The veteran sportswriter for the Philadelphia Daily News for more than 50 years passed away on April 9 at the age of 86. A “celebration of life” service was held on April 12 at the Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park.
I met Hochman in 2012 at a Jewish baseball retreat in Connecticut. He was one of those neat old-school scribes with a thousand stories to tell. Here are some links for your perusal:
- A look back at some of his favorite columns
- An appreciation of his career from Philly.com
- Hochman served as cowriter of another legendary Jewish baseball personality in Max Patkin’s memoir, The Clown Prince of Baseball. Patkin played himself in Bull Durham, perhaps the best baseball feature films of all-time.
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