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Written by Marty Appel
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Sunday, 27 July 2008 |
 (Editor's Note) Marty Appel wears a lot of hats. In addition to being the owner and President of Marty Appel Public Relations, he is one of the finest baseball authors working today. To my greatest delight, he also serves as a Senior Editor for Gotham Baseball Magazine. He is currently at Cooperstown for this weekend's Hall Of Fame induction ceremonies, so I thought it fitting to share this article by Marty on one of this weekend's inductees; former MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn (left). He worked with the late Kuhn in the former commish's 1987 memoir, "Hardball: The Education of a Baseball Commissioner." - MH
The following was published in Vintage
Books Sports Collectors Digest, July 2007.
The passing of
former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn on March 15 leads me to devote
this column to my work with him when I was honored to collaborate on
his 1987 memoir, "Hardball: The Education of a Baseball Commissioner."
I was the one who came up with the title "Hardball," but as
it wasn't really his style of leadership, he came up with the second
part, feeling it better explained his entry into hardball politics.
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