francis
In his review of Baseball and the Baby Boomer, Robert Francis said "Opening Boston’s book is a bit like wandering in…