Keepers of the Game

DENNIS D'AGOSTINO is the author of Garden Glory: An Oral History of the New York Knicks (2003) and coauthor of Through a Blue Lens: The Brooklyn Dodger Photographs of Barney Stein, 1939-1957 (2007). Recognized by his peers in the sports community as one of its leading historians and as an accomplished author and practitioner of the oral history process, D'Agostino has been a working colleague for more than two decades of many of the writers spotlighted in Keepers of the Game. He lives in Huntington Beach, California. New York Times columnist Dave Anderson (1929-2018) won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for sports commentary. From 2000 through 2007, he held the coveted card number 1 as the longest-tenured active member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).