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J. R. Moehringer

American Journalist

Born: Dec 7, 1964

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Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison

I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part. J. R. Moehringer

Me Wise Vote Book Old Before Down Rejection Enough Slips Collected Magazines Magnet Stuck Write Take Part Since Were Been Very Trying Refrigerator Old Enough Depressing Them Used Many Keep Publishers Her Suggested Rejection Slips Suggestion

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents. J. R. Moehringer

Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper. J. R. Moehringer

Game Field Every Later Paper Drawn Only Football Perfectly Sooner Sooner Or Later Like Sheet Boxing Narrative Linear Lined Up Itself Gets Notebook Compared Baseball Letters Plays

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it. J. R. Moehringer

Some Purely Football Look How Aesthetic Doing Manliness Players

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches. J. R. Moehringer

Dreams Game Father Field Backyard Football Masculinity Part Catch Because Always Real Paternal Gets Form Eternal Conveyor Coaches Figures Baseball Foundational Credit Thing Belt

Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears. J. R. Moehringer

Sideline Top Defined Nutty Ruth Football Robinson Eras Bulls Lakers Mantle Teams Baseball Professors Players Basketball

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore. J. R. Moehringer

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