Lest we forget: Elmore Leonard, baseball fan

August 20, 2013

One of my favorite non-baseball writers passed away this morning.

For all of his quirkiness, Leonard was a solid baseball fan. He even had the privilege of throwing out a first pitch at a Detroit Tigers game in 1999 and was the subject of a chapter in Tom Stanton’s The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark.

Leonard wrote the foreword to ’84: The Last of the Great Tigers–Untold Stories From an Amazing Season, published by Eli Zaret in 2003. He also posted several baseball entries to his own website over the years, including “Elmore takes the Tigers Fan Quiz in honor of the World Series.”

 

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