Bob Klapisch
Bob Klapisch | |
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| Born | Bob Klapisch August 14, 1957 New York, NY, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
Roberto Salvador "Bob" Klapisch (born August 14, 1957[1]) is a sportswriter for the Newark Star Ledger. He has previously written for The New York Times, New York Post, ESPN, Fox Sports and New York Daily News, and has written six books about baseball including the New York Times best seller Inside The Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees.[2] He has been a voting member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America since 1983.[3]
Klapisch was born in New York City and grew up in Leonia, New Jersey, where he attended Leonia High School. He was awarded a bachelor's degree, majoring in political science, from Columbia University, where he played varsity baseball and was sports editor of the university newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator.[2]
In response to his book on the 1992 Mets, The Worst Team Money Could Buy: The Collapse of the New York Mets (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).), New York Mets outfielder Bobby Bonilla confronted Klapisch in the team's clubhouse, threatening him, and having to be restrained.[4][5] Klapisch is half-Brazilian and speaks Portuguese fluently.[6]
Books Written
[edit | edit source]- The Worst Team Money Could Buy: The Collapse of the New York Mets (with John Harper, 1993)
- High and Tight: The Rise and Fall of Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry (1996)
- Champions!: The Saga of the 1996 New York Yankees (1996)
- The World Champion Braves: An Illustrated History of America's Team 1871-1995 (with Pete Van Wieren, 1995)
- '98 Champs: The Greatest Season, a Chronicle of the Yankees' Amazing Journey to the World Championship (with Adrian Wojnarowski, Ken Davidoff, 1998)
- Heat: My Life on and Off the Diamond (with Dwight Gooden, 1999)
- Inside The Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees (with Paul Solotaroff, 2019)
References
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- ^ a b Bob Klapisch Archived December 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, The Record (Bergen County). Accessed January 3, 2008.
- ^ BBWAA - Badge List Archived July 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, The Biz of Baseball, posted December 10, 2007. Accessed January 3, 2007.
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- Living people
- Columbia College, Columbia University alumni
- Leonia High School alumni
- Sportswriters from New Jersey
- Writers from Leonia, New Jersey
- American people of Brazilian descent
- American people of French descent
- New York Daily News people
- Columbia Lions baseball players
- Baseball writers
- American journalist, 20th-century birth stubs