Squawkin' Sports (at DSK)

OFFSITE-EVENT: DSK
Squawkin’ Sports!
Tuesday, October 22, 7:00 PM
Hosted by Patrick Sauer & David J. Roth
Featuring authors Mirin Fader and Howard Megdal
Tickets: $10, $45, & $80

Created and hosted by writers Patrick Sauer and David J. Roth, Squawkin’ Sports is an ongoing series featuring book chats with grown-up authors writing about grown-ups playing kiddie games. This month, Squawkin' Sports is hosting a special in-person event at Die Stammkneipe Brooklyn (710 Fulton St.). Sauer and Roth chat with Mirin Fader, author of Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon and Howard Megdal, author of Rare Gems: How Four Generations of Women Paved the Way For the WNBA.

From the New York Times bestselling author, Dream tells the life and legacy of pioneering international basketball superstar Hakeem Olajuwon, a two‑time NBA champion whose Hall of Fame career forever changed the game, both in the United States and around the globe. Award-winning hoops journalist Mirin Fader explores this phenomenal shift through the lens of what Olajuwon accomplished throughout the 1980s and ‘90s. Synthesizing hundreds of interviews and in-depth research, Fader provides the definitive biography of Olajuwon as well as a crucial understanding of his pivotal impact on the ever-shifting game.

An expansive and compelling chronicle—Rare Gems is the story of the pioneers who shaped so much of the modern infrastructure for women's basketball. It is the story of forcing open doors—to ensure teams even existed, to allow those teams to play in conditions resembling those men could take for granted, to ensure that the color of your skin or who you love would not be a barrier to building a life centered around basketball. To end the double-standard that treats every undeniable success by women as a one-off, but every setback as a referendum. Through meticulous research and evocative storytelling, this captivating narrative gives due recognition to the luminaries who ushered in women's basketball's modern era.

Ticket options:
$10: 1 drink
$45: 1 drink + 1 Dream
$45: 1 drink + 1 Rare Gems
$80: 1 drink + 1 Copy of Both Books

Host or Publisher Greenlight Bookstore