As Seen In The New York Times, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and The Washington Post 

Sridhar Pappu is the author of the forthcoming Murderers’ Row: The Making of the 1927 New York Yankees (W. W. Norton) and the award-winning The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain and the end of Baseball's Golden Age (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

Sridhar, formerly the regular "The Male Animal" columnist for The New York Times, is interested in all kinds of things: sports. national politics, media and their intersection in American life.

He began his career at age twenty at the Washington City Paper and would go on to serve as a columnist at The New York Observer and as a correspondent for The Atlantic. In addition, he worked as a staff writer at Sports Illustrated and The Washington Post. His work has appeared in numerous publications including New York Magazine, Vogue, the Los Angeles Times and Andscape.

A native of Oxford, Ohio, he lives in Brooklyn.

Books

 

Murderers’ Row

The never-before-told story of how the most legendary team in sports history was made.

Year of the Pitcher

Bob Gibson, Denny McClain, and the end of baseball’s Golden Age

 

OTHER WRITING

Media

The people and places who've shaped the news and how the news shaped them. 

Sports

Exploring the personalities, business and play of the games we love. 

Politics

The rising stars, fading figures and casualties of the American Experiment.      

Life

Book reviews, essays and pieces on the places we live in and those in search of home.