Episode 14: TALL MEN, SHORT SHORTS with Leigh Montville (8/10/21)
Leigh Montville is a three-time New York Times bestselling author, a former columnist at the Boston Globe, and former senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He is the author of TALL MEN, SHORT SHORTS - The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and a Very Young Sports Reporter, which is out now.
Published by Penguin Random House, Tall Men, Short Shorts is a masterpiece of sports journalism with a charming touch of personal memoir. Not only does this book chronicle the 1969 NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and The Boston Celtics, it gives us an inside look at what life was like as an up-and-coming sports writer at the time.
Leigh is also the author of Sting Like a Bee, Evel, The Mysterious Montague, The Big Bam, Ted Williams, At the Altar of Speed, Manute, and Why Not Us? His book Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero won the 2004 CASEY Award for best baseball book of the year.
Leigh lives and writes in Boston. You can follow him on Twitter @LeighMontville or visit www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/21056/leigh-montville to learn more.