by Adam Henig | Apr 1, 2016 | Book Review, Q&A |
Two years ago, I was contacted by executive film producer, Howard Barrett. Following my December 15, 2013 Blogcritics review of Jeffery Toobin’s The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, (the book that was the basis for the popular FX movie series about the...
by Adam Henig | Jan 26, 2016 | Spring Training in Florida, St. Petersburg |
One of the unforeseen delights of working on a book about baseball is that I was able to indulge in my childhood. Growing up in the San Francisco’s East Bay Area during the 1980s, I was fortunate to have Major League Baseball’s best and most exciting team in my...
by Adam Henig | Nov 21, 2015 | Spring Training in Florida, St. Petersburg |
On Sunday morning, November 8, when we jumped out of our SuperShuttle at the Tampa Airport to return to the San Francisco Bay Area, I remarked to my dad that we must have been the only visitors to St. Petersburg, Florida, who never spent a single moment at the...
by Adam Henig | Sep 22, 2015 | Alex Haley, Spring Training in Florida, St. Petersburg |
On Tuesday, October 20, I’ll be delivering a talk about Alex Haley at the Santa Clara Central Park Library. The lecture is sponsored by the Santa Clara County Historical and Genalogical Society. It is part of their monthly meeting, which begins at 6:00 p.m....
by Adam Henig | Aug 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last month, Hollywood Reporter reported that actor Laurence Fishburne—best known for his roles in the Matrix trilogy and Boyz in the Hood—would play the role of Alex Haley in the upcoming Roots remake. This made-for-television movie, which will be co-produced by LeVar...
