Richard Sandomir

Richard Sandomir
Born	(1957-09-04) September 4, 1957 (age 67)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Queens College, City University of New York
Genre	Sports
Notable works	The Pride of the Yankees
Spouse	Griffin Miller

Richard Elliot Sandomir (born September 4, 1957 ^{[1] [2]} ) is an American journalist who is an obituary writer for The New York Times . He wrote about sports, male-pattern hair loss and television; he is the author of several books including Bald Like Me: The Hair-Raising Adventures of Baldman and The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything . ^[3]

Education and family

Sandomir obtained his degree from Queens College, City University of New York. His wife, Griffin Miller, is an artist and writer. ^[4]

Career

Sandomir was a freelance writer and focused his work on sports for a number of publications which include: The New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , the Washington Post , Sports Illustrated , and Sports . He also worked for Sports Inc. as a staff writer, a business reporter for New York Newsday , a staff writer for the Stamford Advocate , and a business writer for Financial World .

Sandomir worked for The New York Times as a television, sports, and business reporter from April 1991 to 2016. ^[5]

Books

• Bald Like Me: The Hair-Raising Adventures of Baldman, Collier Books, 1990, ISBN   9780020366508, OCLC   21376329
• Friendly Persuasion- Putnam, 1990
• The Joy of Baldness: Men With Less Hair and the Women Who Love Them, Spi Books, 1993.
• The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic. Hachette Books. 13 June 2017. ISBN   978-0-316-35516-2. OCLC   958797744

Books with Mark Reiter

• The Final Four of Everything- Simon & Schuster, 2009, ISBN   9781439126080, OCLC   317697822
• The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything. Bloomsbury Publishing. 9 December 2008. ISBN   978-1-59691-947-1.

Books with Rick Wolff

• Don't Worry, Stop Sweating...Use Deodorant- Andrews Mcmeel Pub, 1998, ISBN   9780836265095, OCLC   38410284
• Life for Real Dummies - Perennial, 1996, ISBN   9780060952075, OCLC   59666861 ^[6]

References

1. Heaton, James. "Richard Sandomir Archives". sports.nyhistory.org. New York Historical Society. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
2. "BALD IS BEAUTIFUL, ACTIVIST BOASTS". deseret.com. Deseret News Publishing Company. 29 November 1990. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
3. "Richard Sandomir". Simon & Schuster . Retrieved September 25, 2010.
4. "WEDDINGS; Griffin Miller, Richard Sandomir". The New York Times . October 15, 1995. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
5. "Sandomir looks back on 25 years of sports media memories". www.sportsbusinessdaily.com. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
6. "Richard Sandomir - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 September 2013.

External links

• Richard Sandomir at The New York Times