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Kick-Off

1948

Twelve Sport Immortals

1949

Yankee Rookie

(Novel about young player's fight to get back to the big t...)

1952

Sport Magazine September 1954

1954

Sport May 1960 Harmon Killibrew Willie McCovey Al Kaline Sugar Ray Robinson

1960

Pro Quarterback: My Own Story

(Autobiography of Johnny Unitas of the Baltimore Colts - o...)

1965

The National League

1966

Red Auerbach

1977

Un Dozen

1982

A Nickel an Inch: A Memoir

1985

That Place in Minnesota: Changing Lives, Saving Lives

1990

One Giant Leap

(The quarterback for the New York Giants describes his foo...)

1991

Legends of the Field: The Classic Sports Photography of Ozzie Sweet

(A collection of two hundred photographs taken by Ozzie Sw...)

1993

The Story Of The Brooklyn Dodgers

2000

The Turning Point 1948

Edward Earl Fitzgerald

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Background

Edward Earl Fitzgerald was born on September 10, 1919, in New York City, New York. He was the son of Francis J. Fitzgerald and Mary Leona (Morgan) Fitzgerald.

Career

Edward Earl Fitzgerald was a sports journalist, editor of Sport magazine during the 1950s, and executive in chief of the Book of the Month Club. He also founded the Quality Paperback Book Club, and worked as the president of the books division at Doubleday Publishing, and president of McCall's Magazine Group. He was also an author of sports biographies and his own memoirs include A Nickel an Inch: An Autobiography, and That Place in Minnesota. He also helped Yogi Berra write Berra's autobiography which Doubleday published, and co-wrote with tennis player Althea Gibson, sportscaster Mel Allen, and football player Johnny Unitas on their autobiographies.

Achievements

Fitzgerald was an author who served as chief executive officer for the Book-of-the-Month Club from 1973 to 1984. Editor-in-chief for the Literary Guild of America during the early 1960s, Fitzgerald served as editor for a wide range of publications early in his career. He also penned a number of books, including Player-Manager, which he wrote with Lou Boudreau, College Slugger, and jointly written autobiographies of such sports figures as Mel Allen, with whom he wrote You Can’t Beat the Hours, and John Unitas, with whom he wrote Pro Quarterback: My Own Story. His final work, a book of memoirs titled That Place in Minnesota, was published in 1984.