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A graduate of UC Davis with a B.A. in history in June 2014, Marshall Garvey has parlayed his stellar writing and research skills across a wide field of subjects and publications for almost two decades. Originally honing his craft as a film critic in middle and high school, he wrote a book about classic movies at age 14 that spans over 600 pages, and became a resident movie critic for the Sacramento Bee's "Sidetracks for Teens" section the following year in 2005. He continued to write film reviews, lists, editorials, and other pieces for Sidetracks until graduating from high school in 2008.
Since then, he has been published by Teen Ink, 80s Baseball, Dodgers Nation, Richard Nixon Foundation, and Cygnus-X1. In 2010, he created his own historical novelty card set, Presidents Baseball. He co-founded the Sacramento-based gaming blog Last Token Gaming in 2013, which he continues to run to this day and has become a mainstay in the city's burgeoning video game community. In 2019, he self-published his first book, "The Hidden History of Sacramento Baseball," to high sales and acclaim. His individual articles have enjoyed great popularity, most eminently "Life, Death, and the 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers" for Dodgers Nation, which received praise from Showtime producer Jon Weisman and former Dodgers catcher Kyle Farmer. His writing for the Richard Nixon Foundation's "The New Nixon" blog elicited praise from historian Frank Gannon and former Newsweek editor Evan Thomas.
Yet it isn't just Marshall's widely published works that are met with admiration. In 2015, he sent an autograph request to his favorite actor and idol, Harry Dean Stanton. Stanton responded with multiple autographs, as well as a message on one of them: "You wrote an excellent letter." Whether in personal correspondence, full-length books, feature articles, reviews, or even just social media posts, Marshall puts exceptional thought into everything he commits to the page or screen.
Currently, Marshall works as a full-time history book author for the Davis-based group History Specialists. On the side, he continues to run Last Token Gaming, in addition to co-producing the video game variety show "Game Players United" for Access Sacramento. He is also providing research and writing assistance for a novel based on the Korean War.
Whatever you're looking for in a given piece, Marshall provides it with the highest degree of quality and professionalism attainable. Reviews, interviews, historical accounts, editorials, lists, rankings, tributes, retrospectives, and more. He writes everything with suffusive passion, illustrative vocabulary, painstaking research, unique insight, and accessibility that attracts both widespread readership and high praise.
By Marshall Garvey What do you think of when you hear the term "video game"? Your first thoughts may be of spectacularly rendered, immersive titles you dedicate hours to on blockbuster consoles ranging from Nintendo 64 to the Xbox One and Playstation 4. Likewise, you think of the video game industry as the expensive, ...
By Marshall Garvey In 2018, Last Token Gaming marked the release of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One with LTG's first month-long project, Spielberg Month . In addition to a review of the film and other pieces on Spielberg-related video games, I concluded it with a thorough ranking of all 32 of the director's movies .
By Marshall Garvey A Devil of a Gamble, and One Hell of a Triumph Year in and year out, developers and players across the world hunger for the next big thing. When E3 convenes every June (well...almost every June), the hype machine kicks into overdrive for the next title that promises bigger worlds, crisper graphics, ...
They say that time heals all wounds, yet there is still a sense of disbelief and pain associated with the death of Neil Peart that continues to resonate, even now on the one-month anniversary of his passing.
A full-length book about the historic firsts, memorable moments, and players that make Sacramento a special place in baseball lore.
By Marshall Garvey Please be aware this is a very personal story that talks about suicide. Please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline if you need help: 1-800-273-8255 Where does this story truly begin? Perhaps the most fitting answer is November 21, 1989. Born in Orange County one year removed from their last championship, loving ...
It's become something of a cliche to praise a modern player who shows any semblance of hustle as a "throwback". Should one employ the term, though, Larry Bowa is the ideal litmus. In a year that's seeing home runs fly at a historic rate (juiced ball or no), Bowa would be out of step, hitting a scant 15 in his entire career.
By Marshall Garvey Of the hundreds upon thousands who have sat in the director's chair, few, if any, can claim...
By Marshall Garvey Twenty two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, relations between the Obama Administration and Russia have regressed. Aside from hot-button issues like asylum for NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Russia's anti-homosexuality law, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin have not been able to come ...
The history of Philadelphia and Brooklyn/Los Angeles battling is almost entirely old as the teams themselves. The Philadelphia Phillies have tread the diamond since 1883, while Brooklyn started the following year of 1884. That's good enough for 2,102 games, and the Boys in Blue hold the head-to-head edge decisively at 1,169-918.