The View from Pluto: Collected Sportswriting About Northeast Ohio - Hardcover

Pluto, Terry

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9781886228627: The View from Pluto: Collected Sportswriting About Northeast Ohio

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ISBN 10: 1886228620 ISBN 13: 9781886228627

Publisher: Gray & Co, 2002

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Sports fans in Northeast Ohio have seen a lot in recent years. The Indians’ exciting rise to dominance in the American League . . . and their heartbreaking loss in Game Seven. The traitorous Browns move . . . and the team’s hope-filled return. The blossoming of stars like Jim Thome and Omar Vizquel, the departure of fan favorites like Mark Price and Manny Ramirez, and the floundering of various overpaid disappointments.

And through it all there has been one constant: if something remarkable happens in local sports, Terry Pluto writes about it—well.

No sportswriter in Ohio has won more praise in the past decade.

For good reasons.

Pluto writes about sports as if they truly matter—because they do to the many thousands of us who start our day with the sports pages.

And he finds the stories with meaning beyond the box scores. Whether it’s the honorable frustration of coaching a losing high school team, the sad truth of a promising career wasted, the exhilaration of youthful talent, or the satisfaction of hard-earned success.

This is the first book to collect the finest of Terry Pluto’s sportswriting from the Akron Beacon Journal. For his legion of regular readers, it offers a chance to relive a decade’s worth of highlights. For newcomers to Pluto, it is a wonderful introduction to one of the best writers in the world of sports.

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About the Author:

Terry Pluto, a columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal, has been a sports journalist for more than 25 years. He has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, has been named Ohio Sportswriter of the Year six times, and has won more than 50 national and state writing awards. He is the author of 18 other books, including The Curse of Rocky Colavito (selected by The New York Times as one of the five notable sports books of 1994), Our Tribe, When All the World was Browns Town, and Loose Balls (named the best sports book of 1989 by USA Today). He was called "Perhaps the best American writer of sports books," by the Chicago Tribune in 1997. He lives with his wife, Roberta, in Akron.

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