Longtime sportswriter and former editor of Sport Magazine, Al Silverman has authored several baseball books and helped Gale Sayers write his autobiography, I Am Third, the basis for the film Brian’s Song.Frederick G. Lieb became one of the first living writers to be inducted into the writer’s wing of the Hall of Fame when he received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award from the Baseball Writers of America in 1972. A journalist and author who covered baseball for nearly seventy years, he wrote twelve books, including six team histories for the Putnam team history series.
