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Dan Schlossberg
10 Ballard Place
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
PH. 201-791-3160
FAX: 201-791-3349

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Dan Schlossberg: Baseball Expert

The author of 34 books and over 25,000 articles about baseball, Dan Schlossberg is one of the country's premier baseball experts.  Dan has contributed to Baseball Digest, The Sporting News, MLB.com, the All-Star Game and World Series programs, plus annuals, other publications, and baseball card projects. The former Associated Press sportswriter is managing editor of BallTalk, a syndicated weekly radio baseball show,  contributing editor to XM Satellite Radio's Maggie Linton Show and the Connecticut-based Travel With Kal, and a featured baseball expert on BaseballGuru.com.  
 

"Dan's writing skills and knowledge are key assets that we rely on in producing our publication.  I find him to be thorough in preparation, timely in delivery, and very dutiful in returning a quality product."
Russ Holster, former baseball editor, Petersen's Sports Annual, Los Angeles

BOOKS

Baseball Bits: Best Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Dugout to the Outfield (Alpha Books, 2008)
Baseball Gold:  Mining Nuggets from our National Pastime (Triumph Books, 2007)
Designated Hebrew:  The Ron Blomberg Story (Sports Publishing, 2006)
Making Airwaves:  60 Years at Milo's Microphone (Sports Publishing, 2006)
Miracle Over Miami:  How the Marlins Won the 2003 World Series (Sports Publishing, 2004)
The Golden Age of Baseball (Publications International, 2003)
The Baseball Almanac:  Big Bodacious Book of Baseball (Triumph, 2002)
The New Baseball Catalog (Jonathan David Publishers, 1999)
Baseball:  The Biographical Encyclopedia (Total Sports Illustrated, 2000)
Chipper Jones book and Derek Jeter book (Beckett, 2000)
Players of Cooperstown:  Baseball's Hall of Fame (Publications International, 1998)
The Wit & Wisdom of Baseball (Publications International, 1997)
Total Braves (Penguin, 1996)
Baseball Almanac (Publications International, 1993, 4,5,6,7)
The Baseball IQ Challenge (Contemporary, 1989)
Baseball Stars  (Contemporary, 1987, 1986, 1985)
The Baseball Book of Why (Jonathan David Publishers, 1984)
BasebalLaffs (Jonathan David Publishers, 1982)
*The Baseball Catalog (Jonathan David Publishers, 1975)
Barons of the Bullpen (Tempo, 1975)
Hammerin' Hank: the Henry Aaron Story (Stadia, 1974)
Baseball Stars of 1973, 1974, 1975 (Pyramid)

* Book-of-the-Month Club alternate


Other Baseball Writing


Dan with Warren Spahn

The Baseball Bulletin
Baseball Illustrated (associate editor)
Baseball World
Bill Mazeroski's Baseball (senior editor)
Encyclopedia Americana annual (baseball editor)
Fantasy Baseball
Hemispheres (United Airlines)
Hooters Magazine
Legends Sports Magazine (baseball editor)
MLB.com
The Rookie Report
Sportscan (contributing editor)
Sports Collectors Digest (columnist)
Sports Fan Journal
Street & Smith's Official Baseball Yearbook
Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal (sports travel columnist)
US Airways Magazine
The World Series and All-Star programs
Yankees Magazine
Many team publications

Dan has also written baseball card backs for Donruss, Fleer, Leaf, Pinnacle, the Ted Williams Card Company, Topps and Upper Deck.