Bob Klapisch

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Roberto Salvador "Bob" Klapisch is a sportswriter for the Newark Star Ledger . He has previously written for The New York Times , New York Post , ESPN, Fox Sports and New York Daily News , and has written six books about baseball including the NYT best seller Inside The Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees. [1] He has been a voting member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America since 1983. [2]

Klapisch was born in New York City and grew up in Leonia, New Jersey, where he attended Leonia High School. He was awarded a bachelor's degree, majoring in political science, from Columbia University, where he played varsity baseball and was sports editor of the university newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator . [1]

In response to his book on the 1992 Mets, The Worst Team Money Could Buy: The Collapse of the New York Mets ( ISBN   0-8032-7822-5), New York Mets outfielder Bobby Bonilla confronted Klapisch in the team's clubhouse, threatening him, and having to be restrained. [3] [4] Klapisch is half-Brazilian and speaks Portuguese fluently.

References

  1. 1 2 Bob Klapisch Archived December 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine , The Record (Bergen County) . Accessed January 3, 2008.
  2. ↑ BBWAA - Badge List Archived July 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine , The Biz of Baseball, posted December 10, 2007. Accessed January 3, 2007.
  3. ↑ Klapisch, Bob (2002-02-26). "1992 taught Mets a chemistry lesson".[ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ Fein, Esther B. (1993-05-17). "Bookseller's Art of the Headlines". The New York Times . Retrieved September 2, 2018.


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