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Marty Appel, Baseball Author & Historian<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Marty Appel (uh-PELL) is a former New York Yankees public relations director and television producer, and is today considered the leading historian on the team, having authored the team’s history,\u00a0Pinstripe Empire<\/em>, among his 24 books.\u00a0 He is an Emmy award winner, received a Gold Record (for spoken word recording), a two-time Casey Award winner (best baseball book of the year), and is in the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame, and Sports Halls of Fame for his college, his high school, and his hometown.\u00a0 He is seen or heard regularly on YES Network, MLB Network, SiriusXM Sports, and WPIX, and was consulting producer for Billy Crystal’s “61* on HBO, and the ESPN mini-series The Bronx is Burning, where he also played himself, 30 years younger.\u00a0 He began his career answering Mickey Mantle’s fan mail in 1968, and is the last remaining front office official from the Mantle years, the CBS ownership of the Yankees years, and the original Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Accidental Yankee Fan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appel, 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\n\n\n

Whitey, Mickey, Yogi, Casey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But 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 Munson, Lou Piniella and Willie Randolph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

Award-Winning Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n

Storyteller\u2019s Storyteller<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appel, for 21 years a collaborator on the plaques that hang in Cooperstown, was also co-author of books with Thurman Munson, 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\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

And his book, Now Pitching for the Yankees<\/em>, an autobiographical tale of his Yankee adventures, was named the best New York baseball book of 2001 by ESPN. His book, MUNSON: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain<\/a><\/em> was a 2009 New York Times best-seller, and PINSTRIPE EMPIRE: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss<\/em> is considered the definitive history of the franchise, with a children\u2019s version, PINSTRIPE PRIDE<\/a><\/em> published February 17, 2015, is now in paperback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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