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Terry Pluto
Terry Pluto is a sports columnist for the Plain Dealer. He has twice been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the nation's top sports columnist for medium-sized newspapers. He is a nine-time winner of the Ohio Sports Writer of the Year award and has received more than 50 state and local writing awards. In 2005 he was inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame. He is the author of 23 books, including The Curse of Rocky Colavito (selected by the New York Times as one of the five notable sports books of 1989), and Loose Balls, which was ranked number 13 on Sports Illustrated's list of the top 100 sports books of all time. 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, Ohio.
Terry Pluto's Web Site:
- TerryPluto.com: www.terrypluto.com
Books by Terry Pluto
Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball
Stories from a Hall-of-Fame Sports Broadcasting Career
by Terry Pluto | Joe Tait
Legendary broadcaster Joe Tait is like an old family friend to three generations of Cleveland sports fans. This book celebrates his hall-of-fame career with stories from Joe and dozens of fans, media colleagues, and players. It's co-written . . . [Read More]
Things I've Learned from Watching the Browns
by Terry Pluto
Here's a question for any Browns fan . . .
Why?
Why, more than four long decades after your team's last championship . . . despite a relentless pattern of heartbreak, teasing, and more heartbreak . . . capped with a decade of utter futility . . . do you still stick . . . [Read More]
Dealing
The Cleveland Indians' New Ballgame: How a Small-Market Team Reinvented Itself as a Major League Contender
by Terry Pluto
Now updated through the exciting 2007 season— with a new section of color photos.
For Indians fans who want to know what's going on inside the front office, this book tells all. It's an in-depth look at how the . . . [Read More]
The Franchise
LeBron James and the Remaking of the Cleveland Cavaliers
by Terry Pluto | Brian Windhorst
When the Cleveland Cavaliers drew the top pick in the 2003 NBA draft, an entire city buzzed with excitement. After all, how often does a LeBron James come along? Especially for Cleveland, a midmarket Rust Belt city without a sports . . . [Read More]
Curse of Rocky Colavito
A Loving Look at a Thirty-Year Slump
by Terry Pluto
Any team can have an off-decade. But three in a row? Only in Cleveland.
The Indians tempted fate when they traded away Rocky Colavito in 1960. Young, strong, popular, and coming off back-to-back 40 home run/100 . . . [Read More]
Faith and You
28 Short Essays on Faith in Everyday Life
by Terry Pluto
Sometimes I wish my minister would read his column instead of the sermon!”
That's the kind of response Terry Pluto draws from devoted readers of his weekly faith column in the Akron Beacon Journal. A sportswriter by trade, Pluto has . . . [Read More]
False Start
How the New Browns Were Set Up to Fail
by Terry Pluto
It was supposed to be the dawn of a grand new era of football in Cleveland.
Instead, it was a rude wakeup call.
When the new Cleveland Browns took the field in 1999, legions of loyal fans— once heartsick, abandoned . . . [Read More]
Browns Town 1964
Cleveland's Browns and the 1964 Championship
by Terry Pluto
First time in paperback *
In this nostalgic look at Cleveland's last championship team, sportswriter Terry Pluto tells the remarkable story of the upstart AFC team's surprise success over the favored Baltimore Colts and the colorful players who made that whole . . . [Read More]
Our Tribe
A Baseball Memoir
by Terry Pluto
Now in paperback *
A son, a father, a baseball team.
This memoir will touch the heart of any baseball fan who has ever shared a love for the game with a parent or child.
Sportswriter Terry Pluto tells the story . . . [Read More]