The View from Pluto: Collected Sportswriting about Northeast Ohio
- ISBN-10
- 1886228620
- ISBN-13
- 9781886228627
- Category
- Newspapers
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-10
- Publisher
- Gray Publishers
- Author
- Terry Pluto
Description
Now in paperback. The best columns from one of Northeast Ohio's most popular sportswriters ever. Terry Pluto has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, has been named Ohio Sportswriter of the Year six times, and has won more than 50 national and state writing awards. This book collects his best Akron Beacon Journal columns about Northeast Ohio sports -- Indians, Browns, Cavs, high school, and more -- from the past decade. It's his first column collection. (He is author of 18 other sports books, including "The Curse of Rocky Colavito.")
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