NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Baldwin & Co. Coffee + Bookstore will host a community book signing on Saturday, Jan. 21, doors open at 4:00PM. The most popular sports media icon in the world, STEPHEN A. SMITH, is coming to Baldwin & Co. to discuss his life and career, explaining who he really is and what he really thinks in ways that he can’t address on television. Baldwin & Co. Coffee + Bookstore, is a New Orleans based (independently owned and operated) coffee shop and bookstore. Offering community outreach programs and events to promote literacy and celebrate the written word.
Get your collectible Hardcover Edition of Stephen A. Smith’s Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes, autographed live in person by Stephen A. Smith at Baldwin & Company bookstore Saturday, Jan. 21 – $30 Tickets available online.
The highest-paid personality on ESPN, the sports entertainment network so large and influential it’s known as “The Mothership.” The son of Caribbean immigrants and youngest of six children, he had to fight for everything, from time in the house’s one working bathroom, to enough cereal to fill his bowl. As a basketball player at Winston-Salem State University under Hall of Fame coach Clarence Gaines, he wrote a column for the university newspaper arguing that his own coach should retire due to health issues. He hustled and rose up as a sports columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer in the 90s, started appearing on ESPN in the mid-2000s; and was a rollercoaster with the network between receiving his own show, to getting fired / rehired between 2005 and 2011. In Straight Shooter, Stephen A. explains exactly how he climbed to the top of a media empire. This entertaining and revealing memoir addresses sports — the defining focus of Stephen A.’s life and career — but also touches powerfully on his childhood, family, and fatherhood, bringing readers behind the First Take desk and into his mind. From his own experience, he writes about knowing your value, spotting opportunities, building relationships, owning your brand, and promoting what you do best. Blending the provocative with the personal, this book is about how he overcame the odds by harnessing his integrity.
Get your ticket to meet and greet Stephen A. Smith today!
Tickets: www.baldwinandcobooks.com
When: Jan. 21, doors open at 4:00 p.m.
Where: Baldwin & Co. Coffee + Bookstore
1030 Elysian Fields Ave.
New Orleans, La 70117