I just got an email from a fellow named Matt, regarding my stories on former Sacramento Solons owner Fred David, who died in October at 100 and whose estate was just liquidated. Matt wanted to know if he could see the interview I did with David in 2001 for my high school senior project. David [...]
Posts Tagged ‘interview’
One final Fred David post: My interview with him in 2001
Posted: 7th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Historical topicsTags: Fred David, interview, Sacramento baseball players
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Port-mortem on McGwire: Five more questions with Dale Tafoya
Posted: 26th January 2010 by Graham Womack in InterviewsTags: A Legacy Subpoenaed, Bash Brothers, Dale Tafoya, interview, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire
Faithful readers of this site will know that in December I reviewed a book about Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco, Bash Brothers: A Legacy Subpoenaed. The book’s author, Dale Tafoya subsequently contacted me, and I interviewed him. A few weeks after that, McGwire finally admitted to using steroids during his career. Thereafter, his former trainer, [...]
10 Questions with Matt Walbeck
Posted: 4th January 2010 by Graham Womack in InterviewsTags: chronicles of the marginally employed, interview, Sacramento baseball players
I have found work recently as a painter and was in a town here in Northern California called Danville last week, doing interior work on a house. I got to talking with one of the homeowners, and it turns out she is from Sacramento, like me and went to high school with Matt Walbeck, a [...]
Interview with Dale Tafoya
Posted: 29th December 2009 by Graham Womack in InterviewsTags: Bash Brothers, Dale Tafoya, interview, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire
I got an email last Saturday from Dale Tafoya, the author of Bash Brothers, which I reviewed here on December 23. I got a little nervous when I first saw Tafoya’s name in my email inbox, as my review of his work was, at times, less than flattering. Tafoya was cool, though, saying that he [...]
Transcript: My interview with Jose Canseco
Posted: 18th November 2009 by Graham Womack in InterviewsTags: interview, Jose Canseco
I put batteries into an old recorder today and discovered I still have my interview with Jose Canseco from April 2008. I interviewed Canseco in Oakland on his promotional tour for Vindicated, the follow-up to his bestseller, Juiced. I snapped the following picture that night: Being that the former Bash Brother starred for the Oakland [...]
Ballplayers I have interviewed
Posted: 18th May 2009 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: interview
I majored in journalism in college at Cal Poly, with an unofficial focus on sportswriting, and between my time on the campus paper and freelancing and interning for various publications, I got to talk to some pretty cool people. The following are baseball players I have interviewed: Ozzie Smith: My first big interview, done my [...]
My interview with Dom DiMaggio
Posted: 9th May 2009 by Graham Womack in MLBTags: DiMaggio, Dom DiMaggio, interview
A few days ago, I alluded on here to an interview I did with Dom DiMaggio, calling it a story for another time. As fate would have it, the former Boston Red Sox center fielder and seven-time All Star died early yesterday morning at 92. Thus, I will now tell of the time I sought [...]