Robert Wilson and Bobby Murcer at Yankee Stadium, September 20, 2007, during the photo shoot for Bobby's memoir, Yankee for Life. (Photo by Kay Murcer)

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CLIENTS A to Z


Nick Acocella and Don Dewey have collaborated on a number of books on the subject of baseball, including The Biographical History of Baseball, published by Triumph Books.

Marty Appel is the former public relations director for the New York Yankees who later served as executive producer for Yankees telecasts at WPIX-TV. His last book, Munson, recounted the life and tragic death of New York Yankees team captain Thurman Munson. Published by Doubleday in 2009, it remained on the New York Times bestseller list for five weeks. His latest effort, Pinstripe Empire, the first pure narrative history of the Yankees in half a century, is being published by Bloomsbury Press in 2012.

Steve Blass is a former All-Star pitcher and World Series hero for the Pittsburgh Pirates. His debut book, Pirate For Life, will be published by Triumph Books in Spring 2012.

Ron Blomberg, the former New York Yankees slugger, was Major League Baseball's first designated hitter and a huge fan favorite especially among New York's Jewish community. He is the author, with Dan Schlossberg of Designated Hebrew: The Ron Blomberg Story. Originally published in 2006, the book will be reissued in 2012 by Skyhorse Publishing.

Barbara Bowers. See Brent Bowers.

Bill Felber, executive editor of the Manhattan (KS) Mercury and a baseball historian, is the author of The Book on the Book, published in both hardcover and paperback editions by St. Martin's Press, and A Game of Brawl, a colorful account of the 1897 National League pennant race, published by Bison Books. His most recent book, Under Pallor, Under Shadow, about the watershed American League pennant race of 1920, was published by Bison Books in 2011. 

Daniel Fleshler is an American Jewish activist who has participated in efforts to counteract AIPAC for the past 20 years. His first book, Transforming America's Israel Lobby, was published by Potomac Books in Spring 2009.

Susan Futterman is the author of When You Work for a Bully, published by Croce Publishing.   

George Gmelch, a professor of anthropology at Union College and a former professional baseball player, is the author of a number of books, including Baseball Without Borders: The International Pastime, published by Bison Books.

Dan Gordon and Mickey Bradley are veteran freelance writers who collaborated on Haunted Baseball, a book about baseball and the supernatural, and the sequel, Field of Screams, both available from Lyons Press.

Agnes Hooper Gottlieb. See Brent Bowers.

Henry Gottlieb. See Brent Bowers.

Bud Harrelson was Gold Glove winner, two-time All-Star, and a key member of the New York Mets first two National League titles in 1969 and 1973. His forthcoming memoir, Turning Two, is the story of the only man to have been in uniform for both of the Mets championship seasons (1969 and 1987). It will be published by St. Martin's Press in 2012. 

Cecil Harris is a veteran sports reporter and the author of several books. He and Larryette Kyle-DeBose are the authors of Charging the Net, a history of blacks in tennis, published by Ivan Dee Publishers, now available from Rowan & Littlefield.

John Holway is the author of numerous books, including Red Tails, Black Wings, the oral history of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. Paperback reprint rights to the book have been purchased by Dover Publications. George Lucas has purchased the film rights. The film is in postproduction with a film release date expected in early 2012. 

Stan Isaacs is the former Newsday sports and feature columnist. He wrote the popular column, "Out of Left Field" which won a National Headliners Award. His latest book, Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World, was published by Skyhorse Publishing. 

Roger Kahn may be the most distinguished sports writer of our generation. His landmark work, The Boys of Summer, was hailed by Sports Illustrated as the greatest baseball book ever written. The book is now available in ebook (from Harper), audiobook (from Brilliance Audio) with plans in the works for a Broadway adaptation. His memoir, Into My Own, was published by St. Martin's Press. Also available, from McGraw-Hill, is Beyond the Boys of Summer, edited by Rob Miraldi, the first comprehensive anthology of Mr. Kahn's writing. Two more books are in the works: Black and White, the story of the integration of baseball as seen through the relationship between Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson; and Out of Print, an anthology of the author's newspaper and magazine articles along with excerpts from his books.

Kim Dana Kupperman is an award-winning essayist. In 2009, she was awarded the 2009 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize in Nonfiction through Middlebury College's Bread Loaf Program. I Just Lately Starting Buying Wings, a collection of her essays, was published by Graywolf Press in July 2010.

Larryette Kyle-DeBose. See Cecil Harris.

Sean Lahman's list of credits include Total Baseball and the annual Pro Football Prospectus. His latest work, the groundbreaking Pro Football Historical Abstract, was published by Lyons Press in Fall 2008 and hailed as "the most ambitious and fascinating football book of the year" by Publishers Weekly.

Bill Madden is the national baseball columnist at the New York Daily News who has covered the sport for nearly 30 years. He was inducted into the writer's wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010. He is the author of Steinbrenner: Baseball's Last Lion, published by HarperCollins. The book spent 12 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Other books include Pride of October, published by Warner Books/Grand Central Publishing and two bestselling collaborations with Don Zimmer, including The Zen of Zim, published by St. Martin's Press.  

John Marcus, one of the most successful resume writing consultants in the country, is a frequent contributor to a range of publications, including the Wall Street Journal. His books include Resume Makeovers, published by McGraw-Hill.

Joanne McCallie is the head women's basketball coach at Duke University. A true "Title IX baby," McCallie was a Parade All-American in high school (only 40 players are selected nationwide), starred at Northwestern University, then gravitated into coaching. In 2005, she was named National Coach of the Year by the Associated Press after leading Michigan State to the NCAA championship game. When she left Michigan State to take the head job at Duke, she became the first women's head coach in Division I history to leave a Top 20 team to take over a Top 10 program. Her first book, Choice Not Chance, will be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2012.

Bob McGee is the author of The Greatest Ballpark Ever, a lyrical tribute to Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, published by Rivergate Books at Rutgers University Press. The book won the 2005 Dave Moore Award as the "most important baseball book" of the year.

Craig Messmer is an educator whose formula for ranking the greatest players in baseball history, position by position, is the basis for Stat One, published by McGraw-Hill.

Rob Miraldi, Ph.D., is professor of journalism at the State University of New York in New Paltz and an award-winning author. His next book, Scoop Artist, a biography of American journalist Seymour Hersh, will be published by Potomac Books in 2012.

Jim Moskovitz is the producer of the nationally syndicated TV show, The Tim McCarver Show. He is the author with Pat Summerall of Sports in America, published by HarperCollins, and The Twelve Greatest Rounds of Boxing, with Ferdie Pacheco, now available from Sports Classics Books. His most recent book, Tim McCarver's Diamond Gems, written with McCarver and Danny Peary, is available from McGraw-Hill.

Bobby Murcer embodied the tradition and history of the New York Yankees for over five decades. During a 17-year playing career, he appeared in 1,908 games, batting .277 with 252 HR and 1,043 RBI. Murcer joined Lou Gehrig, Johnny Blanchard and Mickey Mantle as the only Yankees to hit home runs in four consecutive at bats. A five-time All-Star from 1971–75, Murcer is the only player to have played alongside both Mickey Mantle and Don Mattingly. After his playing career, Bobby became a mainstay in the Yankees' broadcast booth. On July 12, 2008, Bobby lost his courageous 19-month battle with brain cancer. Two months before his death, he published his memoir, Yankee for Life, with HarperCollins.  

Sharon O'Donnell, an award-winning journalist, is the author of House of Testosterone, originally published by Jefferson Press, and named a "notable book" for February 2007 by Book Sense, now available in trade paperback from Houghton-Mifflin.  

David Pietruza is an author and historian whose books include Rothstein, an Edgar award finalist, and 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents, an alternature selection of the History Book Club. Originally published by Carroll & Graf, both titles are now available from Perseus Books.

Philip Reed is the author of In Search of the Greatest Golf Swing, an engaging memoir about the author's relationship with the colorful golf legend, Mike Austin, available in both hardcover and paperback from Perseus Books.

Bill Rodgers shocked the sports world in 1975 when this relatively unknown runner captured the Boston Marathon and set a new American record. He would win three more Boston Marathons, four New York Marathons and fuel the running boom that swept America in the 1970's. His book, the story of his unlikely victory in Boston in 1975, will be published by St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books in 2013.

Mark Rucker is the proprietor of Transcendental Graphics that comprises an extraordinary photo archive of more than 200,000 images, specializing in vintage photos of baseball, the American West, the circus, and ephemera from the 19th century. These images are now available through Getty Images.

Sydney Schanberg is one of America's foremost journalists, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1976, an internationally-known columnist at the New York Times and Newsday, and an award-winning media critic for the Village Voice. He became well-known when his coverage of the fall of Cambodia in 1975, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, was made into the Academy Award winning move, "The Killing Fields." Beyond the Killing Fields, an anthology of Mr. Schanberg's best writing on the subject of war, was published in 2010 by Potomac Books.

Dan Schlossberg. See Ron Blomberg.

Donna Sozio is a Los Angeles-based writer whose first book, Never Trust a Man in Alligator Loafers, was published by Citadel Press, and landed her on the Tyra Banks Show.

Marty Strasen is a senior editor at the Tampa Tribune. His book, Cowboys Chronicle, a 50-year celebration of the Dallas Cowboys, was published by Triumph Books in Fall 2010.

Eve Tahmincioglu is a frequent contributor to the New York Times business section and to the nation's top business publications, in addition to writing a weekly careers column for MSNBC.com. Her first book, From the Sandbox to the Corner Office, was published by Wiley.

Roscoe Tanner was once ranked the fourth best tennis player in the world. His rise to fame and fall from grace are chronicled in Double Fault, written with Mike Yorkey, published by Triumph Books.

Mike Yorkey. See Roscoe Tanner.

Don Zimmer spent nearly 60 years in a major league baseball uniform, from his playing days with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the mid-1950's to his pivotal role as bench coach for New York Yankees manager Joe Torre's championship teams. His books include the The Zen of Zim, written with Bill Madden, published by St. Martin's Press.

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Tennis legend Robert Ryland (left) with author Cecil Harris at a book signing for Charging the Net.