I'm a former Associated Press sportswriter whose journalism career began in 1969 after graduating from Syracuse University with B.A. degrees in newspaper journalism and political science. My 38 books include ghostwritten autobiographies of Ron Blomberg, Milo Hamilton, and Al Clark plus The New Baseball Bible, a 424-page offbeat illustrated history published in 2017. My byline has appeared in The Sporting News, Baseball Digest, USA TODAY Sports Weekly, and the official All-Star and World Series programs. I received five first-place prizes from the Garden State Journalists Association at its annual dinner on May 23, 2018.