Singled Out

*“Maraniss does an extraordinary job of recording thismemorable life in black-and-white photographs and fluid, compelling writing that is bothbiography and de facto history of gay rights and the depredations of homophobia.” –Booklist (starred review)

“A compelling narrative … This is a meticulously researched history of the ways queer culture in the ’70s intersected with baseball, Blackness, and larger culture wars, with one man at their center.” –Kirkus Reviews

A School & Library Best Teen Nonfiction of 2021
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2021
Esquire’s Top 100 Baseball Books Ever Written
YALSA Top 10 Best Audiobooks of 2022
ALA Rainbow List Selection for 2022

Featured in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, MLB Now, Slate, Vox, Outsports, ESPN’s “The Undefeated” and more!

Andrew Maraniss is a New York Times bestselling author who writes sports-and history-related nonfiction, telling stories with a larger social message. His first book, Strong Inside, received the Lillian Smith Book Award for civil rights and the RFK Book Awards’ Special Recognition Prize for social justice, becoming the first sports-related book ever to win either award. His young readers adaptation of Strong Inside was named one of the Top Biographies for Youth by the American Library Association and was named a Notable Social Studies Book by the Children’s Book Council. His acclaimed second book for kids Games of Deception was a Sydney Taylor Book Award Middle Grade Honor Recipient and a Junior Library Guild selection, and was praised by authors Steve Sheinkin and Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Andrew is a contributor to ESPN’s sports and race website and is a visiting author at the Vanderbilt University Athletic Department.

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