Sports Journalist Mike Shalin, author of the 2011 book "Donnie Baseball: The Definitive Biography of Don Mattingly" and co-author of the upcoming book "They Call Me Oil Can: Baseball, Drugs, and Life on the Edge," will be speaking at Otis Library on Monday, May 21, at 6:30 p.m. He will be talking about his book on the legendary Yankee player Don Mattingly, and his upcoming book with former Red Sox pitcher Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd, which will be released in June 2012.
Mr. Shalin is a veteran of 35 years in sports journalism. He wrote for the New York Post from 1980-82 and then spent 22 years at the Boston Herald, covering the Red Sox for 12 years and then Boston College football and baseball before leaving the paper in 2005.
He is now a freelancer, with varied duties including working as an official scorer at Fenway Park. He has been a Baseball Hall of Fame voter since 1989.
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Copies of his books will be available for sale and signing. This event is free and open to the public. Otis Library is located at 261 Main Street in Norwich, and is accessible to people with disabilities. For more information, please call (860) 889-2365, ext. 128.
