Howard Bryant

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Howard Bryant
Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationTemple University, '91
San Francisco State University, '93
Occupation(s)Sports journalist, author, television personality
WebsiteHowardbryant.net

Howard "Howie" Bryant (born November 25, 1968) is a sports journalist, and radio and television personality. He writes weekly columns for

National Public Radio
.

Journalism career

A native of

Washington Post, where he covered the Washington Commanders from 2005 to 2007. He joined ESPN in August 2007.[1]

Books and film appearances

In 2002, Bryant published his first book, Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, which won the

CASEY Award
for the best baseball book of 2002 and was a finalist for the Society for American Baseball Research's Seymour Medal. In 2005, he published Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball, which was
New York Times Notable Book
 of 2010.

Bryant appeared in

The Tenth Inning, Ken Burns
's extension of his 1994 documentary Baseball.

Bryant was arrested in 2011 for allegedly assaulting his wife in front of their then 6-year-old son.[3] His wife later denied that Bryant had assaulted her and he was released on personal recognizance.[4]

Works

  • Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston (2003)
    ISBN 0807009792
  • Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball (2006)
    ISBN 0452287413
  • The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (2010)
    ISBN 0307279928
  • The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism (2018)
    ISBN 978-080702699-1
  • Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field (2020)
    ISBN 978-0807019559
  • Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original (2022)
    ISBN 0358047315

References

  1. ^ a b "Howard Bryant". espnmediazone.com. ESPN MediaZone. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  2. ^ "About Howard Bryant". howardbryant.net. Archived from the original on May 1, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  3. ^ Powers, Lindsay (February 28, 2011). "ESPN's Howard Bryant Arrested for Assaulting Wife". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  4. ^ Heslam, Jessica (November 18, 2018). "Wife denies ESPN scribe assaulted her". Boston Herald. Retrieved July 4, 2022.

External links

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