Steve Hermanos

Steve Hermanos’ writing has appeared in Barbaric Yawp, Centralbooking, The Dirty Goat, Lullwater Review, The MacGuffin, The American Book Review, Spitball, Mobius, The San Francisco Chronicle, and SoMa Literary Review.

Mr. Hermanos won honors from the Lorian Hemingway Fiction Writing Contest, and was a finalist for the William Faulkner award. He is the author of the novel Strange Jazz, of the soon-to-be published Going, Going, Gone, and of the books of poetry, O, Gigantic Victory! Baseball Poems, and Orange Waves of Giants!

He has been profiled by The New York Times, The Arizona Republic, and other publications. He has been a frequent guest on San Francisco sports radio.

For five years, he wrote a monthly sports column for San Francisco’s Marina Times. He writes the backs of baseball cards for the Helmar Baseball Art Card Company.

During his New York years, Mr. Hermanos owned and operated The Polo Grounds, a sports bar; founded TunnelVision, a sketch-comedy group; and produced Show Me the Aliens! a comedy feature film.

He earned a B.A. in History from Cornell University, an M.A. in English from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University.

He and his family live in Sausalito, California, where he coaches youth baseball and soccer.

Books by Steve Hermanos

Book Reviews by Steve Hermanos

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Readers have been waiting for this book since 1991, when Goldberger’s New York Times review of the brand-new Chicago White Sox ballpark was published.

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If Marcel Proust had been a 21st century baseball analytics expert, and chose as his subject a single game, his book might’ve ended up like Rob Neyer’s Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball

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Isn’t the publishing business supposed to be imploding, with printing costs rising, and the number of titles shrinking?

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Babe Ruth was baseball’s biggest star, ever, his name appearing in the record books more than the Beatles sang the word “Yeah!,” a man who hit homers higher and farther than any fan had ever seen,

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Keith Hernandez played first base better than anyone of the late 1970s and ’80s.