Dennis Anderson

Luke Epplin (@lukeepplin.bsky.social) Author of MOSES AND THE DOCTOR (coming February 2026) and OUR TEAM (on Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller) lukeepplin.com Contact: lepplin@gmail.com

It’s awesome to see a review of “Moses and the Doctor” by @lukeepplin.bsky.social in the Wall Street Journal today.

Please stay on message. I know you will.

Baseball and hockey.

Take a moment today to be angry at the New York Times for whatever reason you're angry at it, but also be grateful for the news it brings you even if it doesn't phrase its headlines to your liking or uses the word "falsehood" when it maybe should have said "lie."

Lose NYT and everything is lost

Thank you for encouraging me to learn about Bert Williams.

Girls hockey in Ontario is at an all-time high — and the PWHL is helping it grow | CBC News Girls hockey registrations have hit a new all-time high provincially: 41,019 players in the 2024-2025 season, according to fresh data from the Ontario Women's Hockey Association. In Windsor and Essex ...

Girls hockey in #Ontario is at an all-time high — and the PWHL is helping
'There's no more exciting time than now for girls hockey'

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A reminder: There are 10 days left to enter the contest we're running on Goodreads. At the end of the month, thirty winners will receive a hardcover copy of "Moses and the Doctor." www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Outstanding storytelling.

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus has history and sci-fi and was my favorite book from 2025.

I was at Friday’s game. One of the coolest moments I’ve had at a Blackhawks game was seeing Commesso’s reaction to the national anthem. With a big smile on his face, he was in awe and drinking it in.

What’s going to be No. 251? May I recommend “Train Dreams”?

I can taste the ice cream cone.

Blackhawks' rebuild is test case for other NHL franchises considering taking the leap Is the potential payoff of rebuilding worth the strain it puts on the fan base? The Hawks are grappling with that right now, and the outcome might influence decisions around the league.

Many Blackhawks fans are fed up with rebuilding. They made their voices heard in replies to my Davidson story yesterday.

And that's one big reason why other NHL franchises are so reluctant to take the rebuild leap.

The Hawks have become a test case. New column: chicago.suntimes.com/blackhawks/2...

YouTube video by TEDx Talks The Next Lead: Life After the Newsroom | Dennis Anderson | TEDxColumbiaCollegeChicago

I had the opportunity to do a TEDx Talk at my alma mater, Columbia College-Chicago. I shared my story of how my 38-year journalism career ended and how my role as a preschool family education coordinator for Illinois’s second-largest school district started. Here’s it is.
youtu.be/L72WHcndfpo

This is a fascinating analysis of how history and economics have shaped perspectives in not just industries, but how individual human beings feel about art they're creating. Like after all good articles, I'm now wondering about how other artists (Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred; Pogo; The Perishers) felt.

Mike Joyce in his book “The Drums”: Johnny Marr doesn’t play the guitar, he wears it. #thesmiths

What do you know. There are sports fans on BlueSky.

A loud "Let's Go, Blue Jays" chant breaks out in Edmonton.

Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur Amazon.com: Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur: 9780063304574: Pearlman, Jeff: Books

@jeffpearlman.bsky.social is an excellent reporter and writer. His biography of Tupac Shakur, “Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur,” was released today. www.amazon.com/Only-God-Can...

Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew Forbes Baseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream—and for some, it’s also a…

To celebrate the Jays' ALDS win, @pressassembly.bsky.social is making Field Work available for 34% off the e-pub edition (1% per run the Jays scored on NYY). Not valid on print b/c Assembly isn't shipping rn in solidarity with striking Canada Post workers...

assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...

The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited

Seventy-seven years today, one of baseball's most iconic photos was taken. It features Steve Gromek and Larry Doby embracing after the Cleveland Indians' Game 4 win in the 1948 World Series. But what if the photo had been staged? Here's my newsletter on that: lepplin.substack.com/p/the-stagin...

Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates. The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

"Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates."

Good work from @chicago.suntimes.com on how ICE is breaking Illinois law.

www.wbez.org/politics/202...

No wonder, that’s more keys than a building super has.

Psst. Is your team eliminated from playoff contention like my miserable Halos? Now's a great time to pick up Short Relief, my chapbook released earlier this year by @406press.bsky.social!

SMH.

Just in case Chicago TV viewers want to avoid the primary local outlets of the corporations who made this Kimmel thing happen:

— Disney is obviously WLS/ABC 7.
— Nexstar is WGN 9.
— Sinclair is Marquee Sports Network.
— and Fox is Fox 32 and WPWR 50.

FREE POSTAGE

I’ve updated my website so that now postage is included in the cost of and print or painting, so why not take a look and see if there’s anything you’d like for your walls?

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#ww1 #ww2 #illustration

If YouTubeTV increases rates because of its deal with Fox, it can count on losing at least one customer.

I sent an email to YouTubeTV saying the same thing. …
And we can’t get the Blackhawks on YouTubeTV. SMH.

I will literally pay you, YouTube TV, $10 a month to keep Fox News off people's televisions.