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Luke Epplin
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Author of MOSES AND THE DOCTOR (coming February 2026) and OUR TEAM (on Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller) lukeepplin.com Contact: [email protected]
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · Jun 2
All right, listen up: "Moses and the Doctor" is now available for pre-order. It's got Dr. J, Moses Malone, the ABA, playground basketball, Philly, Houston, Bird and Magic, and much more. It comes out on February 10, 2026. Let's go. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moses-and-...
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1m
"Moses and the Doctor" will be published four months from today, and it already has its first review on Goodreads. It's all downhill from here.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1h
I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I did not know this at all.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1h
Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 3h
You realize that I wrote a book about this season, right?
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 12h
My only counter would be that while "Born to Run" is a great tune, an all-timer, the person who could write a song so effortful and diligent is by definition uncool.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 13h
Yes, we're all dunking on the Johnny Cash hot take. But I can't get past the idea that Springsteen is supposed to be cool. Isn't his whole thing (beyond being a brilliant songwriter) that he tries, like, really, really hard? He's the opposite of cool
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 14h
Sticking with baseball and am writing about the St. Louis Browns for next week's newsletter. Let's go.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 15h
Jeopardy challenge: How many games in a row can pass without one of the contestants identifying as a writer?
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d
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...
The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images
The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 19h
Put everything else aside, it's very strange to ask writers if their jobs would be made easier with AI. I mean, we got into this ridiculous, precarious, tightrope-walking line of work to do the writing. You take that away or farm it out, and what's left?
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 20h
Watched the R. Crumb documentary that came out three decades ago, and it's one of the most extraordinary films I've seen. The scenes with the other Crumb brothers are weird and heartbreaking and disturbing. It's a slice of the American underground captured so vividly and honestly.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 21h
Thanks, Laura!
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 22h
I'm so here for this one.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23h
My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.
New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 22h
For the lunchtime crowd, my piece on how this iconic photo happened.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d
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...
The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images
The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d
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...
The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images
The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited
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John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social · 1d
Really good story by Luke Epplin about this famous photograph. lepplin.substack.com/p/the-stagin...
The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images
The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d
Tomorrow is the 77th anniversary of the Steve Gromek/Larry Doby photo from the 1948 World Series. I wrote about it today--its importance in "Our Team" and how a research discovery almost sunk the climax of my book. Enjoy. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images
The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d
Tomorrow is the 77th anniversary of the Steve Gromek/Larry Doby photo from the 1948 World Series. I wrote about it today--its importance in "Our Team" and how a research discovery almost sunk the climax of my book. Enjoy. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images
The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited
substack.com
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d
Oh yeah, it's Kay-row. That's the southern Illinois way.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d
Cairo
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d
I heard that same line through the 90s. I'll believe it when I see it.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d
It's fascinating that in the wake of two brother filmmaking breakups (the Safdies and the Coens), we're seeing in their subsequent individual films which ones needed the other the most.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 2d
It's all right--I know he's a huge Sixers fan, but I doubt he'd have time to read about them....
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 2d
Made contact with DJ Jazzy Jeff and sent him a copy of "Moses and the Doctor." Now if only I could find some way to contact Questlove....
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 2d
I'd be fine with that. I hadn't watched this Blue Jays team at all this season, but jeez, they're super fun and lively.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 2d
I'll be perfectly content with a Blue Jays/Brewers World Series.
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