Oliver Bateman
As seen in:
What's Left? Podcast,
Medium,
MSN,
Yahoo Life,
Yahoo News,
Aol,
New York Post,
The Atlantic,
Motherboard,
VICE,
Flipboard
and
Covers:
Sports, law, fitness, comic books, video games, labor, election analysis/handicapping
Doesn't Cover:
Generic hot takes, art, fashion
beloved writer often in @ringer @dcexaminer @realclearpa @menshealthmag | weekly in @unherd | 1000+ bylines since 2007 | PWAHOF commish | 🏋️
Oliver Bateman’s Biography
I'm a journalist, lawyer, historian, and competitive powerlifter. I was born in Southwestern Pennsylvania, where I grew up on a farm a few miles from the West Virginia border. I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Johnston-Pogue Scholarship, was a Monsanto Scholar at the Valparaiso School of Law, and held an Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Like former Rangers outfielder Kevin Mench, I wear a size 8 baseball cap. I returned to my home state in May 2016 and currently reside in Pittsburgh.