SCOTT ("S.L.") PRICE, SENIOR WRITER FOR
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED,
TO PRESENT ANNUAL ESTELLE FEINSTEIN LECTURE
AT UCONN/STAMFORD
APRIL 16, 2019
The 15th annual Estelle Feinstein Memorial Lecture will be presented by Scott ("S.L.") Price on the topic, "Sports, Culture and the Propellant of American History" on Tuesday, April 16th from 12:15-1:45 pm in UCONN/Stamford's Multi-Purpose Room. His lecture will be followed by questions and discussion.
S.L. PRICE, a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated since 1994, has written four books --including the recently-released Playing Through The Whistle: Steel, Football and an American Town, a biography of Aliquippa, PA. Of Price’s work, the New York Times said, “The seasoned reporter … is a master of the new journalism developed by Hunter Thompson, Gay Talese and Price’s personal paragon, Pete Hamill. Whenever he writes about sports – or about the craft of writing – he hits it over the fence.” NPR Sports commentator, Stefan Fatsis, wrote, “I’d pay to read a grocery list if Scott Price wrote it.” USA Today called Price "one of the finest writers on sports anywhere.”
Along with his more than three dozen cover stories for Sports Illustrated, Price has also written for Vanity Fair, the New York Times, TIME, and The Oxford American. Assignments have propelled him all across the U.S. and Canada, as well as to Colombia, Argentina, Liberia, Cuba, Jamaica, Kenya, France, Pakistan, Brazil, Australia, Greece, Japan, Korea, and China. He has covered ten Olympic Games, two World Cups, and countless Grand Slam tennis championships, interviewed Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and played Barack Obama one-on-one in an Iowa YMCA. He has also written about competitive Scrabble, Hurricane Andrew, an Italian soccer riot, the 1989 Bay Area earthquake, and the enduring importance of the movie, Diner.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina — where he covered Michael Jordan’s sophomore year — Price has received multiple honors, including two Associated Press Sports Editors awards, two National Headliner awards and awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Women's Sports Foundation. Price’s work has been featured in The Best American Sports Writing anthology on nine occasions. Price is also the author of Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports (2000), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; Far Afield: A Sportswriting Odyssey (The Lyons Press, 2007); and Heart of the Game: Life, Death and Mercy in Minor League America (Harper Collins, 2009). Esquire magazine tagged Far Afield as “one of the year’s five best reads” while the Chicago Tribune called the book “a masterpiece.” Before SI, Price was an award-winning columnist and feature writer for The Miami Herald and a columnist and NBA beat writer for The Sacramento Bee.
The Estelle Feinstein Annual Lecture is an annual lecture in memory of Dr. Estelle Feinstein, a beloved teacher, mentor, scholar, colleague and friend at UCONN Stamford from 1957-1989, where she founded the History and Political Science Programs. Her specialty was American History and the Urban History of The United States. (She published highly regarded books on the city of Stamford.) The Estelle Feinstein Annual Lecture is co-sponsored by UCONN/Stamford (and within the Stamford Campus by the History Department), The Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County, and the Stamford History Center. UCONN/Stamford is located at 1 University Place, Stamford. Admission to the event is free and open to everyone.
For more information, contact: Joel Blatt/History at 203-251-8427