Class is in session: Marty Appel to teach NYU course on Yankees

When 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die came out last year, I had the hopes than in addition to being read just for the sake of reading, it might be incorporated into colleges and high school classes about literature, sports, humanities, etc. I still do and maybe someone out there reading this will think to pass it along to teacher friends and/or others who can make that decision.

With Ira Berkow, center, and Marty Appel at the Yogi Berra Museum.

John Sexton, the outgoing president of New York University (and coauthor of Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game, teaches courses on the national pastime. I would have loved to attend one, but they always seemed to be held on days when the newspaper was going to press.

Marty Appel, veteran PR guy for the NY Yankees and many Jewish sports causes, literally wrote the book on the Bronx Bombers. His Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss was the first definitive history of the team in almost 70 years.

Appel will be teaching this one on days when I can go, so maybe I’ll see you there. (By the way, you don’t have to be an NYU student to sign up.)

 

Class is in session: Marty Appel to teach NYU course on Yankees