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 are the authors of 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. He is currently at work on a narrative history of the Yankees, to be published by Bloomsbury Press in 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, published by Sports Publishing LLC.

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. 

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 editor of Baseball Without Borders: The International Pastime, published by Bison Books.

Dan Gordon and Mickey Bradley are distinguished freelance writers who have teamed up to write Haunted Baseball, a book about baseball and the supernatural, published by Lyons Press, and the forthcoming Field of Screams, to be published in August 2010.

Agnes Hooper Gottlieb. See Brent Bowers.

Henry Gottlieb. See Brent Bowers.

Bud Harrelson is one of the most popular athletes ever to play in New York, a 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, focusing on the fact that he is the only man to have been in uniform for both of the Mets championship seasons (1969 and 1987) will be published by St. Martin's Press in 2011. 

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.

Stan Isaacs is a 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. 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: Mr. Rickey, a biography of Branch Rickey; 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. Most recently, 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, will be 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 is the author of Steinbrenner: Baseball's Last Lion, published by HarperCollins. Other books include  Pride of October, published by Warner Books and two 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, has written for publications that include the Wall Street Journal. His books include Resume Makeovers, published by McGraw-Hill.

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.

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 due out from McGraw-Hill in early 2008.

Bobby Murcer embodied the tradition and history of the New York Yankees for over five decades. During a 17-year baseball career, he played in 1,908 games, hitting .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 golf legend Mike Austin, available in both hardcover and paperback from Perseus Books. 

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, will be 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.