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'''Barry Svrluga''' is the national baseball writer for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', and WashingtonPost.com.
'''Barry Svrluga''' is the national baseball writer for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', WashingtonPost.com, and is a frequent contributor on The Tony Kornheiser Show.
==Life==
==Life==
He was previously the beat reporter for the [[Washington Nationals]] and later covered the [[Washington Redskins]].
He was previously the beat reporter for the [[Washington Nationals]] and later covered the [[Washington Redskins]].

Revision as of 12:30, 7 December 2017

Barry Svrluga
NationalityAmerican
EducationDuke University
GenreFiction, Bandwagon Fantasy

Barry Svrluga is the national baseball writer for The Washington Post, WashingtonPost.com, and is a frequent contributor on The Tony Kornheiser Show.

Life

He was previously the beat reporter for the Washington Nationals and later covered the Washington Redskins. While on the Nationals beat, he blogged at the Nationals Journal. The blog dissects and analyzes all things Nationals several times daily.

As beat writer, Svrluga was present the night Barry Bonds hit is 756th home run and wrote the companion piece from the perspective of Nationals starting pitcher Mike Bacsik to Washington Post reporter Dave Sheinin's account of the record breaking home run.[1]

Svrluga attended Duke University.

Works

  • National Pastime: Sports, Politics and the Return of Baseball to Washington, D.C., Doubleday, 2006, ISBN 9780385517850
  • Barry Svrluga (7 July 2015). The Grind: Inside Baseball's Endless Season. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-698-40803-6.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Pitcher of Record The Washington Post, 8 August 2007
  2. ^ Leitch, Will. "Not Over Till It's Over". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
External audio
audio icon BARRY SVRLUGA ON BASEBALL’S ‘ENDLESS SEASON’, Newseum, July 18, 2015