American novelist
Michael Lupica (; born May 11, 1952) is an author and former American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative commentary on sports in the
New York Daily News and his appearances on
ESPN .
Biography
Lupica was born in
Oneida, New York , where he spent his pre-adolescent years, having attended St. Patrick's Elementary School through the sixth grade. In 1964, he moved with his family to
Nashua, New Hampshire , where he attended middle school and subsequently
Bishop Guertin High School , graduating in 1970. In 1974 he graduated from
Boston College . He first came to prominence as a sportswriter in
Pottstown, Pennsylvania . Lupica wrote "The Sporting Life" column at
Esquire magazine for ten years beginning in the late 1980s, and currently writes a regular column for
Travel + Leisure Golf . He has also written for
Golf Digest ,
Parade ,
ESPN The Magazine , and
Men’s Journal , and has received numerous awards including, in 2003, the
Jim Murray Award from the
National Football Foundation .
[1]
Daily News columnist
Lupica wrote several sports columns during the week for the Daily News , as well as a signature Sunday column, "Shooting from the Lip," which featured a traditional column followed by a series of short, acerbic observations from the week in sports. Later in his career he began writing a regular political column entitled "Mondays with Mike," which is strongly
liberal in orientation. He left the Daily News in July 2018.
[2]
Favorite Lupica targets include the
New York Yankees , (and will often state their massive payroll in most of his articles)
James L. Dolan ,
Isiah Thomas ,
Notre Dame football ,
Rudy Giuliani ,
Michael Bloomberg , former President
George W. Bush , and former Vice President
Dick Cheney . Lupica has also been a harsh critic of the new
Yankee Stadium and was a vehement opponent of the proposed
West Side Stadium . He has likewise been highly critical of the
Atlantic Yards project and the attendant construction of the
Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Author
Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with
Reggie Jackson and
Bill Parcells and collaborated with screenwriter
William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year and Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away From the Fans and How We Get It Back. Lupica also wrote
Summer of ’98 : When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America , which detailed how the 1998 and the
Mark McGwire /
Sammy Sosa home run chase had allowed him to share a love for baseball with his son. Lupica has been listed a vocal critic of the steroid era.[
citation needed ]
Lupica is also a novelist; his work includes mysteries involving fictional NYC television reporter Peter Finley. One of them, Dead Air , was nominated for the
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Mystery and the
1987 Anthony Award in the same category; and was also adapted into a television movie called Money, Power, Murder.
[1]
[3] He has written a novel for younger audiences called Travel Team. Lupica’s Bump and Run and Wild Pitch were best sellers. 2003 saw a sequel to Bump and Run, entitled Red Zone. In April 2006, his second children's book, Heat, was published by
Philomel . Heat is a fictional story based on the
Danny Almonte scandal in the
South Bronx
Little League . In October 2006, Lupica's third children's novel, Miracle on 49th Street, was published. Summer Ball, a sequel to Travel Team, was released in 2007.
Television and radio work
Since 1988 Lupica has been one of the rotating pundits on
The Sports Reporters on ESPN.
[4] He also briefly hosted an unsuccessful television chat program, The Mike Lupica Show, on
ESPN2 , as well as a short-lived radio show on
WFAN in
New York City in the mid-1990s. He has been a recurring guest on the
CBS Morning News ,
Good Morning America , and
The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour . Lupica has made frequent radio appearances on
Imus in the Morning since the early 1980s.
[5] Lupica hosted a daily radio show on
WEPN-FM from May 9, 2011, until August 21, 2015.
[6]
[7]
Works
Non-series books
Adult books
Reggie! (with
Reggie Jackson , 1984)
[8]
Parcells: An Autobiography of the Biggest Giant of Them All (with Bill Parcells, 1987)
[9]
Wait 'till Next Year: The Story of a Season When What Should've Happened Didn't and What Could've Gone Wrong Did (with William Goldman, 1988)
[10]
Shooting From The Lip: Essays, Columns, Quips, and Gripes in the Grand Tradition of Dyspeptic Sports Writing (1988)
[11]
Jump! (1995)
[12]
Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fans and How We Get It Back (1996)
[13]
Summer of '98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America (1999)
[14]
Yankees '98: Best Ever! (a compendium of Daily News coverage, 1999)
Bump and Run (2000)
[15]
Full Court Press (2001)
[16]
Wild Pitch (2002)
[17]
Red Zone (2003)
[18]
Too Far (2004)
[19]
Best American Sports Writing 2005 (edited by; 2005)
[20]
Fathers & Sons & Sports: An Anthology of Great American Sports Writing (2008)
[21]
Young adult books
Series
Adult series
Peter Finley series
Dead Air (1986)
[35]
Extra Credits (1990)
[36]
Limited Partner (1990)
[37]
Young adult series
Comeback Kids series
Game Changers series
Game Changers (2012)
[43]
Play Makers (2013)
[44]
Heavy Hitters (2014)
[45]
Zach and Zoe mystery series
The Hockey Rink Hunt
[46]
Related books
References
^
a
b
Speaker Page: Mike Lupica
Archived October 29, 2006, at the
Wayback Machine from Greater Talent Network.
^ Early Lead: Mike Lupica is leaving the New York Daily News to write detective novelsby Matt Bonesteel. The Washington Post . August 17, 2018
[1]
^
"Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees" . Archived from
the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved April 4, 2012 .
^
The Sports Reporters
Archived February 5, 2008, at the
Wayback Machine on TV.com.
^
"Press release"
Archived November 17, 2006, at the
Wayback Machine from Boats, Books, and Brushes, May 19, 2003
^
"Mike Lupica no longer on ESPN New York Radio" . Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
^
"ESPN Radio shakes up mid-day lineup" .
New York Daily News . August 25, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
^ Jackson, Reggie; Lupica, Mike (1985).
Reggie . New York: Ballantine Books.
ISBN
978-0-345-31216-7 .
OCLC
851759338 .
^ Parcells, Bill; Lupica, Mike (1987).
Parcells: autobiography of the biggest Giant of them all . Bonus Books.
ISBN
978-0-933893-40-5 .
OCLC
16310516 .
^ Goldman, William; Lupica, Mike (1989).
Wait till next year: the story of a season when what should've happened didn't and what could've gone wrong did . New York: Bantam.
ISBN
978-0-553-28226-9 .
OCLC
20516540 .
^ Lupica, Mike (1988).
Shooting from the lip: essays, columns, quips, and gripes in the grand tradition of dyspeptic sports writing . Bonus Books.
ISBN
978-0-933893-60-3 .
OCLC
17991073 .
^ Lupica, Mike; CloudLibrary (2013).
Jump . Random House Publishing.
ISBN
978-0-307-82996-2 .
OCLC
1004751259 .
^ Lupica, Mike (1998).
Mad as hell: how sports got away from the fans-- and how we get it back . Lincolnwood, Chicago, Ill.: NTC/Contemporary Books.
ISBN
978-0-8092-3008-2 .
OCLC
37631204 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2000). Summer of '98: when homers flew, records fell, and baseball reclaimed America . Lincolnwood, Ill.: Contemporary Books.
ISBN
978-0-8092-2444-9 .
OCLC
57300451 .
^ New York Daily News; New York Yankees (Baseball team) (1998). Yankees '98: best ever! . Champaign, IL 61821: Sports Pub.
ISBN
978-1-58261-030-6 .
OCLC
41517004 . {{
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^ Full court press , 2013,
ISBN
978-1-4692-4436-5 ,
OCLC
852820581
^ Lupica, Mike (2003). Wild pitch . New York: Berkley Books.
ISBN
978-0-425-19204-7 .
OCLC
883946251 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2004). Red zone . New York: Berkley Books.
ISBN
978-0-425-19875-9 .
OCLC
56620942 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2014).
Too far . New York: Berkley Books.
ISBN
978-1-101-19184-2 .
OCLC
883343501 . Archived from
the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
^ Stout, Glenn; Lupica, Mike (2005). The best American sports writing 2005 . Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
ISBN
978-0-618-47019-8 .
OCLC
65428812 .
^ Bissinger, Buzz; Lupica, Mike (2009). Fathers & sons & sports: great writing . New York: ESPN Books.
ISBN
978-1-933060-70-5 .
OCLC
262433255 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2015). Heat . New York: Scholastic, Inc.
ISBN
978-0-545-79590-6 .
OCLC
1028750666 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2014).
Miracle on 49th street . New York: Puffin Books.
ISBN
978-1-101-20056-8 .
OCLC
883343560 . Archived from
the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2012). The big field . National Geographic Books.
ISBN
978-0-14-241910-6 .
OCLC
973485190 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2014).
Million-dollar throw . New York: Puffin Books.
ISBN
978-1-101-10905-2 .
OCLC
883343550 . Archived from
the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2014).
The batboy . New York: Puffin Books.
ISBN
978-1-101-15988-0 .
OCLC
883343484 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2014).
Hero . New York: Puffin Books.
ISBN
978-1-101-19837-7 .
OCLC
883343483 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2014).
The underdogs . New York: Puffin Books.
ISBN
978-1-101-53568-4 .
OCLC
883343526 . Archived from
the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2013). True legend . Penguin.
ISBN
978-0-14-242650-0 .
OCLC
814454890 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2014). QB 1 . Penguin.
ISBN
978-0-14-751152-2 .
OCLC
861478578 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2015). Fantasy League . New York (N.Y.): Puffin Books.
ISBN
978-0-14-751494-3 .
OCLC
944227689 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2015). The only game. (Home team, vol. 1.) . New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
ISBN
978-1-4814-0995-7 .
OCLC
946962114 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2017). Fast break . Scholastic, Incorporated.
ISBN
978-1-338-16593-7 .
OCLC
1013185025 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2017). The Extra Yard: a Home Team Novel . Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
ISBN
978-1-4814-1001-4 .
OCLC
982649965 .
^ Lupica, Mike (1987).
Dead air . New York: Ballantine Books.
ISBN
978-0-345-30813-9 .
OCLC
15605317 .
^ Lupica, Mike (1990). Extra credits . New York: Ballantine Books.
ISBN
978-0-345-36029-8 .
OCLC
22377327 .
^ Lupica, Mike (1992). Limited partner . New York: Ballantine Books.
ISBN
978-0-345-37237-6 .
OCLC
25023505 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2007).
Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids: Two Minute Drill . New York, NY: Philomel Books.
ISBN
978-0-399-24715-6 .
OCLC
731318220 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2007). Hot hand. #1 #1 . New York; Boston, MA: Philomel Books ; Walden Media.
ISBN
978-0-399-24714-9 .
OCLC
972377692 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2013). Safe at home: a Comeback Kids novel . Abdo Publishing Company.
ISBN
978-1-59961-177-8 .
OCLC
990315591 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2013). Long shot: a comeback kids novel . Spotlight.
ISBN
978-1-59961-176-1 .
OCLC
990323441 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2018). Shoot-out . Penguin.
ISBN
978-0-451-47934-1 .
OCLC
1004104563 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2014). Game changers . New York: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN
978-0-545-68784-3 .
OCLC
887216303 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2013).
Play makers . Scholastic, Incorporated.
ISBN
978-0-545-38183-3 .
OCLC
820148200 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2014). Game changers. Heavy hitters 03 03 . Scholastic Incorporated.
ISBN
978-0-545-38184-0 .
OCLC
880828232 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2019). The hockey rink hunt . Danger, Chris. New York.
ISBN
978-0-425-28948-8 .
OCLC
1060183812 . {{
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link )
^ Lupica, Mike (2014).
Travel team . New York: Puffin Books.
ISBN
978-1-101-20047-6 .
OCLC
883343400 . Archived from
the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
^ Lupica, Mike (2014).
Summer ball . New York: Puffin Books.
ISBN
978-1-101-20062-9 .
OCLC
883343559 .
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