\nColumbia University
\nUniversity Club of New York
\nYeshiva University
\n92nd Street Y, New York
\nNew York Historical Society
\nJewish Federation of Greater Hartford, CT
\nClemson University
\nTemple Israel, Westport, CT
\nNew York University
\nThe Mandell JCC (West Hartford, CT) Synagogue
\nSterling National Bank
\nUnion Temple, Brooklyn, NY
\nUnison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY
\nJohn Hancock Life Insurance
\nConsortium of New York City Museum Security Officials<\/td>
\nStamford Historical Society
\nWest Side Institutional Synagogue
\nNeiman Marcus
\nThe Baseball Hall of Fame
\nThe American Museum of Natural History
\nYankee Stadium
\nShea Stadium
\nBriarcliff (NY) Jewish Center
\nThe Yogi Berra Museum
\nThe National Sports Collectors Convention
\nNumerous Historical Societies
\nA frequent guest on ESPN Sports Century<\/i>
\nBookstores and Libraries
\nSeton Hall University
\nState University of New York at Oneonta<\/td>
\nThe Goddard Riverside New York Book Fair
\nThe Society for American Baseball Research
\nThe Gamesmen Society
\nThe Society of the Silurians
\nLarchmont Temple Brotherhood
\nLong Island University's Babe Ruth Symposium
\nThe Emelin Theater
\nThe Stamford Museum and Nature Center
\nPublicity Club of New York
\nYES Network Yankeeography Bios<\/i>
\nHundreds of television & radio appearances on behalf of clients
\nMuseum of the City of New York
\nJewish Sports Hall of Fame
\nMuseum of the City of New York
\nHingham MA Historical Society
\nGreenburgh Public Library, NY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n
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Bio<\/h2>\n
Accidental Yankee Fan<\/strong> Whitey, Mickey, Yogi, Casey<\/strong> And of course, there were the ones everyone wants to know more about \u2013 Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Billy Martin, Casey Stengel, and yes, the Voice of the Yankees, Mel Allen.<\/p>\n Award-Winning Author<\/strong> Storyteller\u2019s Storyteller<\/strong> He has known them all, from Babe Ruth\u2019s mascot, widow and daughters to Eleanor Gehrig, to clubhouse man Pete Sheehy, PA announcer Bob Sheppard, Toots Shor, George Weiss, Don Mattingly, Dave Winfield, and Derek Jeter. And he\u2019s been called a \u201cstoryteller\u2019s storyteller.\u201d<\/p>\n And his book, \u201cNow Pitching for the Yankees<\/a>,\u201d an autobiographical tale of his Yankee adventures, was named the best New York baseball book of 2001 by ESPN.<\/p>\n Marty Appel is a frequent guest speaker and moderator at baseball gatherings. A noted Yankees historian and author of 16 books, his audiences have ranged from Little League groups to gatherings of several thousand banquet attendees. Marty has appeared at:… Continue Reading ![\"Cooperstown8-04\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cooperstown8-04.jpg\")
<\/a>When the Baseball Commissioner\u2019s Office went searching for a precedent in the John Rocker case of 2000, they came up empty. It took a call from former Yankee public relations director and television producer Marty Appel to call their attention to the 1938 matter involving a forgotten Yankee outfielder \u2013 Jake Powell \u2013 and a suspension over racial remarks on the radio.<\/p>\n
\nAppel, an \u201caccidental Yankee fan\u201d (\u201cI was born in Brooklyn!\u201d), has been cited by the New York Times as one of the nation\u2019s premier authorities on Yankee history, and is generally acknowledged as one of baseball\u2019s most informed historians. Indeed, a private library of more than 2000 baseball volumes is one of the largest private collections in the country.<\/p>\n
\nBut Appel\u2019s curiosity has cultivated his knowledge far beyond the written word. As a Yankee employee from 1968-1977, and as their television producer in the \u201880s and \u201890s, he never missed an opportunity to get to know the elders of Yankee lore \u2013 be they Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey, Red Ruffing, Bob Shawkey, or Waite Hoyt from long ago \u2013 or his boyhood heroes like Whitey Ford, Bobby Richardson, and Elston Howard to his contemporaries like Catfish Hunter, Graig Nettles, Thurman\u00a0Munson<\/a>, Lou Piniella and Willie Randolph.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Appel, award-winning author of 16 books on baseball and countless magazine articles for Sport, Baseball Digest, Beckett, Sports Collectors Digest, and others, knows the story of the Tammany Hall-connected Yankee beginnings at the turn of the 20th century; the building of Yankee Stadium, the nation\u2019s first triple-decked ballpark \u2013 the rise of fall of the Yankee empire, the CBS years, and the media frenzy over the George Steinbrenner era, complete with hirings, firings, suspensions, ticker tape parades, and a question of a \u201cnew\u201d Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Appel, for 21 years a collaborator on the plaques that hang in Cooperstown, was also co-author of\u00a0books<\/a>\u00a0with Thurman\u00a0Munson<\/a>, Lee MacPhail, Bowie Kuhn and Tom Seaver. Through his public relations company, he handles Yogi Berra and the Yogi Berra Museum, as well as Topps, Leland\u2019s Auctions, The Sporting News and other Yankee-related accounts.<\/p>\n