ABG Events and Media Reviews/Appearances
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*The CASEY Award is a prestigious honor bestowed upon the best baseball book each year. On November 2, 2024, A Baseball Gaijin was selected as one of 10 finalists.
The Running List
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 – Budd Bailey’s 4-Star Review for his prolific book blog “The Sports Bookshelf”
Saturday, December 21, 2024 – SABR’s Allan Roth chapter’s December meeting with Barry Mednick and company w/ Aaron on site at the Garden Grove Historical Society
Friday, December 6, 2024 – Tony and Aaron conducted a Reddit AMA for the r/TexasRangers community
Thursday, December 5, 2024 – Trevor Raichura’s story for Daily Sports Online entitled “Toreba no Toraba: Barnette’s Dream = Fischman’s Chance!” as well as Trevor’s Japanese-language article
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 – Lawrence Dow’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram piece, “A new book tells the story of a former Texas Rangers pitcher’s journey from Japan to MLB”
Monday, November 11, 2024 – Beyond the PhIrst Page podcast w/ Phebe, Phil and Isaac Cornell
Saturday, November 2, 2024 – Spitball Magazine named ABG a finalist for its CASEY Award for best baseball book of the year
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 – Tony’s “Locked on Rangers” podcast appearance w/ Brice Paterik
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 (noon eastern, 1 a.m. JST the following day) – Tony conducted a live Reddit AMA for r/NPB (Aaron participated too), which has been archived
Monday, September 23, 2024 – Having Read That w/ KSCJ 94.9’s Brian Vakulskas
Saturday, September, 21, 2024 – Book signing and presentation at The Open Book Topanga
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 – Jocelyn Anderson’s Q&A for UC Davis Magazine: “Alum Tells Baseball Player’s Uplifting Story”
Monday, September 16, 2024 – SABR’s Clyde Sukeforth chapter’s September meeting w/ Bruce McClure and company
Saturday, September 7, 2024 – Book signing at San Manuel Stadium
Monday, August 26, 2024 – Tony’s “Japan Baseball Weekly” podcast appearance w/ John E. Gibson and Jim Allen
Friday, August 23, 2024 – Sports Overnight America w/ Fred Wallin, Laura Snoke & Art Sorce
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 – Tony’s “Winning the Moment” interview w/ Cody Adent
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 – Baseball vs. the World w/ Javier Reyes (Tony and Aaron both appear)
Saturday, August 10, 2024 – SABR’s Rogers Horsnby chapter’s August meeting w/ Gilbert Martinez and meeting attendees
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 – 101.5 UMFM’s “Turning Pages” w/ Michael Elves
Saturday, August 3, 2024 – The K.P. Wee Podcast w/ K.P. and Stan Markotich
Friday, August 2, 2024 – Tony’s “Baseball Together” podcast appearance
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 – Tony’s “Mound Visit With Jason Grilli” interview
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 – The Sports Animal ESPN Radio 97.1 Tulsa/96.1 Grand Lake
Monday, July 29, 2024 – Carter Cromwell’s review for JapanBall
Friday, July 19, 2024 – Ed Odeven’s JAPAN Forward piece, “Aaron Fischman Shares Insights on His New Book About Persevering Pitcher Tony Barnette”
Friday, July 19, 2024 – Baseball Together podcast w/ Brig Berthold & Brad Curnow
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 – Rich Tenorio’s piece for the Guardian, A Baseball Gaijin: an American Pitcher’s Journey to Japan and Back Again
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 – Tony’s “MLB Hall of (pretty) Good” interview w/ Mike Santos
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 – Tony’s “Breaking Bats” interview w/ Justin Ayers (starts at 41:06 mark)
Monday, July 15, 2024 – In This Corner with JD: Sports Writers Talk Sports Writing w/ John Doyle
Monday, July 15, 2024 – “Shinjuku’s Guardian Angel – The Story of Tony Barnette” (Tony’s story featured on the YouTube channel “Gaijin Baseball”)
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 – WKNY’s Radio Kingston w/ Warren Lawrence & Dan
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 – Sports Byline USA’s “Titillating Sports” w/ Rick Tittle
Monday, July 1, 2024 – The 40-40 Vision Podcast w/ Khaled Abdallah
Monday, July 1, 2024 – The Twin Bill podcast interview w/ Scott Bolohan
Friday, June 7, 2024 – New Books in Sports podcast interview w/ Paul Knepper
Saturday, June 1, 2024 – Book signing at Excite Ballpark
