{"id":5551,"date":"2016-05-20T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T21:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2016-12-09T13:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:04:05","slug":"barra-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5551","title":{"rendered":"BARRA, ALLEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sportswriter.\u00a0 Born;\u00a0 Birmingham.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Jonelle.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one.\u00a0 Education&#8211; attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham.\u00a0 A contributing editor of American Heritage magazine; writes frequently for the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Big Play:\u00a0 Barra on Football.\u00a0 Washington: Brassey&#8217;s, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Brushbacks and Knockdowns:\u00a0 The Greatest Football Debates of Two Centuries.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 T. Dunne Books, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Clearing the Bases:\u00a0 The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 T. Dunne Books, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Inventing Wyatt Earp:\u00a0 His Life and Many Legends. Bison Books, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Coach: A Life of Paul &#8220;Bear&#8221; Bryant.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 W.W.Norton, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Mick and Willie:\u00a0 Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball&#8217;s Golden Age.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Crown Archetype, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Rickwood Field:\u00a0 A Century in America&#8217;s Oldest Ballpark.\u00a0 New York: W.W.Norton, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Yogi Berra:\u00a0 Eternal Yankee.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 W.W.Norton, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Not the Way It Was:\u00a0 (Almost) Everything They&#8217;ve Told You about Sports Is Wrong.\u00a0 Hyperion, 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Sportswriter.\u00a0 Born;\u00a0 Birmingham.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Jonelle.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one.\u00a0 Education&#8211; attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham.\u00a0 A contributing editor of American Heritage magazine; writes frequently for the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal. Sources; Contemporary Authors online Publications; Big Play:\u00a0 Barra on Football.\u00a0 Washington: Brassey&#8217;s, 2005. Brushbacks and Knockdowns:\u00a0 The Greatest Football Debates of Two Centuries.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6184,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions\/6184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}