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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