Devra Maza is a screenwriter and actor working in Los Angeles, but missing New York. An award-winning journalist, her articles on film and baseball have been featured in The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Daily News and Written By Magazine. She now brings her Renaissance Girl columns, commenting on all things cultural, to the Huffington Post. Prior to becoming a writer, she worked as a model during which time she was dubbed "La Dea Porcellana" by the Italian press. She recovered to write for both film and TV and is the author of the poem, "The Great Greg Maddux" which was unanimously voted by the curators committee into the permanent collection of the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown.

Blog Entries by Devra Maza

Baseball's Big Black Eye: Black Sox, Blackouts and the Banning of Buck Weaver

Posted August 27, 2009 | 11:29 PM (EST)


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It's a saying as old as the game itself and some version of it can be found posted in every Major League Baseball clubhouse: "What we do here, what we say here, when you leave here, it should stay here." It's proof positive...

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Michael Jackson's Other Big Move: The Crotch-Grab

5 Comments | Posted July 6, 2009 | 06:02 PM (EST)


With the passing of Michael Jackson, everyone's mourning the loss of his moonwalk, the move he made famous. But what about his other big move: the crotch-grab. It was just as defining and identifiable with him as that sliding backwards step was. You know the one. It was usually preceded...

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