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Boston rightly considers itself the premier sports town in America, with the most championship banners and whose teams have been responsible for the most dramatic and dynamic moments in sports history. “Tales of Titletown” is a collection of essays from some of the region’s finest sportswriters that prove this point.

Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him the "quintessential American sportswriter". For the past 25 years, he has also been a regular on various ESPN shows, especially The Sports Reporters, spreading his knowledge and enthusiasm for sports of all kinds.

A podcast about roller coasters and the parks they live in. Each episode will contain a mixture of industry related news, trip reports, interviews and a whole lot of rabbit trails.

Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he's attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season. It's a deeply personal tradition still going strong at more than 1,400 games and counting. The tattered scorebooks he's filled are worn from age, travel, and countless summer days, but their grids and scrawled symbols tell the stories of milestones, rivalries, rare historic achievements, and more. In Scoring Position captures the incomparable spirit of baseball, with its infinite possibilities and madcap anomalies. 

From Africa to America, Sarajevo to Nashville, the road these stories describes is peopled with an oddball cast of cowboys, detectives, office workers, and used tire salesmen. Along the way, they begin new enterprises and end old ones, lose loved ones and find new ones. They annoy one another, elude death, complain about the food, and find a little light. And some of them just might reach their destination.