The muse behind Eliot Asinof’s novel, Man on Spikes, would have been 88 this year.
Rutner, who had the distinction of being the oldest Jewish ex-major leaguer, enjoyed the proverbial “cup of coffee” with the Philadelphia As in 1927. He passed away last October.
In my "day job," I'm a writer/sports editor for a New Jersey weekly newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
My blog is worth $16,936.20.
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