From SUNY Oneonta To 'The Mick's'

Right-Hand Man And  Baseball Career

By TERESA WINCHESTER • allotsego.com

COOPERSTOWN – "I cried when Babe Ruth died,” declared Marty Appel, prolific writer on sports-related topics, Emmy Award-winning producer, former Yankee public relations director, riveting raconteur, and SUNY Oneonta graduate.

“I was 9 days old,” added the author of the recently published “Pinstripe Empire,” a featured speaker at the Hall of Fame Friday, June 13, as part of the 75th anniversary celebration.  He smiles and so does his audience.

READ AN EXCERPT FROM APPEL'S "PINSTRIPE EMPIRE"

With his broad, never-vanishing grin, a Saint Nick twinkle in his bespectacled eyes and an easy-going manner, Appel comes across as a man who derives great pleasure from his work.

Born in Brooklyn in 1948, Appel nonetheless has strong ties to both Cooperstown and Oneonta.  Like millions of others, he first came to Cooperstown to visit the Hall of Fame in his early teens on a family vacation.