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Bill Steigerwald

Bill Steigerwald

Remembering the Fricking Great Tommy Lasorda

Before two games in 1986 I hung out with the colorful LA Dodgers manager in his office under Dodger Stadium. This is the X-rated version…

Jan 9, 2021

Remembering the Fricking Great Tommy Lasorda

Jan 9, 2021

Bill Steigerwald

Why John Steinbeck panned the JFK-Nixon TV Debate

Too polite, too dull

Sep 29, 2020

Why John Steinbeck panned the JFK-Nixon TV Debate

Sep 29, 2020

Bill Steigerwald

Pittsburgh’s greatest journalist Ray Sprigle spent a month living like a black man in the…

‘I quit being white, and free, and an American citizen when I climbed aboard that Jim Crow coach. . . . From then on, until I came up out…

Aug 10, 2020

Pittsburgh’s greatest journalist Ray Sprigle spent a month living like a black man in the…

Aug 10, 2020

Bill Steigerwald

Reviewing ‘SMOKETOWN’ —

A good look back at the forgotten black cultural renaissance in 1930s-1950s Pittsburgh

Mar 7, 2018

Reviewing ‘SMOKETOWN’ —

Mar 7, 2018

Bill Steigerwald

Timothy Leary never went Hollywood.

Don’t want to pee on anyone’s observance of the Academy Awards ceremony on March 4.

Feb 23, 2018

Timothy Leary never went Hollywood.

Feb 23, 2018

Bill Steigerwald

Citizen Jane loves Uber …

In 2001 — about 8 BU (Before Uber) — I interviewed urbanologist Jane Jacobs several times by phone. She was in Toronto and I was a…

Jan 9, 2018

Citizen Jane loves Uber …

Jan 9, 2018

Bill Steigerwald

How to Meet the Queen of the Netherlands

First come up with the idea to write an American road book by retracing the iconic journey around America that John Steinbeck took in 1960…

Dec 1, 2017

How to Meet the Queen of the Netherlands

Dec 1, 2017

Bill Steigerwald

New York, New York, the morning after …

On my way to Brooklyn just after dawn on Nov. 1, at about 50 mph on the arching Bayonne Bridge connecting Bayonne, N.J., with Staten…

Nov 2, 2017

New York, New York, the morning after …

Nov 2, 2017

Bill Steigerwald

Chasing John Steinbeck

Seven Septembers ago, after lots of library research, I set out to retrace the 10,000-mile road trip around the USA that John Steinbeck…

Sep 19, 2017

Chasing John Steinbeck

Sep 19, 2017

Bill Steigerwald

A good Jim Crow book for your review

Excuse me, Medium readers, but I am in full self-promotion mode, trying to alert the book world to the existence of my fine civil…

Jun 27, 2017

A good Jim Crow book for your review

Jun 27, 2017

Bill Steigerwald

Bill Steigerwald

Ex-newspaperman and author of John Steinbeck expose ‘Dogging Steinbeck’ and 1948 Jim Crow/journalism history ’30 Days a Black Man.’ BillSteigerwald.com

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