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Allen Barra is an American journalist and author of a number of sports books. He is a contributing editor of American Heritage magazine, and regularly writes about sports for the Wall Street Journal. He has also written for the New York Times and New York Observer, and was formerly a columnist for Salon.com. He currently blogs on sports for the Village Voice website.

His 2009 book on Yogi Berra, Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee, was praised as "sturdy," "well-written," and "thorough" by the San Francisco Chronicle, but the New York Times thought it too enthralled with its subject.

In 2009 he was the target of a widely-read critique at the website Deadspin, which targeted Barra's subjective adoration for Derek Jeter.
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Total Books: 26
Big Play Barra on Football
Brushbacks and Knockdowns  The Greatest Baseball Debates of Two Centuries
Clearing The Bases  The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
Clearing the Bases the Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780312265564
ISBN-10: 0312265565
Genre: Sports & Outdoors
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Clearing the Bases The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
Football by the numbers 1986
Football By the Numbers 1986 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780139389375
ISBN-10: 0139389377
Genre: Sports & Outdoors
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Football by the Numbers 1987
Football By the Numbers 1987 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780133242607
ISBN-10: 0133242609
Genre: Sports & Outdoors
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Inventing Wyatt Earp His Life and Many Legends
The Last Coach A Life of Paul 'Bear' Bryant
The Last Coach A Life of Paul Bear Bryant
The Last Coach a Life of Paul Bear Bryant (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780393328974
ISBN-10: 039332897X
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Sports & Outdoors
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Mickey and Willie Mantle and Mays The Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Mickey and Willie Mantle and Mays the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780307716484
ISBN-10: 0307716481
Genre: Sports & Outdoors
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Rickwood Field A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark
Rickwood Field a Century in America's Oldest Ballpark (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780393069334
ISBN-10: 0393069338
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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That's Not the Way It Was
That's Not the Way It Was [Almost Everything They've Told You About Sports Is Wrong] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780786880539
ISBN-10: 0786880538
Genre: Sports & Outdoors
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Yogi Berra Eternal Yankee
Yogi Berra Eternal Yankee (Hardcover)Paperback, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780393062335
ISBN-10: 0393062333
Genres: History, Sports & Outdoors
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