Joe McNamara
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Sacramento, California, United States |
| Introduction | I love public speaking, writing, and I'm nearly done with my first book, a nuanced biography of my Uncle John McNamara, the late, former manager of the infamous 1986 Boston Red Sox. It will be one of the few baseball books to explore the First World War, The Irish Famine (Great Hunger) and why he left Buckner in the game, When not writing, I make pizzas, grill flavorful food, mix mean Whiskey Sours, and on schedule to plant potatoes on St, Brigid's Day. |
| Interests | Baseball, BBQ, Grilling, Weber Grills, La Caja China, Ooni Pizza Ovens, Opera, Sondheim, German Shepherds, Ireland, Sacramento, cemeteries, pizza making, art, books, writing, classical music, cycling, San Francisco, Manhattan, County Mayo, Irish Music, puns, speeches, rhetoric, cooking, bourbon, McNamara, The Great Hunger, William Butler Yeats, Robert Burns, James Joyce, JFK, John F. Kennedy, PT 109, Cole Porter, St. Patrick's Day,WW I, The Great War, Cantigny, potatoes, |
| Favorite music | Frank Sinatra, Kiri Te Kanawa, Blossom Dearie, Nathan Gunn, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman,Duke Ellington, Ravel, Charles Trenet, Cole Porter, Al Bowily, Billie Holiday, The Saw Doctors, Fountains of Wayne, Jessye Norman, Arvo Part, Liam Clancy, The Clancy Brothers, Christy Moore, Damian Dempsey, U2, Dougie MacLean, Luka Bloom, Nicola Benedetti, George Gershwin, Rod Gilfry, Hilary Hahn, Jonas Kaufman, Ronnie Drew, |
| Favorite books | Grant, The Great Hunger, The Road to Oxiana, The Dubliners, The Country Cooking of Ireland, Cuchulain of Muirthemne, The Deluge, Michael Collins, Frederick Douglas, The Curse of Lono, The Big Fella, 1776, The Playboy of the Western World, Collected Works of William Butler Yeats, Death of a Naturalist, North, |