Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelfh (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, by Marty Appel (Doubleday) I doubt there’s anyone better qualified to write the biography of the late catcher than Appel, who served the Yankees for many years, first as a PR director, later in television production. The contacts he has devloped over the years would fill a small-town [...]
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelfh (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... teams name. And by the way, if you’re a nervous flyer like I am, you probably won’t want to pick Marty Appel’s biography about Thurman Munson as your in-flight reading material. Just a thought.
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelfh (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... to appear at the camp (that I know of ) are authors Reggie Jackson ( Sixty Feet, Six Inches ) and Marty Appel ( Munson ) so I hope to be able to grab a few minutes with them. The itinerary indictaes a couple of autograph sessions. I must admit, I’ve never been that excited about getting some celebrity to sign a piece of paper (unless it’s really personalzied, not just a pro forma...
