Terry Pluto





Terry Pluto

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Terry Pluto is a sports columnist for the Plain Dealer. He has twice been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the nations top sports columnist for medium-sized newspapers. He is a nine-time winner of the Ohio Sports Writer of the Year award and has received more than 50 state and local writing awards. In 2005 he was inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame. He is the author of 23 books, including The Curse of Rocky Colavito (selected by the New York Times as one of the five notable sports books of 1989), and Loose Balls, which was ranked number 13 on Sports Illustrateds list of the top 100 sports books of all time. He was called Perhaps the best American writer of sports books, by the Chicago Tribune in 1997. He liv...more


Average rating: 4.01 · 893 ratings · 103 reviews · 31 distinct works
Loose Balls: The Short, Wil...
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
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Curse of Rocky Colavito: A ...
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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The Franchise: Lebron James...
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2007
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False Start: How the New Br...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2004
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Tall Tales: The Glory Years...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
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Our Tribe: A Baseball Memoir
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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When All the World Was Brow...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1997
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Dealing: The Cleveland Indi...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Things I've Learned from Wa...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010
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Browns Town 1964: Cleveland...
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2003
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