Martin Eliot Appel

Background

Appel, Martin Eliot was born on August 7, 1948 in New York City. Son of Irving and Celia (Mann) Appel.

Education

Bachelor of Science, State University of New York, Oneonta, 1970.

Career

Assistant director public relations New York Yankees, Bronx, 1968-1974, director public relations, 1974-1977. Associate director information Baseball Commr's. Office, New York City, 1978-1980.

Director public relations Station WPIX, 1980-1983, vice president public relations, since 1983. Vice president public relations and sports, executive producer New York Yankees baseball, New York Giants and New York Jets pre-season football, since 1988. President Garagiola/Appel Enterprises, Tarrytown, New York, 1977-1978. Publicist MLB, 1979-80, consultant MLB's PRC 1993. PR Director the Topps Company 1994-1998. President, Marty Appel Public Relations 2008-present. Author 24 books.

Achievements

• Avocations: baseball, history, United States presidency.

Works

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• book

  • Thurman Munson : An Autobiography

    (Yankee catcher Thurman Munson -- first team captain since...)

  • The first book of baseball

    (Explains the history and rules of baseball.)

  • Thurman Munson - An Autobiography
  • Thurman Munson An Autobiography with Martin Appel
  • Working the Plate - The Eric Gregg Story

• Other Work

  • Author: Baseball's Best: Hall of Fame Gallery, 1977 (Outstanding Sports Reference Book award American Library Association), The First Book of Baseball, 1988, Yesterday's Heroes, 1988, (with Thurman Muson) Thurman Munson: An Autobiography, 1978, (with Tom Seaver) Tom Seaver's All-Time Baseball Greats, 1983, (with Eric Gregg) Working the Plate, 1990. Editorial assistant (book) Hardball: Memoirs of Bowie Kuhn, 1987, My Nine Innings: Memoirs of Lee MacPhail, 1989.

Membership

Member advisory committee National Old-Timers Baseball Classic.

Treasurer, trustee New York Sports Museum and Hall of Fame, since 1989. Member National Academy television Arts and Sciences, Society of America Baseball Research.

Connections

Father:

Irving Appel

Mother:

Celia (Mann) Appel

Spouse:

Lourdes Magbanua

child:

Brian Appel

child:

Deborah Appel