Lest We Forget: Jim Caple

November 15, 2023

R.A. Long alum Jim Caple dies at 61Rough day to report on writers, although this one happened more than a month ago.

Jim Caple, long-time ESPN baseball scribe, died October 1 at the age of 61 after battling ALS and dementia.

Caple covered 20 World Series for ESPN, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. I particularly enjoyed his work on ESPN’s “Page 2,” which took a humorous look at sports.

Here’s the obituary from the Pioneer-Press, with other tributes from uni-watch.com, Steve Rushin at si.com, the New York Post, and sportsbusinessjournal.com, just to include a few.

He published The Devil Wears Pinstripes in 2005. The cover was drawn by Arnold Roth, who was kind enough to render me in the pen and ink portrait used on this site.

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